# Valeed Malik > 📐 9yrs Senior Full Stack Product Engineer @ Box / Founder & CTO (TS '17) Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/valeed I’m an entrepreneur and full-stack product engineer who actively pursues projects that put me outside of my comfort zone. I constantly challenge myself and my team to create scalable software products that provide an effortless user experience. I've built highly inclusive & performant cultures where team members are mentored & comfortably challenged to do their best work. Technically, I combine big picture thinking with tactical efficiency to architect and implement tech stacks and migrate cloud infrastructure. I’ve taught myself cloud, web, and infrastructure technologies to build - completely from scratch - a gamified wellness platform, a code clone detection tool, and back-end engines. Creatively, I take a human-first approach to design products that delight users aesthetically and provide an effortless, intuitive interaction. As a lifelong artist, I’ve built interactive video surveys, curated Spotify playlists streamed by hundreds of listeners worldwide, produced live music mixes on the radio, designed album art, and explored color palettes and spacing on UI mockups and wireframes. My background includes: 💪 Co-Founder & CTO, SaRA Health 👨🏽‍💻 Full-Stack Software & Infra Engineer, Box 👨🏽‍💻 Full-Stack Software & Infra Engineer, Goldman Sachs 📚 Adjunct Professor, Santa Monica College 🎤 Producer, Co-Host, and DJ, Deep End Theory Podcast 🎓 Graduate and Undergraduate Student Researcher, UC Riverside and UCLA My technical skills include: • Coding Languages: Python | Javascript | Java | C++ • Web: Python | Django REST | NodeJs | Flask | Spring • Javascript: React | Redux | NodeJS | Cypress E2E Testing | Angular | AG-Grid • DevOps: Docker | Kubernetes | Terraform | GitlabCI • 𝗚𝗖𝗣 ☁️: Cloud Run | App Engine | Storage | SQL • 𝘼𝙒𝙎 ☁️: EC2 | ELB | RDS | EKS | S3 | VPC | CloudFront | Route53 • APIs: GCP Speech to Text | Spotify | Sentry | Twilio | Intercom | Vimeo | Sendgrid • UI/UX: Figma | Sketch | Adobe Illustrator I’m always interested in hearing from fellow entrepreneurs and anyone new to the tech space who has a specific question. Feel free to contact me via InMail or e-mail at valeed.malik8@gmail.com. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer (Cloud Engineering) @ Box Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Joined Infrastructure Automation Engineering (IAE) to lead EvidenceMap, a full stack compliance project. Transitioned to help drive Box’s ServiceCatalog cloud asset tracker initiative when IAE merged into Information Security Management (ISM). Recognized as the go-to full stack, Django, UI/UX, & ReactJS team expert. 🚀 Projects 📈 EvidenceMap --- Introduced mockups to the IAE project planning process: gathered dashboard requirements, collaborated with Product Design to create nine page layouts, & presented the designs to upper management. Delivered the MVP of an entirely rebuilt GUI while maintaining EvidenceMap’s core services, integrating end-to-end (E2E) testing, converting the developer portal from Django to Backstage, & migrating the stack to GCP products (GKE, MemoryStore, CloudSQL). ServiceCat --- Co-lead the development of a new feature of Box’s central service catalog: a compliance tool designed to track & map all cloud assets(compute instances, disks, OS's) to services and owners. This feature played an integral role in the April 2024 compliance audits conducted for Box’s FedRAMP High authorization. ### Member @ 7CTOs Jan 2019 – Present | San Diego Metropolitan Area Joined this community of 300+ worldwide CTOs to better deliver technology strategy & execution. Collaborate with senior leaders & peers to solve complex technical challenges, leverage cutting-edge industry trends, & build high-performing teams. Engage in 1:1 sessions, biweekly group coaching, & community discussions. ### Co-Founder @ SARA Health Jan 2016 – Present | Buena Park, California / Kansas City, Missouri SaRA Health improves the healthy movement of users through a gamified musculoskeletal wellness platform. Use of the app reduces insurance costs, allows real-time interaction between patients and healthcare providers, and provides each user with a customized, achievable path to physical resilience. • Origin story: Conceptualized as a Medtech class project and 2017 MBA Thesis subject, SaRA Health incorporated and seeded with $325K from accelerators Techstars (2018) and Nex Cubed (2019) As SaRA’s CTO, cultivate a lean methodology culture focused on rapid growth, iterative development, continuous improvement, & innovative solutions to large, often ambiguous problems. Prioritize & scope both external & internal facing tools & frameworks - spanning back-end, front-end, & infrastructure - balancing immediate growth needs with a long-term strategy of sustainability, usability, & security. Recruited a Product Designer in 2017 to integrate mockups as a core component of SaRA’s product lifecycle. Developed detailed implementation plans spanning data design, back-end logic, front-end UI, & deployment after finalizing mockups, eliminating the need for resource-intensive code rewrites. After managing 20+ interns & contractors, hired SaRA’s first full-time front-end developer in April 2024. ### Full Stack Product / Infrastructure Engineer @ SARA Health Jan 2016 – Jan 2023 As the first & only full stack developer to found this Remote Therapeutic Monitoring (RTM) services company, built - from scratch - its extensible HIPAA-compliant platform. Designed & implemented 45+ core product features, quickly mastering & integrating new cloud, web, database, pipeline, & API technologies to create a reliable, scalable, & high performance system for providers, clients, & developers. Latest core feature: Leveraged Terraform (Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool) to enable rapid deployments, minimize downtime to minutes, & ensure consistent configurations across all environments. Platform Development • Align SaRA’s product strategy with company goals and vision • Rapidly learned other coding languages and frameworks as needed to develop and iterate from MVP, to Alpha, to Beta, to first production state V1. Establish and execute SaRA’s technical