Summary
Muhammad Malik is an engineering manager with 16 years of software and research experience, currently leading engineering at Mobby.ai and previously coordinating a global, multi-institution research program on blockchain and MPC at Purdue. He combines hands-on systems programming in Rust and Python with a deep research background in multi-party computation and protocol optimization, including work on mixed-protocol black-box optimizations. His career spans industry and academia—from mobile and backend engineering to visiting scholarship at UC Berkeley’s Simons Institute—demonstrating an ability to translate cutting-edge cryptographic research into practical implementations. He has led large distributed collaborations, organized global hackathons and workshops, and advised industry partners such as Algorand. Based in Pakistan, he brings rare cross-domain fluency between low-level systems, applied cryptography, and team/product management.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer