# Robert Ma

> Software Engineer passionate about infrasturcture, tooling, etc.

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/robertma

A.k.a. Hexcles on forums and social media.

Code is poetry.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Faire
Jan 2022 – Present
Platform team

### Senior Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2017 – Jan 2022 | Kitchener, Canada Area
Worked on some Infra/EngProd projects at
* Chrome (web-platform-tests, wpt.fyi, ChromeDriver, etc.)
* Fuchsia (alerting, end-to-end testing, etc.)

### Software Engineering Intern @ Google
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Mountain View, California
Front-end development at Google Hotel Search

### Software Engineer Intern @ Arista Networks
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Kernel team summer co-op

* Implemented a Kdump-based crash dumping facility in Arista EOS to help debug kernel panics
* Built infrastructure for system crash reporting and analyzing, and deployed it on all internal servers
* Proposed a new building mechanism for cross-compiled packages based on Fedora mock
* Also worked extensively with the internal tool team on improvements and bug fixes

### Backend Developer, Deputy Director of Tech Dept. @ Qiu Shi Chao Website
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014
The official student website of Zhejiang University

PHP development:
- Box, a short-term file sharing system (hash-based object storage; also built the frontend)
- Notice, a student activity hub (RESTful APIs powering a Single-Page App)
- Several small CMS and voting systems

System administration:
- Unified scattered servers into an identical virtualized infrastructure and implemented various automation systems
- Mitigated several network attacks along with university IT and enforced better security practice

Leadership:
- Led a development team of more than a dozen students, carried out training, and coordinated multiple web/mobile projects


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Simon Fraser University

### Master's Degree in Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Zhejiang University

### Fuzhou No.1 Middle School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/hongpuma
- Portfolio: https://blog.robotshell.org/
- GitHub: https://github.com/Hexcles/

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Last updated: 2026-04-12