About

Brian Ma

I am a software engineer based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. When I was younger, I participated in various programming and math competitions like the ICPC. I majored in computer science and graduated from the University of Toronto in 2023 with a Bachelor of Science degree.

I focused much of my undergraduate studies on math, optimization, and algorithms. At the beginning of my career, I gained experience in developer tooling, web development, and data pipelines and scraping. I shifted focus towards agentic development and gained experience in LLM performance evaluation, agent-driven development, and agentic development tooling. As of late, I can confidently say that agentic development is something that I want to continue being involved in.

In my spare time, I like to be involved in various projects: open source and closed source. From time to time, I would create something that solves a personal problem and then go on to package it into a more comprehensive version for the public and make it open source. An example of this is git-dupe, which was originally a much simpler version used in my personal workflow, now packaged as a comprehensive version control plugin.

I also like tennis, basketball, running, dancing, piano, and learning languages, and a lot of the time when I am not developing, you might find me doing one of these instead.

Contact

If you are interested in working together or have an interesting idea that you want to talk about, you can take a look below (tip: the best and fastest way to reach me would be via email).