Molly Mackinlay

Molly Mackinlay leads Protocol Labs R&D and FilOz, coordinating research, product development and Filecoin’s onchain cloud infrastructure. Earlier at Google, she worked on Search, Forms and Classroom, bringing a product focus to open, verifiable computing.

Career

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Elsewhere

FilOz

Apr 2024 — Present

Chief Executive Officer

Filecoin

Jun 2020 — Present

Network Leader

Protocol Labs

Sep 2018 — Present

Head of R&D

Google

Google Search PM II
Mar 2017 — Aug 2018
Associate Product Manager - Native Client
Sep 2013 — Aug 2014
Associate Product Manager Intern
Jun 2012 — Sep 2012
Switzerland
Software Engineer Intern
Jun 2011 — Sep 2011

ACM, Association for Computing Machinery

Feb 2013 — Jun 2013

CHI 2013 Publicity Coordinator

Stanford University

Jan 2013 — Mar 2013

CS 247 Teaching Assistant

PARC

Mar 2011 — Sep 2011

Research Assistant

Microsoft

Jun 2010 — Sep 2010

PM in Shared Operations Business Management

Stanford University

Computer Science

Products & media

medium.com

What FilOz learned from shipping an onchain cloud

Molly, Jennifer Wang and James Bluett review FilOz’s 2026 progress and the practical work behind adoption: developer tooling, provider operations, reliable storage and measurable service delivery. The report separates shipped work from the team’s remaining priorities.

thedefiant.io

Reclaim the Cloud, Onchain

In this essay presented by Filecoin Foundation, Molly argues for cloud infrastructure developers can inspect, program and verify. She connects her product experience with a case for composable services and reducing dependence on opaque infrastructure.

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Molly Mackinlay

FilOz

Filecoin

Protocol Labs

Google

Google Search PM II

Associate Product Manager - Native Client

Associate Product Manager Intern

Software Engineer Intern

ACM, Association for Computing Machinery

Stanford University

PARC

Microsoft

Stanford University

Products & media

What FilOz learned from shipping an onchain cloud

Reclaim the Cloud, Onchain

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