Emilio Graff
Senior AI Software Engineer at Panform
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEmilio Graff is a Senior AI Software Engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of engineering experience and a Ph.D. from Caltech, combining deep research rigor with practical product delivery. He blends hands-on software and firmware development with optics, measurement instrumentation, and automation—having architected imaging systems at GoPro and led product performance at Shaper. As founder of Panform and current senior engineer at Taut, he focuses on building tools people actually use and improving existing systems for measurable impact. He has managed teams, product specs, and streamlined processes across academia and industry, bringing colleagues up the curve. Notably, his background spans from wind-tunnel research management at Caltech to automating heavy machinery, giving him a rare mix of experimental, mechanical, and AI software expertise. Based in the Bay Area, he thrives at the intersection of applied research and pragmatic engineering.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Art Center College of DesignCalifornia Institute of TechnologyJohn Foster Dulles High School
English, Spanish, Portuguese, German
Github Skills (15)
freeimage7
least-squares2
cmake2
windows2
portable2
athena2
csharp2
minimizer1
nonlinear1
flags1
gflags1
build-system1
c-library1
cpp1
julia1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
G-P-S/wpd-lib
Sep 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
csharpcommunicationwindowsportable
G-P-S/FreeImage
May 2015 - Dec 2016
A custom distribution of FreeImage, with a CMake-based build system. Used by the Athena Game Framework.
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
cmakeathenafreeimagebuild-systemgame-framework
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