Ryan Drapeau
Principal Machine Learning Engineer at Stripe
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Drapeau is a Principal Machine Learning Engineer with 12 years of experience building production ML systems, currently leading Stripe’s Intelligent Commerce organization and the Payment Intelligence pillar. He’s driven fraud and payment intelligence efforts at Stripe since 2019, scaling Radar and Payment Fraud teams into organization-wide tech leadership roles. Prior to Stripe, he led ML systems at Facebook focused on detecting hate speech and bullying across Facebook and Instagram, and his early work includes accessibility features at Google and published academic research from the University of Washington. Based in Seattle, he blends research rigor with production-scale engineering, emphasizing robust detection systems that operate under real-world constraints. A pragmatic technical lead, he has a track record of shipping high-impact products—from accessibility tooling and autonomous-vehicle competitions to consumer apps with hundreds of thousands of downloads—showing a breadth that spans research, product, and reliable deployment.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Washington
Github Skills (7)
javascript6
react6
python2
typescript1
boilerplate1
adblock1
webpack1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rdrapeau/Perkinput
Oct 2013 - Jun 2014
Contributions:62 commits in 7 months
rdrapeau/CourseRatings
May 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:118 commits, 10 pushes in 2 months
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