Malcolm Ahoy
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Ripple
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMalcolm Ahoy is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 12 years building configurable, scalable B2B2C web applications, currently shaping engineering at Ripple. He specializes in modern front-end architectures—React, Redux, ES6+/TC39 proposals—and has a track record migrating legacy stacks to robust, testable platforms and build pipelines. Known as a meticulous code historian and reviewer, he emphasizes core concepts, over-communication, and documentation to align distributed teams and accelerate partner integrations. Malcolm has led cross-team standardization efforts, introduced feature-flag driven configurable platforms, and boosted developer productivity with tooling like custom create-react-app forks and Webpack migrations. A former biochemistry major, he brings analytical rigor from scientific research into data-driven UI and API designs. He’s a crypto enthusiast who pairs strong but flexible opinions with active listening to find pragmatic, forward-looking solutions.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biochemistry, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biochemistry at UC Santa Barbara
Github Skills (78)
windows10
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css-loader9
linter9
password-strength9
webpack-loader9
web-audio-api9
password-generator9
react9
ajax9
eslint9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ahoym/PunchStarter
Mar 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:78 commits in 2 months
ahoym/SortingAlgorithms
Apr 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:37 commits in 1 month
compilationpythonsorting-algorithmssorting
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