Malachi De Ælfweald
Staff Software Engineer (Java Libraries) at Chainguard
Gladstone, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolMalachi De Ælfweald is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building production-grade Java and Android systems and founding multiple software ventures. Currently on the Java Libraries team at Chainguard, he focuses on delivering hardened, secure open-source builds that reduce risk for organizations and AI workflows. He has deep Android and tooling expertise—his contributions to the well-known simpligility/android-maven-plugin improved native library resolution and NDK integration—and has led platform modernization efforts at TextNow including migration to Kotlin, Coroutines, Jetpack Compose, and CI/CD with GitHub Actions. A pragmatic technical leader and founder, he blends hands-on engineering, cross-functional collaboration (iOS, backend, SRE), and vendor negotiation experience. Based in Gladstone, Oregon, he pairs a long history of embedded and enterprise systems work with a knack for turning complex build/tooling problems into repeatable, secure processes.
13 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., IDS: Computers, Psychology, Writing, B.A., IDS: Computers, Psychology, Writing at Southern Oregon University
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Github Skills (12)
maven10
android-ndk10
javas10
native-library10
android10
java10
build-automation8
http6
eclipse6
google-play6
android-viewpager6
aar6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
simpligility/android-maven-plugin
Mar 2014 - Sep 2014
Maven Plugin for Android Application development and more
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:12 commits, 11 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Malachi primarily focused on improving the native library handling within the Android Maven plugin. Their contributions included modifying the `NativeHelper`, `NdkBuildMojo`, and `ApkMojo` classes to correctly resolve and include native dependencies. They also addressed transitive dependency issues related to native libraries and updated the tooling support, including the Android NDK integration. Additionally, they made changes to sample projects to ensure they were working correctly.
android-applicationmaven-plugin
textnow/vessel
Sep 2020 - Jul 2022
Contributions:36 reviews, 19 commits, 47 PRs in 1 year 10 months
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