Hello, I'm
Andrew J. Ma.
Engineering leader with over two decades of experience crafting consumer applications, scaling enterprise services, and building highly effective teams.
Product Passion
Deep passion for building great products from end-user consumer applications to complex enterprise software and scalable services.
Team Growth
Proven excellence in building, leading, and mentoring highly effective engineering teams, both locally and across remote geo-locations.
Execution Bias
Strong track record of creative problem-solving, data-driven decision making, and an unrelenting bias for action to deliver customer value.
Career Trajectory
Engineering Manager Cloud Dataproc & Serverless Spark
- Leading a 34 person team for Core Dataproc Clusters, Serverless Spark and Developer Experiences.
- Manage cross-org partnership with multiple internal and external teams.
- Enhancing existing Spark platform on GCP for AI and ML workloads.
- Launched 3P plugins for Spark integration into Jupyter, Vertex AI, Colab notebooks & VS Code.
Facebook (Meta)
Engineering Manager AR / VR
- Launched Facebook’s first voice assistant in the first consumer device: Portal, bringing a richer video calling experience.
- Cross-functional owner for the “Hey Portal” assistant; integrated NLP/AI from research into Portal and Oculus VR headsets.
- Led delivery of unannounced AR and VR products while managing broad partner relationships globally.
Engineering Manager Facebook App
- Led expansion of the engineering team focused on confidential product initiatives across the Facebook ecosystem.
- Created direction, built product, and executed the global launch for the new Visual Polls feature.
Groupon Inc.
Director of Engineering Global Mobile Consumer Platform
- Managed 36 engineers and managers across 6 teams building the core consumer mobile experience for Groupon (Android and iOS).
- Broke into comScore’s top 25 mobile apps in 2016 (#2 in retail category).
Director of Engineering Things-to-do & Getaways
- Built an organization of 22 engineers across 4 teams for the Things-to-do and Getaways businesses, spanning Seattle and NYC.
- Built 3rd party integration platform partnering with Ticketmaster, tickets.com and Telecharge for event vendor onboarding.
Senior Mobile Engineering Manager Getaways Mobile
- Built v1 Getaways Android and iOS app powering a $300M+ business unit.
- Led standardization of common mobile libraries across Groupon apps (Android/iOS).
Amazon.com
Software Development Manager Amazon Prime Video
- Led the Core Mobile Platform team providing base Android components for Amazon Prime Video (network, caching, auth, metrics).
- Led a cross-organization effort to integrate Amazon Video into the Amazon Shopping app.
Software Development Engineer Amazon Instant Video
- Senior leader on Amazon Prime Video's Android team, launching on 3 generations of tablets, 3 TV platforms and 2 phone platforms.
- Designed and implemented flagship features: ASAP (Advanced Streaming and Prediction) and X-Ray.
- Technical lead for Amazon Video on Google TV and integration into Amazon Shopping app; led cross-org technical architecture.
- Technical lead for two additional unannounced cross-division projects.
Microsoft Corporation
Senior Software Engineer Manager Xbox LIVE Publishing (2008-2011)
- Technical Lead for the publishing portal powering $2B/year of content from developer to marketplace.
- Led a 10-person team to replace 120+ tools and 12 content types into one streamlined pipeline for Xbox LIVE.
Software Engineer Manager Bing Search (2006-2008)
- Managed a 4-person team developing the Structured Data Pipeline ingesting millions of items via XML feeds into the search index daily.
- Technical Lead for the Quality Scorecard across the entire Bing Search organization, measuring and reporting overall engineering health.
Software Engineer Office InfoPath & MSN Shopping (2002-2006)
- Area Owner for XML feed ingestion system handling 50+ million products at MSN Shopping.
- Published multiple whitepapers and technical blogs for Microsoft Office InfoPath.
Education
Waterloo, Ontario | Co-operative Education Program
Patents
Personal Projects
Family Calendar
A self-hosted web app that unifies multiple Google Calendars into one clean weekly view. Features family member profiles, hashtag filtering, Presentation Mode for weekly planning, and full privacy — all in a single Docker container.
Auto Work Log
A Chrome extension that automatically tracks time spent on Google Docs and web-based tools. Provides daily summaries with per-document time and visit counts, one-click export to Google Sheets, and customizable URL rules with regex patterns.