Megan Risdal
Kaggle Head Of Product, Group Product Manager at Google DeepMind
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolMegan Risdal is a product leader with a decade of experience building developer-focused platforms and open-knowledge ecosystems, currently leading Kaggle as Head of Product within Google DeepMind. She has driven high-impact launches—from Kaggle Datasets and competition tooling to Google’s Gemma family of open weights—bridging research, engineering, and large external partnerships like Hugging Face and NVIDIA. Known for scaling community programs, she founded Kaggle’s Developer Advocacy team and created the Data Science for Good and SLICED game-show initiatives that blend technical outreach with creative engagement. Her background in linguistics and quantitative research informs a data-driven, human-centered approach to product decisions and developer tooling. Comfortable operating across orgs and levels, she’s repeatedly secured funding and built permanent teams to sustain open-model efforts. Based in Toronto, she combines scholarly rigor with playful community instincts to make complex ML capabilities broadly usable.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Psychology & French, Bachelor’s Degree Psychology & French at University of Wisconsin-Eau ClaireStudy Abroad French Language Studies, Study Abroad French Language Studies at Université de Pau et des Pays de L'ArdourMaster’s Degree Sociolinguistics, Master’s Degree Sociolinguistics at North Carolina State UniversityMusic Performance (Oboe), Music Performance (Oboe) at Lawrence UniversityUniversity of California, Los Angeles
French, English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
api10
python9
kaggle9
machine-learning8
docker-image7
pip6
jupyter-notebook6
gpu6
scikit-learn6
data-repository6
jupyter6
ubuntu6
creative-commons5
datasets5
docker5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mrisdal/blog
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:41 commits, 102 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
mrisdal/canto-podcast-creator
Dec 2022 - Apr 2023
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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