Summary
Philip Youssef is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building consumer products, scalable APIs, and full-stack ML systems across companies like Microsoft AI, Rippling, Stripe, and Twitter. He co-founded and led Rippling’s Applied Machine Learning team, shipping ML-powered products and platforms including the Talent Signal analytics tool, and now works on Copilot at Microsoft AI. Philip blends hands-on engineering with product leadership—taking ideas from prototype to production quickly (eg. Stripe’s fiat-to-crypto onramp shipped in 10 months) and refactoring core systems to unlock future growth. He’s equally comfortable designing developer-facing APIs and building end-to-end ML/LLM infrastructure, with deep experience in payments, fraud, and HR systems. Based in Seattle, he runs a technical blog and maintains an active GitHub presence, reflecting a curiosity for practical tooling and human-scale impact. An understated thread through his career is a knack for standardizing developer experiences and observability to make large orgs move faster.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Electrical, Bachelor of Engineering Electrical at McGill University
English, French