Rafiq Premji
Staff Backend Engineer - Computer Vision Platform
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRafiq Premji is a Staff Backend Engineer specializing in computer vision platforms with 11 years of hands-on experience building scalable web systems, infrastructure, and full-stack solutions. He currently drives ML and computer vision adoption at GameChanger, translating research needs into production-ready backend services for a high-visibility sports tech product. Previously he led engineering and architecture efforts at Guild and RE/MAX, where he rebuilt and launched a platform serving 100k+ users and acted as sole system architect after an acquisition. A proven mentor and program builder, he has started and run successful mentoring programs at three employers to accelerate junior talent. Rafiq is deepening his ML and data science expertise through an MS in Computer Science (expected 2025), bringing both practical production experience and academic rigor to ML-driven engineering. Based in Denver, he blends a background that spans firmware and web development to uniquely connect low-level systems thinking with modern ML-backed platforms.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
Github Skills (18)
laravel-package9
parsing9
templating9
csv9
phpexcel8
phpoffice8
php8
laravel8
nodejs7
javascript7
npm7
excel7
cli7
shell7
machine-learning6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
PrajnaAvidya/prompt-shaper
Jul 2023 - Jul 2025
PromptShaper is a templating language for efficiently constructing LLM prompts.
Contributions:2 releases, 47 PRs, 108 pushes in 1 year 11 months
llmtemplatingchatgptcligpt4
PrajnaAvidya/random-clicker
Apr 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:13 commits, 7 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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