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Rachel Ma

First gen kid that's lived in 12 cities across 4 continents. Now in NYC building early stage products in emerging tech spaces. Say hi.

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Building the software platform for Meta's next-gen AI devices.

Professional

Applied AI

OCR

Guided model investment for “text-in-the-wild” on AR glasses, partnering with ML researchers to raise egocentric OCR accuracy from 26% to 39%. Defined target use cases and model gaps (text grouping and ordering, intent disambiguation) to prioritize investments.

Translate

Prototyped multimodal Live Translation on AR glasses, turning egocentric OCR and hand disambiguation research into a product experience.

Introduced Meta AI natural-language voice commands across first-party VR apps, defining a new hands-free interaction model for the surface.

Developer Platform

File Picker

Opened the Files platform through a File Picker API, adopted across first-party apps and available to third-party developers.

Negotiated the Google Drive partnership behind cloud drive access in Files, from first conversation through shipped integration and annual review.

Aligned orgs to share third-party integrations including Google Drive and Calendar, unlocking access for smart glasses and Meta's AI agent, Hatch.

App Portfolio

Files

Launched the zero-to-one Files platform to 1M+ monthly users: previews, cross-app sharing, and cloud drive access.

Calendar

Built the zero-to-one Calendar platform, a schedule manager with Google Calendar and Outlook integrations and a Zoom partnership.

Scaled Camera and Gallery into a capture-to-share content flywheel spanning the family of first-party apps, including Instagram and Threads.

Defined the OS-level copy/paste and drag-and-drop model for cross-app multitasking, and drove adoption across 9 first-party apps.