Charles Ma
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorCharles Ma is a software engineer with 15 years of experience delivering scalable, high-throughput systems. Based in San Francisco, he currently contributes to Chronosphere’s reliable observability platform, building at-scale tooling that improves monitoring and reliability. Previously at Uber, he served as a Staff Engineer/Tech Lead Manager, leading the service mesh control plane and steering some of the company’s most throughput-intensive services, including a 150k RPS configuration system. His career also spans Facebook and Microsoft, where he worked on Android infrastructure, GraphQL codegen, and frontend UX for large-scale products, giving him a rare blend of backend systems and client-side experience. He launched his career in Australia after earning a BS in Computer Science from UNSW, and has a track record of coaching teams through distributed-systems challenges. He thrives at the intersection of reliability, performance, and developer experience in the San Francisco tech scene.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (39)
detector10
message-passing10
monitoring9
jsonpath9
thrift9
rpc9
goroutine9
protobuf9
grpc9
microservices9
prometheus8
go8
serialization8
observability8
dashboard8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
chucknthem/Data-structures-algorithms
Jun 2010 - Jul 2012
Contributions:35 commits in 2 years 1 month
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