Chris Ma

Registration: 29.05.2025

Specialization: Full Stack Developer

— I am a Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience building full-stack applications, cloud-native systems, and blockchain-based solutions. — Delivered high-performance platforms across EdTech, e-commerce (checkout/payments), digital wallets, and promotional systems—focused on clean architecture, secure development, and scalable design. — My expertise spans Python, JavaScript (ES6+), Golang, and Solidity, with a deep focus on clean architecture, modular system design, and emerging technologies.

Python JavaScript Golang React Solidity

Portfolio

PortfolioInsider

PortfolioInsider is a Saas platform where customers can get great solution for their financial decision, investment from the AI based analysing enging of financial data, stock data from Nasdaq. ● I was a full stack developer in this company, contributed on both of frontend and backend. ● Frontend was built by React/Redux, Ant design and other necessary tools. ● Backend was built by node/express, postgresql, sequelize, websocket, restapi and other bundling, distributing tools. ● We have made great success and the company became one of the fastest growing fintech companies in the United States. ● Have been working from early 2021 to June.

Deadrop

● Recently have been working with Midnight Society as a Game engine developer with Web3 integration. here we built and maintained NFT membership application powering 10,000+ users and developed scalable backend using Hasura + PostgreSQL, integrating GraphQL APIs with serverless functions. ● Also designed CI/CD pipelines and secured architecture across staging, prod, and dev environments. ● Reduced API dev time by 40% through event-driven data syncing we conducted to integrate custom contracts into the Stardust managed system.

Waivlength

Waivlength is a social platform poised to lead the new age of social media to create a safer, more autonomous and user-centric space to connect that is adaptable for the next generation of the internet. ● I am a frontend engineer on this platform responsible for UI design and development, mobile app development using React and React Native.

Skills

Game Development

Backend Development

Blockchain Integration

JavaScript (ES6+)

Golang

Python

Solidity

React

Node.js

Django

Nest

Flask

AWS

Azure

GCP

Heroku

Web3

Smart contracts

DApp

TDD

OOP

Clean code

PCI-compliant systems

Pair/mob programming

Work experience

Game Developer, Web3

04.2022 - 04.2025 |Midnight Society

Game, Web3, Next.js, Node, Hasura, AWS, Microservice, Serverless

At Midnight Society, I spent nearly three years as a backend engineer on the game studio team, where I architected and scaled the backend for the studio’s game platform and launch ecosystem. ● I led the backend design for the DEADROP Founders Pass launch, supporting 10,000 NFT drops and onboarding 400,000+ users in the first week with zero downtime. The platform handled over 700,000 NFT-related operations, peaking at 1,000+ RPS with sub-150ms latency. ● Our event-driven backend—built with Hasura, PostgreSQL, and AWS Lambda—supported features like wallet/email auth, entitlements, payments (Stripe + crypto), and internal ops dashboards. ● After DEADROP's final version launched, the project was sunset, and my contract concluded in March 2025.

Lead Developer

01.2022 - 12.2022 |ESG IMPACT

MERN

● Worked as Lead Developer at an ESG/tech-focused startup committed to uncovering the meaning behind environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics. ● Led the development of the main platform for an ESG/Tech company, utilizing the MERN stack and various tools to create a robust system aimed at delivering impactful insights derived from comprehensive metrics.

Frontend Developer

09.2021 - 04.2022 |Waivlength

React, React Native

● Served as Frontend Engineer at Waivlength, a next-generation social platform focused on creating a safer, more autonomous, and user-centric digital space. ● Led UI design and development for both web and mobile platforms using React and React Native, contributing to a seamless and adaptable user experience aligned with modern web3 and privacy-first principles.

Senior Lead Web Developer

01.2020 - 06.2021 |Abstrakt

React, Angular, Vue, Typescript, Javascript, NodeJS, Laravel, Codeigniter, CakePHP, GitLab, HockeyApp

● Abstrakt is a blockchain as a service startup. My responsibilities at the company include suggesting and reviewing architecture of web applications so that it is very modular and reusable for efficient whitelabel deployments for multiple clients with varying needs. ● I am also responsible for writing code for blockchain integrations and their test cases and closely working with the backend team to ensure that the technology used is best suited for the business use-cases. ● Tools and Technologies: - React, Angular, Vue, Typescript, Javascript. - NodeJS, Laravel, Codeigniter, CakePHP. - GitLab - For SourceControl, CI/CD. - HockeyApp - For crash reporting and internal deployment to optimize delivery of nightly builds

Software Developer

02.2019 - 07.2020 |Scale IT

TypeScript

● Built Algorand-based blockchain migration CLI tool similar to truffle-suite/truffle. ● Developed in TypeScript with a focus on modularity, automation, and open-source contribution.

BackEnd Developer

08.2018 - 04.2019 |Cerealia

Golang, Stellar, ArangoDB, GraphQL, React, Spacemacs, Fully

Via company "Scale it". Development of a trading application that uses blockchain for data logging with integrity and availability improvements. ● Stellar ledger integration. ● Immutable ledger transaction lifecycle development: creation, signing, validation, propagation. ● Design and implementation of ledger account funding, permission and multi-account load-balancing scheme. ● Back-end development with integration tests Golang, Stellar, ArangoDB, GraphQL, React (mobx, flow), Spacemacs, Fully remote.

Software Engineer

10.2016 - 12.2019 |Microsoft

Azure

● FY20 ESI Champion Award: Data Platform. ● Completed many significant projects regarding Full cloud migration and Guided customers to complete digital transformation. ● Published Enterprise Cloud Migration Kit base on Large Cloud Project Accumulation, which includes Playbook,tools and best practice. ● Driving the deployment of the customers’ workloads into Azure and increasing their consumption of the platform by providing deployment guidance, supporting development of the customers’ cloud adoption model, and providing appropriate recommendations to overcome blockers. ● Identifying, validating and growing opportunities to accelerate consumption in high potential partner accounts, in partnership with the sales team, by driving solution architecture for both Microsoft and 3rd party solutions.

Full Stack Engineer

10.2015 - 06.2017 |Swedbank

IBM Java EE 6, Angular 1.5.3; Jenkins CI, API

Migration of features from older back-end code to an open REST API. ● Java back-end development with unit tests. ● Front-end development and improvement of existing components IBM Java EE 6, Angular 1.5.3, Jenkins CI, binary API of deep back-end (written in CL).

Educational background

Computer Science (Bachelor’s Degree)

2006 - 2010

The University of Hong Kong

Languages

EnglishUpper IntermediateCantoneseProficient