About

James Maa is a highly skilled Software Engineer with over 6 years of experience in developing and delivering complex software solutions. Currently, he is working as a Software Engineer at Discord, where he is responsible for developing and maintaining the company's core infrastructure. James has a proven track record of delivering high-quality software products that are scalable, reliable, and efficient. Before joining Discord, James worked as a Software Engineer at Scratch, where he was responsible for implementing, testing, and releasing concurrency in the core infrastructure. He expanded the system concurrency level to 30 and expanded the core system capacity by more than 18x. He also delivered multiple mission-critical loan mechanic features like principal disbursements and forbearances on top of a custom-built temporal database with a transaction-log-inspired service handling out-of-order delivery of order-dependent computation, managing $X of debt. James automated multiple manual business operation tasks that saved the company more than 30 hours a week of manual work, including automated onboarding, loan sales, and adjustments. James has also worked as a Software Engineer at Reddit, where he built the campaign management backend from scratch that is the source of truth for tens of thousands of ad campaigns resulting in a X00% increase in revenue from self-service advertisers. He remodeled the payments and delivery data model to stomp out data discrepancies issues that were rampant in the original payment system. The new billing service successfully onboards new advertisers and processes $X of charges every week without any discrepancy issues. James designed and wrote the inventory forecasting service that uses time series ML models to predict inventory used for pacing all of Reddit’s ad campaigns. He also wrote ads-api.reddit.com in Golang. James holds a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a High School degree in Liberal Arts from Palo Alto High School. His technical expertise includes Software Engineering, infra, ML, Golang, and Backend. James is a highly motivated and results-driven individual who is passionate about building innovative software solutions that solve complex business problems.