Ricky Ma

Ricky Ma is Nowcom’s Director of Software Development. Ricky has more than 20 years of experience with information systems in government and industry.

Prior to starting at Nowcom, Ricky spent over 10 years at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, where he last served as Chief of Application Architecture. While at JPL, he led a multi-year effort to successfully revolutionize JPL’s information pipelines and search capabilities. From this, Ricky received national honors and was awarded with NASA’s Exceptional Public Achievement Medal in 2016. Ricky has a Masters of Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology, a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Redlands and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.