## Chris Malek

I am a San Diego, California-based Enterprise Integration Architect with over 25 years of experience designing and building integrations between enterprise systems. My solutions are deployed at Stanford, Duke, CUNY, UC Santa Cruz, and across the California Community College system. I specialize in REST API architecture, identity and authentication integrations (OAuth, SAML, SCIM), and real-time data synchronization between cloud platforms and on-premises systems.

I prioritize understanding business requirements before writing code. I work directly with functional experts to ensure solutions that departments can manage themselves—when I hand off a project, the team shouldn’t need to call IT for every change. My 25 years across dozens of universities and corporations means I’ve seen what enterprise patterns actually survive contact with reality, and which ones don’t.