About Chris Malek
I’ve been building PeopleSoft integrations for 25+ years. My code runs at Stony Brook, Stanford, UC Santa Cruz, Duke, CUNY, and across the California Community College system to name a few. I specialize in integrations and bolt-ons that require zero modifications to Oracle-delivered objects, so your upgrades stay clean.
I prioritize understanding business requirements before writing code. I sit with functional experts, ask questions, and make sure I understand the problem before proposing a solution. My goal is solutions that business owners can run themselves. When I hand off a project, the department shouldn’t need to call IT for every change.
My PeopleTools expertise runs deep. I’m an expert in PeopleCode and all aspects of PeopleTools application development. I authored an open-source book on integrating with PeopleSoft systems that has become a reference for the community. I have significant experience developing customizations, including complex workflow and self-service applications—component interfaces, application packages, web services, application messaging, fluid development, and application engines. My solutions are designed for clean upgrades with minimal implications for future changes.
Why engage me? I’ve worked inside dozens of universities and corporations, which means I’ve seen what enterprise patterns actually survive contact with reality—and which ones don’t. That breadth of experience translates directly to speed: I’ve built toolkits and frameworks over two decades that let me deliver solutions orders of magnitude faster than starting from scratch. You get an outside perspective that can hit the ground running.
Recent Projects
Below is a listing of some recent projects I have worked on.
CampusCE PeopleSoft Integration
I was engaged by N2N Services to architect a PeopleSoft Campus Solutions integration with CampusCE , a cloud-based non-credit registration platform.
The problem: Schools using both systems faced a choice—build a custom integration or manually re-enter every non-credit registration into PeopleSoft.
The solution: A complete bidirectional integration handling search/match, matriculation, and student registration. Students register in CampusCE; records flow automatically into PeopleSoft with no manual intervention.
I designed a single configurable PeopleSoft project that deploys to any CampusCE customer. Each school controls their data flow through configuration tables—one codebase serves all customers with zero upgrade issues.
PeopleSoft SCIM Integration
I was engaged by James Madison University to integrate their OKTA tenant with PeopleSoft for automated user provisioning.
The problem: JMU’s implementation team was attempting to build the SCIM integration using tools outside of PeopleSoft. This approach would have bypassed PeopleSoft’s security model and created maintenance headaches.
The solution: I designed and implemented a SCIM 2.0 server directly inside PeopleSoft, allowing OKTA to create, update, and manage user accounts through proper PeopleSoft channels. The integration handles all students and staff—every user provisioned through OKTA flows into PeopleSoft automatically.
Building it inside the PeopleSoft framework meant full access to PeopleSoft Security, proper audit trails, and zero external dependencies to maintain.
EdVisorly PeopleSoft Connectors
Designed and developed an enterprise integration solution connecting EdVisorly’s AI-powered transcript processing platform to Oracle PeopleSoft Campus Solutions.
The Problem: Universities using PeopleSoft faced a critical bottleneck—Oracle provides no out-of-the-box API to import student transfer credit and transcript data. Admissions staff were forced to manually enter transcript data for thousands of transfer students each cycle, creating delays and errors in credit evaluation.
The Solution: A suite of RESTful web services delivered as a bolt-on PeopleSoft project, enabling secure automated data flow between EdVisorly’s cloud platform and university systems. The architecture modifies zero Oracle-delivered objects, ensuring seamless upgrades. All updates flow through PeopleSoft’s native Component Interfaces, preserving data integrity and business logic.
Customer Outcomes: Staff now import transcript data automatically rather than through manual entry. Installation requires only a few hours of IT time, and client-specific logic resides in EdVisorly’s platform—eliminating ongoing PeopleSoft maintenance. The solution has proven reliable across diverse hosting environments including Oracle Cloud, AWS, and on-premises data centers.
Genius PeopleSoft Integration
I was engaged by N2N Services to build a PeopleSoft Campus Solutions integration with Genius , another non-credit registration platform requiring bidirectional sync with PeopleSoft.
This project followed the same proven architecture as other non-credit integrations: a single configurable PeopleSoft project deployable to any Genius customer. The integration handles search/match, matriculation, registration, and supports flexible workflows—schools can manage course catalogs in either system depending on their operational preferences.
