Arash Rai
Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Stripe
Waterloo, Ontario, United States
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Top SchoolArash Rai is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years of software engineering experience and a Software Engineering degree from the University of Waterloo, currently driving ML efforts at Stripe in Seattle. He blends production ML expertise with strong backend and infrastructure skills developed through progressive roles at Stripe and internships at Citadel, Airbnb, and Formlabs. Arash has hands-on open-source experience improving image processing robustness—contributing GIF loop-handling fixes to the widely used imageio Python library—illustrating attention to correctness in edge-case behavior. Comfortable across the stack, he focuses on making complex models reliable and scalable in production while mentoring teams and shaping ML infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Abbotsford Traditional Secondary SchoolBachelor of Software Engineering, Bachelor of Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, Punjabi, French, Hindi
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Github Skills (2)
image-processing10
python10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
imageio/imageio
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
Python library for reading and writing image data
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 3 comments in 22 days
Contributions summary:Arash primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of GIF image processing within the imageio library. Their work involved modifying the `pillowmulti.py` plugin to correctly handle looping behavior, including disabling looping when appropriate and addressing issues related to the `loop` parameter. They also made adjustments to the application extension to ensure correct loop handling in GIF files. The user's changes ensured that the imageio library correctly manages loop functionality when saving and writing GIF images.
python-libraryopenexrimageiopythonimage
arashrai/are-you-the-one-but-with-math
Apr 2021 - Jul 2022
Some CS grads mathematically determine the optimal strategy to the trashy show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Are_You_the_One%3F
Contributions:2 reviews, 11 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 3 months
gradsstrategywikipediaare-you-the-onedetermine
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