Valeed Malik

Joined Infrastructure Automation Engineering (IAE) to lead EvidenceMap, a full stack compliance project. Transitioned to help drive Box’s ServiceCatalog cloud asset tracker initiative when IAE merged into Information Security Management (ISM). Recognized as the go-to full stack, Django, UI/UX, & ReactJS team expert. 🚀 Projects 📈 EvidenceMap --- Introduced mockups to the IAE project planning process: gathered dashboard requirements, collaborated with Product Design to create nine page layouts, & presented the designs to upper management. Delivered the MVP of an entirely rebuilt GUI while maintaining EvidenceMap’s core services, integrating end-to-end (E2E) testing, converting the developer portal from Django to Backstage, & migrating the stack to GCP products (GKE, MemoryStore, CloudSQL). ServiceCat --- Co-lead the development of a new feature of Box’s central service catalog: a compliance tool designed to track & map all cloud assets(compute instances, disks, OS's) to services and owners. This feature played an integral role in the April 2024 compliance audits conducted for Box’s FedRAMP High authorization.

Joined this community of 300+ worldwide CTOs to better deliver technology strategy & execution. Collaborate with senior leaders & peers to solve complex technical challenges, leverage cutting-edge industry trends, & build high-performing teams. Engage in 1:1 sessions, biweekly group coaching, & community discussions.

SaRA Health improves the healthy movement of users through a gamified musculoskeletal wellness platform. Use of the app reduces insurance costs, allows real-time interaction between patients and healthcare providers, and provides each user with a customized, achievable path to physical resilience. • Origin story: Conceptualized as a Medtech class project and 2017 MBA Thesis subject, SaRA Health incorporated and seeded with $325K from accelerators Techstars (2018) and Nex Cubed (2019) As SaRA’s CTO, cultivate a lean methodology culture focused on rapid growth, iterative development, continuous improvement, & innovative solutions to large, often ambiguous problems. Prioritize & scope both external & internal facing tools & frameworks - spanning back-end, front-end, & infrastructure - balancing immediate growth needs with a long-term strategy of sustainability, usability, & security. Recruited a Product Designer in 2017 to integrate mockups as a core component of SaRA’s product lifecycle. Developed detailed implementation plans spanning data design, back-end logic, front-end UI, & deployment after finalizing mockups, eliminating the need for resource-intensive code rewrites. After managing 20+ interns & contractors, hired SaRA’s first full-time front-end developer in April 2024.

As the first & only full stack developer to found this Remote Therapeutic Monitoring (RTM) services company, built - from scratch - its extensible HIPAA-compliant platform. Designed & implemented 45+ core product features, quickly mastering & integrating new cloud, web, database, pipeline, & API technologies to create a reliable, scalable, & high performance system for providers, clients, & developers. Latest core feature: Leveraged Terraform (Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool) to enable rapid deployments, minimize downtime to minutes, & ensure consistent configurations across all environments. Platform Development • Align SaRA’s product strategy with company goals and vision • Rapidly learned other coding languages and frameworks as needed to develop and iterate from MVP, to Alpha, to Beta, to first production state V1. Establish and execute SaRA’s technical foundation and roadmap encompassing platform architecture, product design, infrastructure development, feature implementation, and staff management. • Lead the development of all version releases: quickly learned and implemented cloud computing, web framework, database storage, CI/CD pipeline technologies, and third party API integration • Hire and manage all software engineers; directed 20+ previous team members (interns and contractors) • Research and integrate hosting and data encryption policies and procedures to comply with HIPAA • Ensure high availability by leveraging cloud platform features and writing system status tests • Resolve 50+ user requests and issues through rapid feature development, bug fixes, and customer interaction

One of 10 engineers who design, build, deploy, and maintain the infrastructure used daily by 30 teams • System routes 15M calls/day for 250+ versioned, replicated microservices running on 1000+ nodes • Serve as the team expert in containerized deployment (Kubernetes) and UX/UI design (React) • Owner of two products: a microservice catalog and an API reference interface • Sole support rep for 25% of the team’s user-facing tools Projects On-Demand & Scheduled Data Reports • Collaborated with a Bangalore-based platform team to automate the generation and batch delivery of downloadable user-created data visualizations (csv format) • Originally assigned one component and quickly stepped up to complete the entire backend: file system (Alluxio), front end (AngularJS), database (MongoDB), and runtime (NodeJS) Cloud-Agnostic Microservice Migration • Designed and implemented a resource-saving Proof of Concept (POC): transfer a Spring Boot microservice from an internal proprietary cloud environment to an open-source container architecture (Kubernetes) • Learned Kubernetes in one month to design the telemetry of the shared global cluster • Wrote the project’s technical spec with code examples to explain how to configure scale and resilience • Partnered with two managers to define the project’s benefits (reduced cost and maintenance burden on our team) and next stage (automate the migration of 100s of microservices by auto-generating wrapper files) Front End Data API End-to-End Testing Framework (Cypress-based) • Added local development environment and CI/CD pipeline validation checks to ensure that the microservice catalog UI correctly displays microservice information

• Launched a weekly interview and live performance music podcast with 28K+ listens • Edited and released 72 episodes, DJ-ed 42 live on-air mixes, and designed and posted social media graphics • Interviewed 32 EDM artists including multiple Grammy nominated guests

• Taught four quarters of Introduction to C++ Programming (in-person and virtually) • Led two lectures and office hours/week, created course materials, tests, and grading metrics, automated assignments on REPL (browser-based IDE)

• Designed and implemented a novel solution to detect repetitive edits from R source code. Useful for anti-plagiarism and code extraction tools. • Examined code clones taxonomy within the space of R to derive classification encoding. • Utilized encoding fingerprints units to be compared to all possible subunits.

◦ Attended all class lectures, led weekly 40-student supplemental lab sessions, and collaborated with other TAs to answer discussion board questions and grade assignments for four courses (one/quarter): ◦ Software Engineering (taught by Senior Google Engineers), Computer Organization & Architecture (two sessions), and Programming Languages

• Developed UI features for in-flight entertainment systems using the QT widget toolkit/framework • Created detailed airport terminal displays and passenger and flight crew views

• Graphics Lab (2014-2015): Applied psychology and neuroscience principles (e.g. n-back continuous performance tasks) to implement memory recall patterns in a cognitive training app (iOS, Objective-C) • Hardware/EE Lab (2014): Built experimental applications with CUDA (Nvidia’s GPU parallel programming model) • Embedded Systems (2013): Supported a graduate student’s visual flow analysis C++ project

• Troubleshoot and maintain all computers and printers. • Monitor computer lab, facilitate clients and attend lab telephone in a professional manner.

• Authored a self help small claims interview with Access 2 Justice software • Experience business workflows and management aspects