My name is Ryan Paul. I am an engineer at Stripe, where I work on the company’s product documentation platform. I am the creator of Markdoc, an open source content authoring and publishing framework based on Markdown. In my free time, I dabble with electronic music and write articles for various internet publications.

I originally joined Stripe in 2016 as the company’s third technical writer. I later pivoted into an engineering role in order to help modernize the company’s product documentation platform and improve the authoring experience. In my role at Stripe, I maintain Markdoc and develop new tools that improve content authoring with Markdoc.

Before joining Stripe, I worked in evangelism roles at RethinkDB and Xamarin where I spent much of my time building demo applications, presenting at conferences, and writing tutorials. I used to be a contributing editor at Ars Technica, where I covered Linux, software development, and emerging web standards. I’ve written articles for a range of other publications, including Linux Journal, Linux Magazine, and Jax. I’ve also presented talks at a number of conferences and meetups.