Hello, I am Brian Ma.  I work for Zillow under the official title "Ruler of Awesome". (I was recently promoted from "Director of Awesome" though this self promotion netted me nothing more than a slight increase in awesomeness. Unfortunately, no pay raise.)

 

When I'm not sitting at my Ikea lamp illuminated desk decorated with various incarnations of jungle plants and tiger figures thinking about the next cool feature we're going to build for you, I can usually be found at Zillow jamming on Guitar Hero, slamming in ping pong, and winning in Foosball. But... most of the time, I'm just goofing off:

 

My PM buddies (From left to right: Beau, Me, Martin, Brandon) in our various tiger poses in our office

In my spare time not at work, I like to think about startup ideas, pretend like I know how to play the guitar, code the next generation stock market exploitation tool, and of course, write specifications on how to take over the world.

 

Aside from Zillow, I'm also a real estate agent and got my license in order to better understand the industry so I can think up of more cool things to build to make things more efficient.  I'm also a real estate investor on the side, so if anyone has some interesting deals, contact me!  =)

If you're still reading this, you're either really bored or think I'm awesome. If it's the latter, then you're now worthy to join my fan club (Currently: Population Zero) by Contacting Me. Sorry, I'd love to add you as a friend, but we don't have a friends feature... yet... what kind of stupid Program Manager decided not to build in a friends feature into this Profile? Oh wait... that's me.

This list should suffice for now...

My Friends
My Boss: http://www.zillow.com/profile/Andy
My Bigger Boss: http://www.zillow.com/profile/Rich-Barton
Mr. President: http://www.zillow.com/profile/Lloyd-Frink
Coolest CTO ever: http://www.zillow.com/profile/David
My PM Tiger counterpart: http://www.zillow.com/profile/Daniel
Guitar Hero buddie: http://www.zillow.com/profile/BillN
There's no "we" in Awesome: http://www.zillow.com/profile/GoSun
PM Fan #1!: http://www.zillow.com/profile/Rebekah
The "Vicious" Tiger in photo: http://www.zillow.com/profile/martin
"Make things Usable" Hernan: http://www.zillow.com/profile/hernan