Reid Draper

Director of Engineering

Chicago, IL, United States16 yrs 10 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in distributed systems and functional programming.
  • Led significant growth in engineering teams at Figma.
  • Developed innovative AI features for user experience.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on engineering leadership and AI integration.

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Skills

Other Skills

NoSQLRiakErlangRedisDistributed SystemsPythonGitClojureHaskellLinuxRubyRESTful architectureFunctional ProgrammingJavaScriptREST

About

Experienced software leader with expertise in distributed systems, databases, and functional programming.

Experience

16 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 9 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Figma

3 roles

Director of Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2026 – Present · 1 mo

Senior Engineering Manager, AI Assistant

Jul 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Built Actions, the entry-point and UI for Figma AI features. Working on some new stuff now I can't wait to show you.

Senior Engineering Manager, Developer Platform

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 4 mos

  • I lead engineering for Figma's external developer platform: plugins, widgets, REST API, and webhooks. I grew the team from 3 people to 13 and we shipped a bunch of high impact projects.

Github

3 roles

Sr. Engineering Manager, Dependency Graph

Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 · 2 yrs

Sr. Engineering Manager, Software Intelligence Systems

Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 · 2 yrs

Sr. Engineering Manager, High Availability

Jul 2017 – Jan 2018 · 6 mos

Helium systems inc

3 roles

VP Engineering

Sep 2016 – Apr 2017 · 7 mos

Director of Engineering

Promoted

Nov 2015 – Sep 2016 · 10 mos

Senior Software Engineer

Oct 2014 – Nov 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo

Basho technologies, inc

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2014 – Oct 2014 · 4 mos

Software Engineer

Sep 2011 – Oct 2014 · 3 yrs 1 mo

The echo nest

Software Engineer

Sep 2009 – Sep 2011 · 2 yrs

Stubble llc

Co-creator

Apr 2009 – Sep 2009 · 5 mos

  • Devised, tested, tuned and optimized an algorithm for delivering mobile music recommendations (Objective-
  • C, Python).

Education

University of Miami

B.M

Jan 2005 – Jan 2009

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