BJ Malicoat
Software Engineer at Meta
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBJ Malicoat is a software engineer with a decade of experience building immersive, production-ready experiences across AR/VR, mobile games, and scalable backend services. Currently at Meta working on AR glasses, he has previously led technical teams at Microsoft and partnered with Niantic to prototype a geolocated AR title, blending product vision with hands-on architecture. As an independent founder he shipped multiple featured mobile games and built Rust-backed collaboration and iOS widget tooling deployed to hundreds of teams, showing a strong streak of solo productization. Known for rapid prototyping and mentoring, he turns prototypes into partnerships and shipped products—often using novel stacks like Rust plus native iOS widget standards. Based in Redmond, he pairs platform-level systems thinking with a game-dev sensibility that surfaces creative, user-facing solutions.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Michigan State University
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Github Skills (13)
galaxy10
iphone9
memory-management6
objective-c6
mkmapview6
nsstring6
xcode6
quicktime6
nsdatepicker6
cocoa-touch6
mapkit6
microsoft6
cocoa6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
microsoft/GalaxyExplorer
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Galaxy Explorer is the application Microsoft is building as part of the Share Your Idea campaign.
Contributions:11 commits, 2 pushes, 2 comments in 8 days
galaxymicrosoftexplorershareidea
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