Malik Piara
Product Builder & Maintainer at LisboaUX
Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolMalik Piara is a product builder and manager with 11 years of experience blending software engineering, interaction design, and community leadership from Lisbon. He designs, architects and maintains web products end-to-end—recently rebuilding and adapting LogiCola for the web and launching products using React/Next.js, TypeScript, PostHog and programmatic SEO. Malik co-founds and curates multiple tech communities (LisboaJS, LisboaUX, Outono, Lisbon AI Week, 351) that connect Portuguese builders worldwide, and he’s repeatedly turned early-stage ideas into launched products and measurable growth. He has led hands-on engineering, run product discovery workshops, and implemented lightweight processes that helped small teams ship more consistently. A pragmatic storyteller, he has a record of applying fast, user-centered pivots in high-pressure situations—most notably adapting a jobs platform to aid 400+ refugees during a crisis.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at University of LisbonPhilosophy + Computer Science, Philosophy + Computer Science at edXD School Design Thinking, D School Design Thinking at Hasso Plattner InstituteBachelor's degree Product Management. Minors in Software Engineering and Interaction Design, Bachelor's degree Product Management. Minors in Software Engineering and Interaction Design at CODE University of Applied Sciences
Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, German
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Github Skills (62)
administrator10
plugin10
file-browser9
elearning9
flask9
logic9
basecamp8
management8
github8
browser8
preference8
git8
javascript7
collections6
react6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
malikpiara/logicola
Mar 2024 - Jan 2025
LogiCola helps you learn logic. This is a web version of the original software built by the late Professor Harry Gensler.
Contributions:3 reviews, 50 PRs, 153 pushes in 10 months
formal-logiclogiclogicolaquizapp
malikpiara/cuiff
Mar 2021 - Sep 2022
Written standups for distributed teams. Inspired by Basecamp.
Contributions:9 reviews, 177 commits, 39 PRs in 1 year 5 months
golangbasecampstandupsteam-updatesstandup-report
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