Summary
Salim Malik is an Engineering Manager based in Australia with 11 years of experience building enterprise web applications and leading cross-functional teams. He progressed through hands-on senior and staff engineering roles into management at Ascenda, combining front-end expertise in Angular/SPA architectures with backend and DevOps practices. Known for creating reusable UI libraries, publishing private npm packages, and streamlining git and CI/CD workflows, he brings a practical focus on developer productivity and maintainable front-end frameworks. Salim has repeatedly taken on UI leadership and scrum-master responsibilities to improve UX and delivery cadence across reporting, security, and rewards platforms. His background blends a formal software engineering education with early Java/J2EE experience, which helps him bridge legacy systems and modern cloud-native stacks. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technologist who elevates teams through tooling, process improvements, and thoughtful interface design.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Information Technology , Specialized in Software Engineering, 2nd class upper, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Information Technology , Specialized in Software Engineering, 2nd class upper at Curtin University of Technology
Biology, General, Biology, General at Hindu College , Colombo 4
Higher Diploma in Information Technology, Information Technology, 2nd class upper, Higher Diploma in Information Technology, Information Technology, 2nd class upper at SLIIT
English, Tamil, Sinhalese, Arabic