Malte Ahrens
Undergraduate Researcher
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMalte Ahrens is an interdisciplinary researcher and technologist with a decade of experience blending software engineering, economic research, and innovation program leadership. Based in Cambridge, MA and trained in Mathematical Economics at MIT, he studies supply chains, welfare, and migration economics while building web and mobile products using Vue, React, and Flutter. He founded and scaled MIT’s UA Innovation Committee—leading a 30-person team, a sizable operating budget, and campus-wide initiatives that launched new funds and student programs—demonstrating rare product-ownership skills in an academic setting. His international development work at the World Bank and field research across Tanzania reflect a pragmatic focus on data-driven public service and community impact. Equally comfortable prototyping hardware experiments (high-altitude weather balloons) and shipping front-end applications, he brings a maker’s curiosity to rigorous social-science questions. Colleagues turn to him to connect technical execution with human-centered policy and institutional change.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mathematical Economics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mathematical Economics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyTrinity Grammar School, KewThe University of Melbourne
English, German, French
Stackoverflow
66reputation
10kreached
5answers
2questions
Github Skills (112)
xbox10
cut10
video-processing10
editor10
audio10
android-widget10
ffmpeg10
knife10
openexr10
editing10
mp410
codec10
player10
multimedia10
lossless10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
InsureBlox/chainlink-hackathon
Nov 2021 - Dec 2021
Parametric insurance solution for vessels going through rough seas based on Blockchain technology and enabled by Chainlink
Contributions:3 reviews, 65 commits, 8 PRs in 14 days
pythonethereumchainlinkroughhardhat
malte1989/cropper
Feb 2017 - Dec 2020
Contributions:1 push, 3 branches in 3 years 10 months
widgetrotatingandroidandroid-widgetcropping
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