Rafi Barash

About

I’m a software engineer at Google in Boulder, CO (commuting from Denver) and a proud alum of the University of Minnesota. I’m passionate about building fast, reliable, and user-focused products that make a real impact. Outside of work, you’ll usually find me playing tennis or basketball, exploring the mountains, or scouting out the Denver food scene. Always happy to chat — feel free to say hi below!

Connect With Me

Portfolio

Google Artifact Registry

My team at Google for the last 5 years. A universal package manager for all your build artifacts and dependencies.

Galaga Remake

An online 3D remake of the classic Galaga game. Uses Three.js for rendering and a physics engine I wrote for collision-detection/handling and the particle systems. School project.

Target Security Project

Developed a “safe analysis” web application tool that would enable security researchers to safely gather information on suspicious URLs. Group school project.

Single-Agent Motion Planning

Motion planning project that computes a PRM connecting an agent to a goal with A* search. Forces push agent towards goal and away from obstacles. School project.

Election Voting System

Election processing system in C++ that lets you select ballot data through a GUI, processes the data, and summarizes. School project.

Global City Data

A project for the University of Minnesota to host descriptions of open access urban data sets. Not used anymore :/

This Website

I built this very website! It is a static React app and powered by Contentful and Netlify.

Braitenberg Vehicle Simulation

Simulated robots exhibiting behaviors like aggression and love towards external stimuli to produce complex behavior. School project.

Terminal Chat Room

Chat room with a central server handling any client entering, commenting in the chat, and leaving. School project.

ML Diabetes Risk Dashboard

A dashboard where users can login to see their health data and diabetes risk. Data visualized with Chart.js and risk model built with TensorFlow. Hackathon project.

ML March Madness

A machine learning attempt to predict results of march madness matchups, based on years of regular season and tourney data.

Planet Wars Strategy

Given a planet wars game engine, my friend and I created a strategy in Java to take over the solar system. Mwuahahaha! School project.

Blackjack

Play blackjack with as many players as you'd like against a computer dealer in this interactive Python script. Money updated in real time.

Forest Fire Simulation

A Python script visualizing a forest fire in turtle graphics, dynamically based on forest characteristic inputs. School project.

Hangman

An interactive Python script where you can play hangman against the computer, visualized in turtle graphics. School project.

HMU

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Built by Rafi Barash

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Currently on version 3 of my website · v2 · v1

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