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The person behind the systems

Curiosity is
the common thread.

Illustrated portrait of Youlong Ma

Youlong Ma / Always learning

I like the part where
the pieces start to fit.

I’m Youlong, a full-stack engineer drawn to challenging problems and the work of turning them into robust software.

My work spans AI-driven education platforms, compiler development, and backend systems. I enjoy moving between the details of an implementation and the larger system it belongs to.

I’m always exploring emerging technologies and sharing what I learn. That curiosity runs through the projects here: agents that teach, tools that retrieve, and systems that make information useful.

A working toolkit

Tools, in context.

The languages, frameworks, and infrastructure I connect to build things.

Frontend

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Tailwind
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Next.js

Backend

  • Node.js
  • Java
  • Spring
  • Go
  • C++
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL

AI & data

  • Python
  • D3.js
  • LangChain
  • LangGraph
  • OpenAI

Infrastructure & tools

  • Docker
  • AWS
  • Git
  • Kubernetes
  • Atlassian
  • Datadog
  • Postman
  • Terraform
Explore my skill connections

An interactive map of the tools I work with. Drag a node to explore its connections.

Read the connections as text
  • yma2022 → Web
  • Web → CSS
  • CSS → Bootstrap
  • CSS → TailwindCSS
  • Web → HTML
  • Web → JavaScript
  • JavaScript → TypeScript
  • JavaScript → Node.js
  • JavaScript → Next.js
  • JavaScript → D3.js
  • JavaScript → Three.js
  • JavaScript → TopoJSON
  • JavaScript → React
  • JavaScript → React Native
  • JavaScript → NPM
  • JavaScript → Yarn
  • yma2022 → Databases
  • Databases → SQL
  • SQL → PostgreSQL
  • SQL → MySQL
  • Databases → NoSQL
  • NoSQL → MongoDB
  • NoSQL → Firebase
  • yma2022 → Tools
  • Tools → Docker
  • Tools → Kubernetes
  • Tools → AWS
  • Tools → CI/CD
  • Tools → Unix/Linux
  • Tools → Git
  • yma2022 → DevOps
  • DevOps → Prometheus
  • DevOps → Metricbeat
  • DevOps → Elasticsearch
  • DevOps → Fluentd
  • DevOps → Kibana
  • yma2022 → Data Analysis
  • Data Analysis → NumPy
  • Data Analysis → Pandas
  • Data Analysis → SciPy
  • Data Analysis → Scikit-learn
  • yma2022 → AI
  • AI → PyTorch
  • AI → Tiktoken
  • AI → OpenAI
  • AI → LangChain
  • AI → LangGraph
  • AI → LangChain4j