Sharif Malak

Sharif Malak is a Senior Mechanical Engineer currently employed at Advanced Navigation since January 2024, with significant prior experience at StretchSense from January 2017 to December 2023, where responsibilities included managing the implementation of a temperature-controlled cleanroom and contributing to the development of stretch sensor technology and a hand motion capture glove. Earlier in the career, Sharif served as a Manufacturing Engineer on the Zozo Suit project with Zozo in Japan, as an Engineering Consultant from June 2014 to December 2016, and as a Production Development Engineer at Millar, Inc. Sharif also held the position of Research Engineer at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute, focusing on computer-assisted surgery systems, and started the engineering career as a Development Engineer at DaimlerChrysler AG, researching automotive safety solutions. Sharif holds a Master of Engineering in Engineering Science from The University of Auckland and a Diplom-Ingenieur in Mechatronics from Hochschule Esslingen.