Malcolm Clottey

Projects

Madefor — Full-Stack Jewelry E-Commerce Platform

May 2026 – Present · Project Lead

$0/month recurring cost

Three-service architecture (storefront, admin panel, REST API) deployed at $0/month recurring cost. Dual payment gateways (Paystack, Stripe) with webhook-based async confirmation, JWT auth with refresh-token rotation, and server-side cart validation to prevent overselling.

• React
• Node/Express
• Prisma
• PostgreSQL

Live demo

Global Remote Compliance & Salary Index

Jul 2026 – Present · Full-Stack Engineer

6,000+ pages, sub-150ms loads

B2B data index engine generating 6,000+ programmatic pages via static site generation, achieving sub-150ms page loads and strong SEO indexing. PostgreSQL schema mapping cross-border tax brackets, mandatory benefits, and salary percentiles across 150 countries with zero data redundancy.

• Next.js
• PostgreSQL

Hybrid Algorithmic & AI-Based Timetabling System

Jan 2025 – Apr 2025 · Project Lead — Ashesi University

483 sessions across 20 rooms in under 30 seconds

Scheduling engine using greedy and genetic algorithms assigning 483 sessions across 20 rooms in under 30 seconds. Five Dockerized services deployed via CI/CD with 100% uptime, monitored with Prometheus and Grafana.

• Python
• Flask
• MySQL
• Docker
• AWS EC2

Live demoRepository

Real-Time Fraud Detection Platform

98.65% accuracy, 0.9987 AUC

Flask microservice scoring transactions in real time via XGBoost. SMOTE/ADASYN class balancing, containerized with NGINX and health checks, 99.67% uptime.

• Flask
• XGBoost
• SMOTE
• ADASYN
• NGINX
• Docker

Repository

Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning Microservice

Healthcare federated learning platform enabling collaborative model training without sharing raw patient data. Flower, PyTorch, differential privacy via Opacus, containerized as gRPC microservices with Docker.

• Flower
• PyTorch
• Opacus
• Docker
• gRPC

Live demoRepository

Emotion-Adaptive AI Interface

A browser-only facial-emotion detector that retunes a chat interface's gradient, motion, and tone in real time — proving 'emotion-aware' doesn't require sending anyone's face to a server.

• React
• TypeScript
• Vite
• Framer Motion
• MediaPipe
• Node.js
• Express
• Gemini API
• MongoDB Atlas
• Vercel
• Render

Repository

Multi-Vendor Thrift Store Mobile App

• Flutter
• Firebase

Cryptocurrency Price Prediction

• Python
• Flask
• LSTM

AI Food Waste Reduction System

• React
• Python
• Flask
• PostgreSQL
• Docker

Seed For Change

• JavaScript
• PHP
• MySQL

Business Management System & DBMS Projects

• MySQL
• TSQL/SQL
• Streamlit
• Docker

Moneta

• Dart
• Flutter
• PHP
• MySQL

MaloTravel

• Flutter
• Dart

Roommate Finder

• JavaScript
• PHP
• MySQL

Experience

1. Jun 2026 – Present

   AI Document Intelligence Extern

   Extern, Inc. (in partnership with Pfizer) · Remote

   • Built AI pipelines processing pharmaceutical vendor files using OCR (Tesseract, PaddleOCR) and RAG for extraction and classification.
   • Developed a RAG-based document retrieval system with LlamaIndex, optimized with chunk tuning and open-source LLMs (Mistral, Phi-2).
   • Benchmarked OCR accuracy, RAG retrieval quality, and routing performance; delivered a technical report on trade-offs and deployment recommendations, and built a demo UI.

2. Mar 2026 – May 2026

   AI Extern

   Extern, Inc. (in partnership with Wayfair) · Virginia

   • Built AI agents with n8n automating trend detection, competitor tracking, and marketing content generation across the home goods sector.
   • Tracked competitor pricing and campaigns via JavaScript web-scraping scripts feeding structured insights into pricing strategy.
   • Built a live-updating Google Sheets dashboard (React + Apps Script) surfacing AI-generated trend signals and competitive benchmarks.

3. Jul 2025 – Sep 2025

   Software Developer Intern

   Tyncad Software Company

   • Engineered full-stack improvements to a live Django/JavaScript platform, integrating redesigned UI with dynamic backend endpoints.
   • Refactored front-end assets and minimized HTTP payloads, reducing load times by approximately 40%.

Leadership

• Project Manager · Research Club, Ashesi University

  Jul 2023 – Oct 2023

  Led 40+ members, organized research conferences and workshops, managed executive board operations.

• Member · Google Developer Student Club

  2023

Skills

Education & Certifications

• M.S. Computer Science — Engineering for Professionals

  Johns Hopkins University

  Expected 2028

• BSc Computer Science

  Ashesi University College

  Jan 2022 – Jun 2025

• AWS Certified Developer – Associate

  Amazon Web Services

  Sep 2025 – Sep 2028