Hey, I'm Malaika! I work on Lakewatch at Databricks, building a security platform for the agentic era.

I am excited by

• designing agents for specific tasks, multi-agent systems, and understanding the nature of (their) cognition
• automation of discovery in the mathematical and life sciences
• tools for thinking, communicating, creating, and working better
• mathematical elegance: complexity and correctness of algorithms, discrete sets, types

I also love printmaking and pottery, documenting my life visually and analytically, hosting, spiritual jazz among many other genres of music, these 20th century artist projects, newsletters/magazines/print media, embodiment, spontaneity.

Before this I studied computer science at Oxford, did research with the Torr Vision Group on AI for biology. I was a software engineer at Granola, Standard AI, and more. I ran and scaled up orchard.day and ensemble.rodeo, interdisciplinary communities that brought together over 500 makers in the UK.

In this phase of life, I'm learning a ton and building my new life here. You will find me in San Francisco, but my heart is still in England, where I spent the last 8 years. Reach out if you'd like to chat!

Yours,
Malaika