MollyM
Summary
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RockstarMolly Mackinlay is a seasoned technology leader and CEO with 11+ years building product, research, and protocol engineering teams that ship infrastructure-grade distributed systems. She leads development for IPFS and Filecoin at Protocol Labs, powering a community of 10K+ developers and integrations with companies like Microsoft, Cloudflare, Opera, and Ethereum projects. Her work spans protocol design, cryptoeconomics, core proofs, and reference implementations (Lotus), with recent focus on adding programmability to decentralized storage and making large public-data archival easy. A former Google PM who shipped major Search and Classroom features and helped kickstart initiatives that influenced WebAssembly, she blends product instincts with deep systems thinking. She’s passionate about baking individual agency, local-first collaboration, and disaster resilience into the web—practical goals informed by both ethnographic research roots and hands-on protocol engineering.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (176)
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Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
ipfs/roadmap
Dec 2018 - Apr 2022
[ ARCHIVED ] Old IPFS Project && Working Group Roadmaps Repo
Contributions:39 commits, 44 PRs, 67 pushes in 3 years 5 months
ipfs
momack2/personal-website
Feb 2015 - Oct 2024
Contributions:8 PRs, 12 pushes, 8 branches in 9 years 9 months
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