Ali Raja
Co-Founder & CTO at KNOWRON GmbH
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolAli Raja is a technologist and startup CTO with nine years of experience building AI-driven products and production software across Europe and industry leaders like BMW. As Co-Founder & CTO of KNOWRON in Munich he leads development of a digital assistant for deskless workers, combining machine learning expertise (3D object tracking, deep learning) with full-stack and SRE skills across Python, Java, C#, React, Kubernetes and cloud platforms. His background spans autonomous driving data pipelines, feature engineering for extreme multi-label problems, and synthetic dataset creation for robotics—work that bridges research-grade ML and deployable systems. A CDTM and TUM-trained engineer who also spent time as a visiting researcher at MIT, he pairs product-focused engineering with strategic insight gained from accelerator and consulting experiences. Colleagues describe him as mission-driven: he intentionally applies AI to social impact problems rather than novelty alone.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting Researcher Technology Management, Visiting Researcher Technology Management at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Technical University of MunichBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at National University of Computer and Emerging SciencesHonors Degree Technology Management, Honors Degree Technology Management at Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM)
Urdu, English, German
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Github Skills (34)
react-native-voice9
voice-recognition8
edtech7
crowd7
android7
aspnetboilerplate6
frontend6
utc6
angularjs6
incremental-learning6
asp-net-mvc6
json6
aspnet-web-api6
ios6
javascript6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
knowron/foss-api
Feb 2023 - Feb 2026
Contributions:3 releases, 12 reviews, 30 PRs in 3 years
alikareemraja/slick-frontend
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
Front end of the Slick system, an online app to recognize your taste in fashion.
Contributions:43 commits, 36 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
frontend
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