Malaika Arif holds a Bachelor's degree in Cyber Security and worked as a full stack developer before teaching became her main occupation. She built a SIEM log monitoring system during a cybersecurity internship and still writes code, so when a student asks why a topic matters the answer comes from somewhere real.
Her lessons lean on projects and simulations rather than dictation. Students build something, break it, and work out what went wrong, which holds attention far better than a slide deck. She is fluent with the interactive tools that make remote teaching work, and across 5 years and more than 25,000 hours she has developed a knack for turning technical vocabulary into something a 14-year-old will actually remember.