Summary
Sam Malagon is a CEO & CTO and full-stack software engineer with eight years of experience building cloud-native, containerized systems that blend AI, MLops, GIS, and devops for high-stakes domains. He founded Navfeas to translate military-grade spatial software and real-time decision systems into low-cost tools that accelerate environmental conservation, sustainable fishing, and dynamic ocean management. Technically hands-on, he architects React frontends, NodeJS/Python APIs, microservices with NoSQL, and CI/CD on Jenkins and AWS ECS, while also leading product, client validation, and go-to-market efforts. Prior roles at Booz Allen, Novetta, and the Naval Research Lab involved building sensor-integrated ISR and meteorological pipelines, training RL-style models (MuZero) for autonomous systems, and modernizing cloud and devops practices. Sam pairs an MS in Computational and Applied Mathematics with practical experience deploying geospatial and ML systems in production, and he uniquely applies military spatial analytics to civilian climate and conservation challenges.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Applied Mathematics with a Computer Science minor, Bachelor's degree Applied Mathematics with a Computer Science minor at Claremont McKenna College
Master of Science - MS Computational and Applied Mathematics, Master of Science - MS Computational and Applied Mathematics at Claremont Graduate University
English, Spanish