Andrew J. Ma
Andrew Ma

Good products.
Great teams.
Meaningful work.

I’m Andrew. Engineering leader with over two decades of experience crafting consumer applications, scaling enterprise services, and building highly effective teams.

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Agent Wrangler at Noösphere Labs — in stealth.

A career in building.

From consumer experiences at Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta to cloud platforms at Google and now Noösphere Labs, my work brings together products, people, and the systems behind them.

Noösphere Labs

Oct 2026 – Present

Agent Wrangler

in stealth

Google

Dec 2021 – Oct 2026
Kirkland, WA

Engineering Manager

Cloud Dataproc & Serverless Spark

  • Led a 34 person team for Core Dataproc Clusters, Serverless Spark and Developer Experiences.
  • Managed cross-org partnership with multiple internal and external teams.
  • Enhanced 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)

Jan 2017 – Dec 2021
Seattle, WA

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.
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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.

2014 – 2017
Seattle, WA

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).
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Earlier chapters — Amazon & Microsoft

Amazon.com

2011 – 2014
Seattle, WA

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

2002 – 2011
Redmond, WA

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.

Built on the side.

Personal projects that make everyday tasks a little easier. I still enjoy getting into the details and building something useful.

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.

View on GitHub

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.

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Where it began.

University of Waterloo

Bachelor of Mathematics in Honours Computer Science

Co-operative Education Program
Waterloo, Ontario
Class of 2002

A couple of inventions.

Client-side predictive caching for content

US 9,544,388 · Issued Jan 10, 2017

Apparatus, system, and method for providing simultaneous delivery of output communications

US 10,666,454 · Issued May 26, 2020

Good work starts
with a conversation.

Have a project in mind, a question about my work, or just want to connect? Send me a note.