Ryan Richards
Senior AI Research Scientist at ARKA Group, LP
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Richards is an Enterprise Sales Engineer at Datadog with eight years of experience helping enterprises across the Ohio River Valley modernize cloud observability, performance monitoring, and AI-driven insights. He pairs hands-on technical fluency in cloud infrastructure and pre-sales strategy with applied AI experience from roles building LLM and data-driven solutions, enabling him to translate complex architectures into measurable business outcomes. Ryan’s background spans public sector regulatory systems to strategic partnerships with IBM and Lenovo, giving him a pragmatic sense of how technology impacts operations and communities. He excels at bridging technical and business stakeholders to design scalable, adoption-focused solutions that deliver immediate impact. Having lived and worked in multiple countries, he brings a global perspective and adaptability to stakeholder relationships and problem-solving. Outside work he channels curiosity into hands-on projects like landscaping and motorcycling, which reflects his blend of technical rigor and practical, results-oriented mindset.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Data Science, Master of Science, Data Science at University of WashingtonBachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering at Penn State University
English, Latin
Github Skills (11)
points7
labview6
espn6
csv-reader5
yolov75
darknet5
pytorch5
csv4
yolov44
player4
python4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rrichards7/SnowDrone-GUI-GCS
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:43 commits, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 21 days
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