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Shunzhe Ma (马舜喆)

[email protected] mszpro.com linkedin.com/in/mszpro WeChat: @MszWechat

TL;DR
  • Apple internships ’19 & ’20 (Apple Vision Pro Team / TDG) — showcased intern project to Apple VP Mike Rockwell; received an outstanding manager review (Results: Exceeded) and a LinkedIn recommendation from mentor.
  • Indie — 75+ apps; SoraSNS featured by TechCrunch and on App Store story (“Check out our favorites”); 3D Scanner 40k+ global downloads; invited to Mozilla Firefox logo Mozilla Firefox Podcast.
Experience

Founder & Indie Software Engineer — Smart Soft K.K. (Apr 2021 – Present · Kyoto/Osaka, JP)

  • Shipped 75+ apps/games across iOS/iPadOS/visionOS; full-stack.
  • SoraSNS — multi-network Fediverse client with local ML “For You” timeline; featured by TechCrunch and on App Store story (“Check out our favorites”).
  • 3D Scanner — 40k+ downloads; used by an art museum in Florence to scan student sculptures.
  • Vision Pro projects — escape-room puzzle MR game, appeared on Apple WWDC keynote slide.
  • World Expo 2025 (Osaka) — approved exhibitor; live demos of Vision Pro & AR titles.

Apple — Software Engineer Intern, VisionOS team (TDG) (2020 · Cupertino, CA · remote)

  • Cross-org collaboration; proposed key approaches; delivered working demo solo.
  • Direction later reflected in RealityKit.

Apple — Software Engineer Intern, VisionOS team (TDG) (2019 · Cupertino, CA)

  • Only freshman intern; AR related prototypes & cloud services & os related.
  • Presented and showcased to SVP Mike Rockwell (best-presentation recognition).
Selected Projects
  • SoraSNS icon SoraSNS — Fediverse client (Mastodon/Misskey/Bluesky) with local ML “For You” (Apple Intelligence “For You” timeline); featured by TechCrunch.
  • 3D Scanner icon 3D Scanner — On-device photogrammetry; 40k+ downloads; used by an art museum in Florence, Italy.
  • Spatial Escape icon Spatial Escape (visionOS) — Escape from a phone booth immersive MR game, appeared on slide of WWDC; hand tracking powered puzzle.
  • Pixel Ninja icon Pixel Ninja (AR) — AI vision tracks both hands; golden shield in hand to catch coins in AR gameplay.
  • Yoyatta — Calendar scheduling app; backend built with serverless TypeScript functions.
Referrals

Pranav Saxena

June 11, 2020 · LinkedIn recommendation — mentor during Apple internship 2019 (TDG team)

“I was involved in hiring and mentoring Shunzhe as part of his summer internship program at Apple for 3 months. Shunzhe exhibits extra ordinary capabilities of doing things insanely fast. He has an amazing skill to convert ideas into code really fast corroborated by his high and jovial energy levels. Under my mentorship, he explored areas in building AR applications, wrote cloud services, understanding ML models to perform real time remote inferencing. He also won the best project presentation award by the senior management and got an opportunity to present his work to VP's at Apple. I was grateful to have Shunzhe as part of my team at Apple and wish him good luck for future endeavors. Any company would be lucky to have a talent like him.”

Caro, Perry A.

Manager review — Apple internship 2019

“Shunzhe, delivering amazing results is where you really exceeded this summer. You challenged us to keep your work task list full, as you finished complex and difficult work very quickly, much more quickly that I expected for a sophomore undergrad, and the work you produced was pretty solid. You routinely beat your deadlines, even when we gave you more and more responsibilities and difficult tasks. You also showed your attention to detail and focus on doing things ‘the Apple Way’ in everything that you did.”

Skills

iOS Apps: 75+ shipped indie apps/games • 50k+ worldwide downloads • SwiftUI • Cloud • CoreML • ARKit • Objective-C • Swift • Python

Backend: Serverless TypeScript, AWS, Azure, • Linux • REST/GraphQL APIs • CI/CD • Performance/Profiling (Instruments) • Swift on server

Practices & Communication: Public speaking — Mozilla Firefox logo Mozilla Firefox Podcast guest; Expo 2025 Osaka presentations • Git • Code review • Testing

Education

Carnegie Mellon University — Electrical & Computer Engineering (2018–2022)
15-112 (Fundamentals; Best Project – macOS simulator in Python) • 15-122 (Data Structures) • 15-213 (Computer Systems) • 15-441 (Computer Networks) • 18-330 (to Computer Security) Completed junior curriculum; Computer Science Independent Study

Stanford University (Summer Session) — Computer Science (4.0) (2017)
Programming Methodology (A); Maintenance of Genome (A)

Honors
  • Apple WWDC Scholarship — 2017 & 2018 (1 of 350 global scholars participated in San Jose)
  • SoraSNS featured on App Store Japan story (“Check out our favorites”)
  • Invited to showcase at Japan World Expo 2025 (Osaka, Kansai)
Certs
  • Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), issued 2022 (valid through 2025)
  • Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA), issued 2022 (valid through 2025)
Lang
English (Native level) • Japanese (Conversational) • Chinese (Native level)