Ashraf Raji
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Waterloo, Ontario, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolAshraf Raji is a software engineer with 8 years of hands-on experience building backend systems, device firmware, and AI features, currently working on Office AI at Microsoft. Trained in mechatronics at the University of Waterloo, he brings a hardware-aware perspective to software problems—having led firmware and telemetry for a solar car team while also shipping cloud-native services. His background spans Go gRPC services, GraphQL APIs, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes, and observability with Datadog, reflecting a strong full-stack backend focus. Comfortable moving between embedded C/Python and large-scale cloud systems, he combines pragmatic engineering with a knack for shipping reliable, instrumented systems that bridge device and cloud.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Mechatronics Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Mechatronics Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (12)
solar-car10
embedded8
arm8
firmware8
microcontroller7
javascript3
react3
protobuf3
animation3
codegen2
code-generation2
tooling2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ashraf2047/rails-online-store
Jan 2019 - Nov 2019
A RESTful API built with Ruby on Rails
Contributions:2 PRs, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
ruby-on-railsapirails-apirailsrestful
ashraf2047/ashraf2047.github.io
Jul 2023 - Feb 2024
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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