Andrew J. Ma
Engineering leader with over two decades of experience crafting consumer applications, scaling enterprise services, and building highly effective teams.
CHARACTER STATS
ENGINEERING
24+ years of software engineering across web, mobile and backend services
LEADERSHIP
20+ years building and leading highly effective engineering teams both local and remote
AR / VR / MOBILE
Strong delivery of multiple AR, VR & mobile experiences across Android and iOS
EXECUTION
Creative problem solving, data driven decisions, and strong bias for action
QUEST LOG
GOOGLE
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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).
- 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.
- Built v1 Getaways Android and iOS app powering a $300M+ business unit.
- Led standardization of common mobile libraries across Groupon apps (Android/iOS).
AMAZON
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- Area Owner for XML feed ingestion system handling 50+ million products at MSN Shopping.
- Published multiple whitepapers and technical blogs for Microsoft Office InfoPath.
TRAINING
UNLOCKABLES
SIDE QUESTS
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.