Nauman Rafique
Co-founder/CEO Visum AI | Ex-Google
- Role
- Co-founder at Visum Ai
- Location
- Mountain View, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Nauman Rafique
A seasoned engineering leader and entrepreneur with more than 15 years of experience in driving innovation in core computer systems space, delivering almost impossible projects with little resources and managing highly productive teams. Now bringing cutting edge computer vision AI to real world applications.Deep expertise in cloud infrastructure from low levels of the storage stack (linux IO schedulers, filesystems, high performance IO stacks), to standing up full enterprise grade products from scratch. Well versed in driving cross functional collaborations across the hardware/software stack, from firmware engineering, all the way to application programming; but truly passionate about solutions that encompass both hardware and software. Experienced in collaborating with open source developers, and working with third party vendors to deliver high quality end to end solutions.My adventures in the past include introducing containers to linux IO schedulers, building high performance storage stack on SSDs, deploying ultra high performance SSDs at scale and driving wider adoption across all Google workloads, making linux kernel IO scale with distributed backends, spearheading hardware offloads for IO, and heading Google\'s cloud baremetal offering.
Experience
Co-founder
Feb 2025 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US
Building the physical intelligence layer for data centers
Education
Purdue University
PhD, Computer Engineering
2002 — 2008
Government College University, Lahore
FSc
1995 — 1997
Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering and Technology
BS, EE
1997 — 2001
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