Ryan Barnes is a cyber crime analytics leader with 11 years of experience building high-impact fraud detection systems and leading cross-functional teams. He has scaled fraud prevention at Mountain America CU from algorithm design to production, organizing an 18-person team that helped prevent over $100M in fraud in a single year and automated 90% of card-fraud workflows. Skilled in ML, Bayesian networks, SQL, and operationalizing models, he has a track record of spotting compromises before public disclosure and deploying models that save six figures monthly. Now leading cyber crime analytics at Group 1001, he combines academic rigor (PhD-level economics) with hands-on engineering to turn transaction data into proactive risk controls. Outside work he writes about data strategy on his analytics blog, offering practical ideas for turning analytics into measurable business defense.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Economics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Economics at Utah State University
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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Ryan Barnes - Cyber Crime Analytics Lead at Group 1001