Nathaniel Saul
Engineering Manager at Stripe
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolNathaniel Saul is an engineering manager and former machine learning engineer with 11 years of experience building production ML systems, MLOps pipelines, and model monitoring across companies like Stripe, New Relic, and OpenSesame. Based in Portland, he blends hands-on model development (merchant industry identification, anomaly detection) with platform work—training management, CI/CD, and data pipelines—often in AWS and modern infra like Terraform, dbt, SageMaker, and Snowflake. He has an academic foundation in topology-informed ML from his MS work, created widely used scikit-tda packages, and presented at conferences, giving him a rare combo of research depth and pragmatic engineering. Known internally as “Mr. Supportability,” he now leads teams at Stripe to improve observability and operational resilience for ML services.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Mathematics, Master of Science - MS Mathematics at Washington State University VancouverAssociate of Science (A.S.) Mathematics and Computer Science, Associate of Science (A.S.) Mathematics and Computer Science at Walla Walla Community CollegeBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Mathematics at University of Hawaii at Manoa
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
projection10
python10
forge10
topological-data-analysis10
representations10
clustering-evaluation10
approximation10
cluster-analysis10
dimensionality-reduction10
scikit10
statistics10
mapper10
data-science10
uniform10
clustering-algorithm10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
scikit-tda/sktda-docs-config
Mar 2019 - Jan 2021
Settings common across all scikit-tda doc sites
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 10 months
pythontdasitessettingsscikit
sauln/ripser.py
Apr 2018 - Jan 2019
Ripser: A Lean Persistent Homology Library for Python
Contributions:2 PRs, 157 pushes, 9 branches in 9 months
pythonpersistent-homologyquantilereductionpersistent
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