I designed a single configurable PeopleSoft project that deploys to any Genius customer to handle bidirectional data flow with zero upgrade issues.
UMASS Dartmouth Dual Enrollment Integration
I was engaged by UMASS and Solidan to integrate Slate with PeopleSoft for their High School Dual Enrollment program.
The problem: Staff were manually entering each dual enrollment applicant into PeopleSoft—10+ minutes per student of repetitive data entry.
The solution: A PeopleSoft integration that pulls applicant data from Slate, handles search/match to find existing records, and creates or updates student records automatically. A staging table allows staff to review and correct data before it flows into PeopleSoft.
The integration runs on schedule or ad-hoc and continues to admit students reliably today.
Mainstay PeopleSoft Integration
I was engaged by National University to integrate PeopleSoft Campus Solutions with Mainstay , their SMS campaign platform for student engagement.
The problem: Staff were manually exporting student data from production via Excel spreadsheets to feed Mainstay campaigns. This was slow, error-prone, and meant campaigns used stale data.
The solution: A PeopleSoft bolt-on that syncs student data to Mainstay in near-real-time. The system monitors for changes using audit tables and automatically pushes updates—no manual exports, no stale data.
The integration handles 45,000 students and maps complex PeopleSoft data to Mainstay custom fields for audience segmentation. Staff can now run targeted SMS campaigns with current data instead of waiting for the next manual export.
PeopleSoft and IDM Integration
I was engaged by UMASS and Solidan to redesign their authentication and provisioning system for PeopleSoft Campus Solutions.
The problem: The legacy authentication system was causing frequent outages, high support costs, and security concerns. Every upgrade was risky because the old customizations were tangled into delivered code.
The solution: I replaced the outdated authentication with a clean SAML-based approach and built an event-driven system to provision and reconcile user accounts in real-time from their IDP. The new design sits entirely in a bolt-on project—zero modifications to Oracle-delivered objects.
The result: lower support costs, safer upgrades, and a system staff can actually maintain without specialized knowledge of the old architecture.
California Virtual Campus PeopleSoft Integration
California Virtual Campus is a statewide initiative letting California community college students enroll in online classes at any participating school without going through a separate application process.
The problem: Each community college runs a different SIS with different implementation practices. Building cross-enrollment required real-time integrations that could handle student data, matriculation, enrollment, and payment—across every school.
The solution: I designed and implemented all the PeopleSoft web services for colleges using PeopleSoft Campus Solutions. The integration works in two phases: catalog/schedule sync to the central CVC website, and cross-enrollment that fully admits students in real-time including demographic, academic, and financial data.
The code follows our standard best practices —zero modifications to Oracle-delivered objects, minimal upgrade implications.
Currently deployed at:
PeopleSoft Coursedog Integration
I worked with Coursedog and the N2N Services Illuminate Platform to build the PeopleSoft integration layer for their course catalog, scheduling, and academic planning platform.
Coursedog manages curriculum data in the cloud, but that data needs to sync back to each school’s SIS. I designed a single configurable PeopleSoft project that deploys to any customer—each school controls what can be updated or retrieved through configuration tables. The code follows our standard best practices with zero modifications to Oracle-delivered objects.
Currently running at:
PeopleSoft Financial Aid Forms Framework
Cedar Hills Group, Inc. was contracted to analyze, recommend and implement a streamlined solution to a paper-based Financial Aid (FA) business process for National University . The FA department was using a combination of paper-based forms and an outdated electronic system. Prior to this project, the legacy system was only collecting data for a very small percentage of the forms that could be required for a student to receive financial aid.
I led the project, working closely with directors, subject-matter experts, and front-line advisors. After several prototypes, iterations and design meetings, a solution was designed and implemented to drastically increase productivity and remove paper from the process.
- We created a “Financial Aid Forms Framework” within PeopleSoft that allows new forms to be created by a subject-matter expert with no help from technical staff. The functional experts can add, update, and remove forms with only a web browser.
- We replaced a cumbersome and unreliable third-party system that was only a 10% solution to the business process and reduced licensing costs to the university significantly. The implemented solution was folded into the PeopleSoft database and ended up being a 95% solution to the paper-based process with no additional licensing costs and minimal upgrade concerns.
