# Xuezhou Ma

> large-scale distributed system, server backend, big data analytics, data pipeline, modeling and algorithms, video streaming, networks and software development.

Location: Fremont, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/xuezhou

Areas of interest: credit risk, credit underwriting, video streaming, big data analytics, data pipeline, large-scale distributed system, server backend, modeling and algorithms, networks, and software development.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Affirm
Jan 2021 – Present
Build a robust, scalable, and user-centric Credit Underwriting Platform that enables Affirm's long-term economically viable growth.  Our platform serves as a central hub for the BNPL business, utilizing numerous factors from credit, risk, fraud, compliance, and ML domains to make real-time decisions on user applications.

### Staff Software Engineer @ Zoom Video Communications
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Jose, California, United States
Drive the development of server-backend of Zoom AsyncComm platform from zero to one
-- API planning, distributed system design and code implementations
-- Deep dive into system performance, resilience, storage and scalability issues

### Software Engineer @ Uber
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Build a complete data platform for Uber's AI-powered bug reporting and triage system including all key features:
-- issue collection, metadata logging, and file uploading at client-side
-- severity assessment, category match, owner identification, similarity grouping, ticket creation and analysis dashboards at server-side

### Full Stack Engineer @ Conviva
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
At Conviva, we collect QoE and engagement data across 2.5 billion globally distributed users and devices, and process and analyze over 50 experience metrics in real-time.

Conviva Ad Insights - AI Alerts
-- End-to-end owner accountable for overall product planning, resource allocation, API design, risk management, timely execution, release quality and successful completion of the project

### Senior Software Engineer @ Conviva
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Foster City, CA
-- Build data pipeline to automatically clean, verify, consolidate, and analyze data from different internal and external sources
-- Design advanced models to detect anomalies and diagnose bottleneck elements from several millions of concurrent sessions
-- Initiate data analysis and create metrics that correlate performance with customer engagement

### Senior System Software Engineer @ NVIDIA
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 | Santa Clara, CA
-- Video streaming pipeline from server backend to client device, e.g., TV box and Android console
-- Streaming Quality of Experience (QoE) over dynamic network condition of WIFI and LTE networks.
-- Adaptive streaming algorithms for gameplay and other latency-sensitive applications, e.g., dynamic bit rate control,  real-time resolution adjustment and Forward Error Correction (FEC).

-- Automated video streaming test framework with network simulator 

-- High Dynamic Range (HDR) for game streaming.

-- High-throughput distributed server design with load balancing


## Education
### Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Computer Science
North Carolina State University

### Master of Engineering (MEng) in Electrical Engineering
The City College of New York

### Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
Xi'an Jiaotong University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/xuezhou-ma-61681064

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Last updated: 2026-04-12