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= Rafeh Qazi = Rafeh Qazi (born July 14, 1994), is a computer programmer, Youtuber and the founder of Clever Programmer.

In 2016, Qazi started his YouTube channel, Clever Programmer, where he was making videos about coding for himself to watch that could help him out as he was studying Computer Science.

In late 2016, Qazi dropped a free course teaching people about Python. His goal was to motivate people to learn programming without getting into enormous student loan debt. Instead people can use the tools taught by him to get jobs and kick start their careers. He started created and teaching courses online.

In 2019, Qazi’s company, Clever Programmer expanded to add more developers. He went from 3 employees to 15 within the last year. His YouTube channel has grown from 0- 700,000 subscribers in 3 years as well.

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Early Life
Qazi was born in Peshawar, Pakistan. His father, Faheem Qazi, worked as a Bank President in Pakistan. His mother, Kausar Faheem, is a housewife.

Qazi came to the United States in 2003 with his mother, father and two older brothers- Najmus Qazi and Waqas Qazi. His family settled in the Chicago area.

Qazi’s father taught him how to play chess at the age of 6. During his freshman year of high school, his Physics teacher, Mr. Harry Kyriazes,recognized his potential and invited him to join the school’s chess team. Qazi officially joined The Niles North High School Chess Team. The team won state championships in 2009 and 2012.

Playing chess requires a lot of focus. This is what got Qazi prepared for his career of programming. The mental flow state of chess requires concentration and the ability to focus for a long period of time which is very important when it comes to programming.

College
After high school, Qazi enrolled at Oakton Community College. When deciding a major, he wanted to do something that made him a lot of money so he can provide for his parents. When he got into coding, he realized the possibilities were endless and that amazed him. He received his associate’s degree in Computer Science.

Qazi started going to UIC University of Illinois in Chicago in September 2015 to major in Computer Science.

During that time, he was teaching himself a lot of coding and started freelancing. While enrolled at UIC, one of his college professors asked Qazi for career advice. At that moment he realized that the University path was not for him.

He stopped attending UIC in Dec 2016.

YouTube Channel - Clever Programmer
Before leaving college, Qazi had already started a YouTube channel, Clever Programmer, and had a freelancing development business making over $10,000 a month. Leaving UIC allowed Qazi to further grow his business, Clever Programmer.

When he started his YouTube channel, Qazi was making videos for himself to watch that could help him out later. Surprisingly, it started getting traction from viewers. Qazi made a series of videos about Codecademy- where he walked thru a breakdown of the lessons on the site. Many viewers found it valuable and started following him.

By 2020, his YouTube channel has taught millions of people coding skills. Qazi is equipping his viewers with the knowledge to land jobs at the best companies.

Clever Programmer Courses
Qazi realized that no one was making learning programming easy to understand. Programming seemed boring to learn and often people would lose interest. He was inspired to cultivate Clever Programmer because he realized that he could actually help others. He was sick of seeing people quit programming because they were taught wrongly. He sought out to create his own educational system to help aspiring developers.

He made his content with energy and passion to keep people engaged. He wanted a course that is fun and would keep people motivated. The best part is that they would have zero school debt as they go to land a job.

In 2017 Qazi moved from Illinois to Hollywood to be around like-minded content creators in order to scale his business.

In 2019, Qazi’s company, Clever Programmer expanded to add more developers. He went from 3 employees to 15 within the last year. His YouTube channel has grown from 0- 700,000 subscribers in 3 years as well.

His business is an extremely fast-growing tech education start up located in the heart of Hollywood.

Qazi wants to help create the most amount of developers on the planet and are here to change the world.