Chris Malek
Associate Director Of Academic Development
Altadena, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Malek is a seasoned software engineer and cloud architect with over three decades in software engineering and nearly two decades in leadership, currently serving as Associate Director of Academic Development at Caltech. He leads a lean agile team that manages 150+ codebases and 70+ services, building high‑performance, distributed microservices and large Drupal sites migrated to AWS with Terraform and containerized deployments. Known for heavy investment in process automation and DevOps tooling, he owns much of Caltech’s core AWS infrastructure and continuous deployment pipelines while also coding and mentoring engineers. He has driven high‑visibility projects from complete website redesigns to a next‑generation seismic data processing system and is one of Caltech’s senior researchers into Generative AI proofs of concept. Chris combines hands‑on development (Python, PHP, C) with product stewardship for access.caltech.edu, and his career began with scientific software still in use in research settings. He earned an MSIS while managing a team full time, reflecting a rare blend of academic rigor and operational execution.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Information Systems and Technology, Master of Science - MS, Information Systems and Technology at Claremont Graduate UniversityMaster of Engineering - MEng, Electrical Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical Engineering at University of Virginia
EnglishGithub contributions (1)
seerdata/crdata
Jun 2014 - Nov 2019
Contributions:14 commits, 11 pushes in 5 years 5 months
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