foundation and roadmap encompassing platform architecture, product design, infrastructure development, feature implementation, and staff management. • Lead the development of all version releases: quickly learned and implemented cloud computing, web framework, database storage, CI/CD pipeline technologies, and third party API integration • Hire and manage all software engineers; directed 20+ previous team members (interns and contractors) • Research and integrate hosting and data encryption policies and procedures to comply with HIPAA • Ensure high availability by leveraging cloud platform features and writing system status tests • Resolve 50+ user requests and issues through rapid feature development, bug fixes, and customer interaction ### Full Stack Software / Infra Engineer (Data Platform Team) @ Goldman Sachs Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Salt Lake City, Utah, United States One of 10 engineers who design, build, deploy, and maintain the infrastructure used daily by 30 teams • System routes 15M calls/day for 250+ versioned, replicated microservices running on 1000+ nodes • Serve as the team expert in containerized deployment (Kubernetes) and UX/UI design (React) • Owner of two products: a microservice catalog and an API reference interface • Sole support rep for 25% of the team’s user-facing tools Projects On-Demand & Scheduled Data Reports • Collaborated with a Bangalore-based platform team to automate the generation and batch delivery of downloadable user-created data visualizations (csv format) • Originally assigned one component and quickly stepped up to complete the entire backend: file system (Alluxio), front end (AngularJS), database (MongoDB), and runtime (NodeJS) Cloud-Agnostic Microservice Migration • Designed and implemented a resource-saving Proof of Concept (POC): transfer a Spring Boot microservice from an internal proprietary cloud environment to an open-source container architecture (Kubernetes) • Learned Kubernetes in one month to design the telemetry of the shared global cluster • Wrote the project’s technical spec with code examples to explain how to configure scale and resilience • Partnered with two managers to define the project’s benefits (reduced cost and maintenance burden on our team) and next stage (automate the migration of 100s of microservices by auto-generating wrapper files) Front End Data API End-to-End Testing Framework (Cypress-based) • Added local development environment and CI/CD pipeline validation checks to ensure that the microservice catalog UI correctly displays microservice information ### Podcast Co-host/Producer @ DEEP END THEORY Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Los Angeles, California, United States • Launched a weekly interview and live performance music podcast with 28K+ listens • Edited and released 72 episodes, DJ-ed 42 live on-air mixes, and designed and posted social media graphics • Interviewed 32 EDM artists including multiple Grammy nominated guests ### Adjunct Professor of Computer Science @ Santa Monica College Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Santa Monica, California, United States • Taught four quarters of Introduction to C++ Programming (in-person and virtually) • Led two lectures and office hours/week, created course materials, tests, and grading metrics, automated assignments on REPL (browser-based IDE) ### Graduate Student Researcher @ UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Software Evolution and Analysis Lab • Designed and implemented a novel solution to detect repetitive edits from R source code. Useful for anti-plagiarism and code extraction tools. • Examined code clones taxonomy within the space of R to derive classification encoding. • Utilized encoding fingerprints units to be compared to all possible subunits. ### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Los Angeles ◦ Attended all class lectures, led weekly 40-student supplemental lab sessions, and collaborated with other TAs to answer discussion board questions and grade assignments for four courses (one/quarter): ◦ Software Engineering (taught by Senior Google Engineers), Computer Organization & Architecture (two sessions), and Programming Languages ### Software Engineer @ Zodiac Aerospace (aircraft systems and equipment) Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Brea, Ca • Developed UI features for in-flight entertainment systems using the QT widget toolkit/framework • Created detailed airport terminal displays and passenger and flight crew views ### Undergraduate Student Researcher @ University of California, Riverside Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Bournes College of Engineering • Graphics Lab (2014-2015): Applied psychology and neuroscience principles (e.g. n-back continuous performance tasks) to implement memory recall patterns in a cognitive training app (iOS, Objective-C) • Hardware/EE Lab (2014): Built experimental applications with CUDA (Nvidia’s GPU parallel programming model) • Embedded Systems (2013): Supported a graduate student’s visual flow analysis C++ project ### Lab Consultant @ University of California, Riverside Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Student Computing Services • Troubleshoot and maintain all computers and printers. • Monitor computer lab, facilitate clients and attend lab telephone in a professional manner. ### Court Technology Support (Process Team) Intern @ Orange County Superior Court Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Santa Ana, Ca • Authored a self help small claims interview with Access 2 Justice software • Experience business workflows and management aspects ### Sales Associate @ Hollister Co. Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Cerritos, Ca • Customer Services • Inventory management • Teamwork with co-workers changing everyday • Apply strict marketing policies of the store ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science UCLA ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science University of California, Riverside ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/valeedmalik --- Source: https://flows.cv/valeed JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/valeed/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22