Summary
Abdur Malik is a Staff Software Engineer in Detroit with 12 years of front-end-focused experience building responsive, user-centric applications across aerospace and industrial domains. He has led pods and front-end efforts at GE Power and GE Aerospace, blending modern JavaScript frameworks with pragmatic engineering practices like TDD and pair programming. Trained in art and design, he brings a practiced visual sensibility from years as a freelance artist and founder of a design studio, which informs UX-forward implementation and component design. Comfortable across legacy and modern stacks (AngularJS, Polymer, vanilla JS) and integration work in C++/Java, he’s equally at home mentoring teams and shipping production UI features at scale. Less obvious: his design-first background means he often prototypes solutions visually before coding, accelerating stakeholder buy-in and reducing rework.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Art & Design, Art & Design at University of Michigan
Fine Arts, Fine Arts at School of the Art Institute of Chicago