Jack Ma

Bold, versatile, and customer-focused Software Engineer

■ Thrives in fast-past, collaborative
environments as both leader and contributor
■ Research experience in file systems,
deduplication, and data compression
■ Wide interests from algorithms to distributed
systems

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Education Publications

B.S., Computer Science-
Mathematics
Harvey Mudd College, Claremont,
CA
Graduated with Distinction in May
2014
Graduated with Honors in CS
Extracting Flexible, Replayable Models from Large Block Traces
In the proceedings of the 10th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technology
Vasily Tarasov, Santhosh Kumar, Erez Zadok (Stony Brook University);
Jack Ma, Geoff Kuenning (Harvey Mudd College);
Dean Hildebrand, Anna Povzner (IBM Almaden)

Work Experience Skills

SDE ■ Launched several browsing engagement experiences for Java, 1 = "I can pick it up again
Mobile
Amazon.com, Inc. Amazon Fashion across Amazon.com. web, quickly"
June 2014 — Present ■ Launched Kindle Bookstore for the Amazon Fire Phone. Spring 5 = "I am awesome at it!"
MVC
■ Led team through development process as scrum master. Languages
■ Spearheaded several hardware and software migration Python
efforts. C++/C
■ Designed and implemented an analysis service to achieve Java
AWS Infrastructure Rails,
Redshift, Ruby
Intern better utilization at lower cost with AWS hardware. S3,
■ Advised Amazon service owners in identifying optimal Haskell
Amazon.com, Inc. RDS
Javascript
May 2013 — August hardware types for their services using this tool.
Scheme
2013
■ Developed a GPU data compression and analysis library to Erlang
Clinic Project Manager CUDA,
C++ Experience
Quantcast Corporation offload computation onto the GPU.
■ Designed and developed several parallel Huffman Full Stack Dev
&
Mobile Web
Harvey Mudd College Encoding algorithms using CUDA framework.
MapReduce (MRJob)
August 2012 — May
Databases
2013
■ Developed a tracker for networked assets on the Hulu Networking
DevOps Intern SNMP,
Rails, Cryptology
Hulu, LLC campus using device locations, user logins, VPN logins, Python,
Assembly Prog.
June 2012 — August and arbitrary data sources. Developed a visualization web MySQL
Benchmark & Traces
2012 application.
■ Integrated a multi-user, privileged, web-based password Relevant Subjects Studied
Algorithms
safe into existing infrastructure.
Concurrency
CS Tutor/Grader & ■ Tutored and graded computer science courses, including Distributed Systems
Staff Algorithms, Distributed Systems, and Programming Machine Learning
Harvey Mudd College Languages. Operating Systems

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 Fall 2010 — Spring 2014 ■ Maintained and managed the department's machine Graph Theory
cluster. Operations Research
Programming Lang.
Research Numerical Analysis
Computer Vision
File Systems & Storage ■ Developed an analysis framework to extract various MapReduce
(MRJob) Combinatorics
Lab characteristics of changes between file system snapshots
Related Subjects Studied
Stony Brook University using MapReduce.
Linguistics
January 2013 — May ■ Researched in collaboration with EMC Corporation.
Quantum Computing
2013
Abstract Algebra
File Systems & Storage ■ Contributed to Trace2Model, a method to compress and C++,
SystemTap, Entrepreneurship
Lab approximate file system traces using modeling. blktrace, Typography
Stony Brook University ■ Developed a set of trace tools for Linux that collect, model, Filebench,
DataSeries Other
June 2011 — October store, and emulate system and I/O traces.
LaTeX
2011 ■ Researched in collaboration with IBM Almaden Research.
MATLAB
Independent Projects Mathematica

Vocabulator ■ Designed and implemented a better way for English instructors Google More about me
App
Dacula High School and students to learn vocabulary. Engine,
Check out
2009, 2010 ■ Provided English instructors an online tool to generate quizzes Java
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and provided students a desktop application to study. They
projects, activities, and
were used weekly by the school's English department.
awards.
Standardized Testing ■ Created a standardized exam environment by limiting the Z80
Assembly
Environment functionality of TI-83/84 family graphing calculators.
Independent Project ■ Developed the environment as a TI-83/84 calculator application
Dacula High School in the Z80 Assembly programming language using hardware
2008 linking protocols, operating system hacks, and remote software
injection. It was deployed and beta-tested.

Leadership and Activities

Engineer Recruiting Interviewed potential software engineers for November 2014 —

Amazon Present
Hardware Manager Managed engineering hardware for Amazon October 2014 —
Fashion Present
Class President Served four years as class president at Harvey Fall 2010 — Spring
Mudd 2014
Director Directed Caltech Harvey Mudd Math Fall 2012
Competition
Representative Computing Committee, Harvey Mudd College Fall 2011
Mathcamp Canada/USA Mathcamp Summer 2009,
Summer 2010
Attended SOSP '11 (Portugal), FAST '12 (San Jose), Turing Celebration '12 (SF), OSDI '12
(Hollywood), NSDI '14 (Seattle)

Recognitions and Awards

Recipient Class of 1994 Prize – Harvey Mudd Computer 2014

Science
Honorable Mention CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher 2013
Dean's List Harvey Mudd College All possible
semesters
Recipient Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award 2008, 2009
Recipient Naval Research Award 2008
1st place Computer Science, Georgia State Science and 2008
Engineering Fair
1st place Computer Science, Gwinnett County Science 2008, 2009
and Engineering Fair

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 Other Activities

Tenor Seattle Pro Musica, Seattle August 2014 —

Present
Tenor Sine Nomine Renaissance Choir, Seattle August 2014 —
Present
Tenor Claremont Concert Choir; Chamber Choir Fall 2010 — Spring
2014
Violinist Claremont Concert Orchestra; Chamber Music Fall 2010
Ensemble
Treasurer Sontag Dorm, Harvey Mudd College Fall 2012 — Spring
2014
Social Sontag Dorm, Harvey Mudd College Fall 2010 — Spring
Representative 2011
Certified Official USSF Grade 8 Soccer Referee Fall 2008 — Spring
2010
Designed and Handcrafted by Jack Ma, 2013-2016.

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