Irfan Baqui
AI Engineer Founder at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolIrfan Baqui is an AI engineer and founder based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building developer-focused products and go-to-market strategies across startups and enterprise tech. He combines hands-on engineering—contributing architecture and refactors to notable open-source projects like Express Gateway—with customer-facing roles at Google where he advised Bay Area companies on product growth and developer monetization. As founder of Safa Labs he builds AI applications and invests in leading AI companies, while earlier founding Interview Accelerator to coach engineers into FAANG offers. His background spans platform engineering and product management at MuleSoft and consultancy-led global data platform rollouts, giving him rare fluency across product, engineering, and sales. Pragmatic and growth-oriented, he often bridges technical implementation with commercial outcomes and developer experience. An interesting throughline: he pairs deep OSS contributions with active mentorship and career coaching for other engineers.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Industrial Engineering Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Industrial Engineering Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Hindi, Urdu, Gujarati
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Github Skills (10)
javascript10
nodejs10
expressjs10
api-gateway10
oauth10
apidoc9
api9
microservices8
microservices-application8
security8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ExpressGateway/express-gateway
Dec 2016 - Jul 2017
A microservices API Gateway built on top of Express.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:96 commits, 6 PRs, 9 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Irfan's commits focused on refactoring the existing consumer management code within the express-gateway project, integrating the removal of the standalone consumer management module and integrating that functionality directly into the core project. The user added a new credential service and refactored the user and application services to make properties configurable from config files. The user also added features to activate/deactivate and delete application functionality.
api-gatewayexpressendpointsoauth2-serverservice-discovery
IrfanBaqui/react-router-v4-tutorial
Oct 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 10 months
reactreact-router-v4followreact-routerrouter
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