Sooham Rafiz
Senior Software Engineer
Never escaped vim
I tackle hard problems in Software Engineering, Hardware and Machine Learning. Previously at Amazon, Qualcomm, and Intel. I like to understand how things work at a fundamental level.
Latest Posts
Apple Silicon
Measuring Cache Hierarchy on Apple M4 with Pointer Chasing
While exploring parallel computing concepts on my own time, I decided to set up an experiment to...
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NLP
What next token prediction models can't do well in-context.
High level plan: Explain the architecture of next token prediction models i.e transformer based...
read moreSolving Sudoku with Language Models - how will it fare against a solver?
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Experience
SCALE
AWS
DISTRIBUTED
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MONOLITH
Amazon
2021 - 2024
Software Development Engineer II
NPU
TENSOR
SNAPDRAGON
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LATENCY
Qualcomm
2019 - 2021
ML Hardware Acceleration Engineer
MOVIDIUS
VPU
NEURAL
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x86
Intel
2017 - 2018
ML Hardware Acceleration Intern
Education
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University of Toronto
Honours B.Sc. Computer Science
2014 - 2019
Things I Love
Machine Learning
Diffusion Models
Algorithms
Data Structures
Systems Design
Puzzles & Games
Tools of the Trade
Python
Java
TypeScript
React
Node.js
C++
PyTorch
AWS
SQL
Ruby