Aref Malek

Aref Malek

Aref Malek

Trying new things | Purdue Alum

I am looking to make a lasting impact through both technical and interpersonal skills. I’ve worked across diverse domains—full-stack at Tesla, computer vision research at NASA, and low-level systems at SpaceX—giving me a strong foundation in software and hardware interactions.

Experience

CoinbaseSoftware Engineer

2025 — Now

SpaceXSoftware Engineer

2024 — 2025

2024 — 2025

Redmond, Washington, United States

wrote production satellite software in C++

analyzing starlink scheduling patterns from my experiments with SQL and Python, fixing metrics services from experiment results

adding infrastructure with Cockroach DB, Python (ORM), and Protobufs

Quite the wild ride!

Lots of lessons about what works for me as far as working-style

ML@PurdueOfficer

2023 — 2024

2023 — 2024

West Lafayette, Indiana, United States

Grew way bigger than I could've imagined while I was away at Tesla, so much campus involvement these days

ML@PurdueFounding Vice President

2023 — 2023

2023 — 2023

West Lafayette, Indiana, United States

https://mlp.cs.purdue.edu/

also surprisingly treasurer

TeslaSoftware Engineer Intern

2023 — 2023

2023 — 2023

Palo Alto, California, United States

Energy Product Software team, started on internal tools for Superchargers and then prototyped an analytics proxy service

Education

Purdue University

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science (Honors)

2020 — 2024