Rafi Kamal
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolRafi Kamal is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable backend systems, currently engineering infrastructure for generative media in Google’s Shopping AR & ML team out of Mountain View. He has led cross-product messaging integrations, metrics infrastructure, and RCS business messaging APIs, combining hands-on development with technical leadership. An active open-source contributor, he has contributed versioning, build improvements and JSON serialization refactors to the widely used protocolbuffers/protobuf project. Comfortable across large-scale product teams and deep engineering problems, he brings a pragmatic focus on compatibility, maintainability, and shipping production-grade systems. Trained in Computer Science & Engineering at BUET, he pairs strong core fundamentals with proven experience navigating Google-scale engineering challenges.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science & Engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
English, Bengali
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Github Skills (17)
python10
protocol-buffers10
javadoc9
java9
regex9
android-studio9
versioning9
json-serialization8
build-automation8
eclipse6
background-color6
php6
csharp6
android6
dotnet-core6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
protocolbuffers/protobuf
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 1 commit, 177 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Rafi primarily contributed to the protobuf project by updating the versioning and build process. Their work involved modifying the `update_version.py` script to correctly format version numbers. They also updated various header files and project files (e.g., csharp/src/Google.Protobuf/Google.Protobuf.csproj, php/ext/google/protobuf/protobuf.h, python/google/protobuf/\_\_init\_\_.py) to reflect the version updates and ensure compatibility. Furthermore, they performed code refactoring for the JSON serialization and deserialization.
protocol-buffersrpcgoogle-protocol-buffersinterchange-formatmarshalling
rafi-kamal/Aggregate-Spatio-Textual-Query
Sep 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:77 commits, 65 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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