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Raymond Ma

Staff Software Engineer (Tech Lead)

Ava Labs / AvaCloud

Los Angeles, CA
10+ years of experience

AI-assisted development at org scale.
Web3 infrastructure. Wallet key management.

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Experience

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Raymond Ma's work experience
ItemCompanyRoleDates
01Ava Labs AvaCloud teamStaff Software Engineer (Tech Lead)Senior Software Engineer, 09/2024 – 06/202607/2026 – Present

Ava Labs, creators of Avalanche. AvaCloud launches and operates dedicated Avalanche L1 blockchains for financial institutions, enterprises, and governments.

  • Grew AvaCloud app-repo contributors from 3 to 10 in under 3 months by making the codebase AI-ready, so designers and other non-engineers could ship production changes with Claude Code. Wrote the AGENTS.md files, rules, skills and orchestrators; led the org-wide Claude Code rollout and gave internal talks on AI-assisted development.
  • Built a custom automated CI code reviewer, self-hosted on AWS Bedrock. It checks security issues and cross-app impact in the monorepo, and updates its review in place instead of piling new comments on the PR.
  • Sole developer of Wallet-as-a-Service key management, built on Cubist (CubeSigner), used by large enterprise clients and banks running Avalanche-powered L1s.
  • Owned the AvaCloud monorepo that apps and services share code through; moved Explorer, Cloud Portal and Bridge to automated, versioned releases with release-please.
  • Product work on validator management and SETTL, a privacy-preserving wallet.

TypeScript / Go / React / Connect RPC

02Rena LabsTechnical Advisor07/2025–07/2026

Advised on architecture for Addys, a proactive meeting agent (Electron, Composio), and anomaly detection for Insider Cash.

03LIQ AuctionsCo-Founder & CEO06/2023–05/2024

On-chain auction protocol and auction house for tokenized physical collectibles and NFTs.

  • Deployed a suite of auction smart contracts on mainnet that processed over $1M USD in total on EVM chains.
  • Built a hybrid auction-lending protocol that gives sellers instant liquidity for illiquid long-tail assets.
  • Selected for Outlier Ventures x Polygon Basecamp with $100K in funding.
04PlugdCTO09/2019–06/2023

Social sneaker aggregator.

  • Designed an ETL process handling 200K+ sneaker data records daily, getting past Cloudflare and PerimeterX bot protection.
  • Grew to 100K+ iOS and Android installs organically through self-made TikTok videos and App Store Optimization.
  • Helped close the pre-seed round with angel investors.
05CENTLead Engineer10/2018–10/2019

Platform that brokered the sale of Jack Dorsey's first tweet for $2.9M.

  • Drove a test-driven workflow that took core smart contract test coverage from 0% to 100%.
  • Built the seeding UI that let users invest in creators via microtransactions on Ethereum.
06Engagio Acquired by DemandbaseSoftware Engineer10/2016–10/2018
  • Improved UI performance up to 400% in some areas by cutting wasted React renders.
  • Won two company hackathons (Q4 2016 most creative: email sentiment analysis; Q2 2017 overall: SMS cloud step).
07AssemblyEngineer04/2016–10/2016
  • Computer vision and deep learning projects (e.g. OCR of digital displays in photos); built a gRPC Python API server for the mobile client (protobuf over JSON sped up encode/decode and cut mobile battery use).
08AvisoSoftware Engineer02/2015–04/2016
  • Predictive sales analytics; built interactive D3.js charts reused by other devs and shipped in the client-facing app.

Independent builds

Side projects

Kleido

04/2026–presentkleidoprint.com

I built Kleido for my dad's print shop. Paste any website URL; Kleido extracts the site's visual system, composes a two-sided business card you can flip, edit and regenerate, then order printed cards.

I built it solo with AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex): Claude-driven layout, Stripe checkout and print fulfillment.

Next.js / Convex / Playwright / pdf-lib

Meemes

Launched 01/2026meemes.fun

Free AI face-swap meme and GIF generator: pick a meme or GIF, upload a face, download and share.

Solo build: TanStack Start (React 19), tRPC, Bun, Postgres, multi-model pipeline with serverless GPU face swap (RunPod), Expo mobile app.