- The PeopleSoft bolt-on was designed to work exactly within the department’s current business process and policies, thus allowing for faster adoption of the project.
- The student-facing pages allowed for a simple “dashboard” by aid year when students could quickly see their form submission history and quickly find the status of any needed forms for the open aid years.
This project was arguably one of the most successful projects I have ever worked on when looking at the ROI for the client.
- The project was implemented over several phases. The first two phases of the project implemented 90% of the functionality and was rolled out in a matter of months after the initial design phase.
- Those phases provided a drastic increase in turnaround time for the Financial Aid Department. In the previous process, the paper forms could take weeks to get back. In the new electronic system, an Aid Counselor could request forms from a student and then receive the electronically submitted forms from an applicant in minutes. This process improvement resulted in significant cost savings and productivity gains as well as happier students.
- Additionally, no developer coding was required to create new forms. The form creation and maintenance was all handed off to the department owners. After the project went live, the department started to see over 20,000 forms submitted in an aid year and configured over 60 forms per aid year all without the help of the IT department and very few bug reports.
PeopleSoft Brightspace Integration
I was engaged by National University to integrate PeopleSoft Campus Solutions with their D2L Brightspace LMS.
The problem: National University needed bidirectional data flow between PeopleSoft and Brightspace—user provisioning, course enrollments pushed to the LMS, and grades flowing back to PeopleSoft. D2L’s Valence APIs use OAuth, which PeopleSoft doesn’t support out of the box.
The solution: I designed and implemented a configurable integration that handles the full data lifecycle. This included building an OAuth client and REST API layer in PeopleCode to communicate with Brightspace. The design is flexible enough that multiple colleges within the National University System have transitioned to Brightspace using the same integration.
The system remains in production today.
PeopleSoft Salesforce Integration
I partnered with Lingk to integrate PeopleSoft Campus Solutions with Salesforce for a Wisconsin Technical College.
The problem: Staff were manually entering data between Salesforce (used for student success and support) and PeopleSoft. Applications started in Salesforce had to be re-keyed into PeopleSoft for matriculation.
The solution: I designed configurable web services that let Lingk’s ETL platform extract data from PeopleSoft and push it to Salesforce. For the reverse flow, I built an integration that admits applicants from Salesforce directly into PeopleSoft—handling search/match, matriculation, and term activation automatically.
The integration follows our standard best practices and remains in production today.
PeopleSoft OKTA Integration
I was engaged by National University to integrate their OKTA SSO tenant with PeopleSoft Campus Solutions.
The problem: Student SSO accounts needed to be provisioned automatically when students matriculated, de-provisioned when they left, and kept in sync with PeopleSoft data changes. OKTA group memberships needed to reflect PeopleSoft data in real-time.
The solution: I designed a configurable system that communicates with the OKTA REST APIs to handle the full account lifecycle. PeopleSoft Queries drive OKTA group memberships, and changes sync to OKTA in real-time.
The integration handles 45,000+ students and remains a core part of the university’s SSO infrastructure.
Augusoft PeopleSoft Campus Solutions Web Services
I was engaged to build a PeopleSoft Campus Solutions integration with Augusoft Lumens LMS (now owned by Modern Campus).
The integration includes 23 web services covering course catalog, classes, personal data, academic records, registrations, and financial data—all bidirectional and real-time. The code follows our standard best practices with zero modifications to Oracle-delivered objects.
Two clients performed CS 9.0 to 9.2 upgrades with zero changes required to the deployed code showing the upgrade resilience of the architecture.
Currently running at:
Modern Campus Destiny One PeopleSoft Integration
I was engaged to build a bidirectional PeopleSoft Campus Solutions integration with Modern Campus Destiny One.
Working with Modern Campus product teams, I designed a single configurable PeopleSoft project deployable to any customer. Each school controls what data can be read or written through configuration—same codebase, different behavior per client.
The integration includes a generic data extraction service (course catalog, classes, person data, academics, registrations, financials) plus create/update services for person records, matriculation, term activation, and enrollment. The code follows our standard best practices with zero modifications to Oracle-delivered objects.
Now in production at multiple schools.