Rick Ahlf

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About Rick Ahlf

Rick serves as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of 6–4–3 Charts, which he co-founded in 2017. At 6–4–3, he oversees the end-to-end development and delivery of their diamond sports video and data analytics platform. He guides the technical direction of all 6–4–3 products from back-end infrastructure to front-end UI/UX design, maintains the 6-4-3 API and leads all technical integration efforts with strategic technology and media partners, including: • MLB League Office & Clubs | NCAA/NAIA Baseball & Softball • ESPN | MLB Network | D1Baseball.com | D1Softball.com • Synergy Sports | AWRE Sports | Prep Baseball Report • Trackman Baseball | Trackman Softball | KinaTrax | Driveline He architected a comprehensive event-level database infrastructure for NCAA/NAIA Baseball and Softball play-by-play and box score records, ball-tracking metrics and associated video content. Additionally, he oversees all technical staff tasked with research and development, data acquisition, quality assurance and customized data analysis served directly to MLB clubs and over 800 NCAA & NAIA programs each year. Rick holds an M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Arizona State University, as well as a B.S.E. in Aerospace Engineering (Aeronautics) and B.S. in Sustainability (Energy, Materials and Technology). He was named the Top Aerospace Engineering Graduate in his program and defended both a Master's Thesis concerning machine learning methods for turbulence structure modeling and an Honors Thesis concerning blade-vortex interaction (BVI) noise identification in rotary-wing aircraft. He is available for consulting and has extensive experience in software development and architecture at scale. Contact: rick@643charts.com