Malik Chibah

Malik has over 10 years of experience in the marine technology industry and is the Engineering Director at Sonardyne International, a leading independent global provider of underwater acoustic, inertial, optical and sonar technology. After working in the software industry for 9 years on various development and systems integration projects he gained a Master’s Degree in Hydrographic Surveying from University College London in 2007. He then went on to join Sonardyne, initially working in the system test group. His work also includes offshore installation, support, demonstrations and providing training of Sonardyne acoustic products. He then went on to manage the development of Sonardyne’s hybrid inertial systems for Subsea vehicles. Following the successful development, launch and roll-out of SPRINT subsea INS into the offshore industry he then became overall manager of Inertial Navigation Systems at Sonardyne in 2014. In his current role as Engineering Director he now oversees the development and delivery of all products and systems, including those for marine autonomy applications.