Rafael Felix
Computer Scientist at Independent Researcher
Summary
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SeniorRafa Felix is a PhD-trained founder and research scientist with 11 years of international experience building ML-driven products that bridge computer vision, vision-language systems, and large language models. He has led high-impact work from academic breakthroughs—boosting VQA and deepfake detection benchmarks—to production safety engineering at scale, creating multimodal guardrails for 1B+ users and real-time inference pipelines handling 10k+ checks/sec. Rafa combines hands-on model and infra optimization (8K+ QPS inference, 4K-capable systems) with team leadership and mentorship across startups and research institutes. Now running an independent robotics safety lab, he focuses on verifiable, open-source safety protocols to prevent risky consumer deployments—an emphasis born from shipping constraints in real-world products. He’s as comfortable publishing top-cited papers as shipping compliant, large-scale ML systems across regulatory regions.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (31)
image-viewer9
image-processing7
computer-vision7
object-detection6
jupyter-notebook6
machine-learning6
python6
notebook6
visualization6
html5
stochastic-processes5
deep-learning5
ipython5
image-classification5
gpflow4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rfelixmg/frwgan-eccv18
Jul 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:20 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
rfelixmg/rfelixmg.github.io
Mar 2018 - Mar 2024
website
Contributions:2 PRs, 20 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years
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