Engineering professionals in HR technology

Payroll, workforce management and HCM platforms sit behind these HR technology engineering titles: two each at Rippling and UKG, plus Workday, Gusto, Employ, PeopleStrong, Zwayam and Mewurk HR, with employment products, scheduling and forecasting and core HCM AI named in the titles. A call fits decisions on payroll and global employment products, workforce scheduling, applicant tracking integrations or adding AI agents to an HR platform.

10 professionals8 companiesData retrieved October 1, 2026

Professionals to explore

  1. Anukriti Gupta

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    Experience: Senior Engineering Manager · PeopleStrong

    At PeopleStrong, Anukriti Gupta has gone from Associate Software Engineer (2017–2019), SDE-I (2019–2021) and SDE-II (2021–2023) to Engineering Manager (2023–2025) and Senior Engineering Manager since 2025. Gupta describes 9 years of product engineering in HR tech and modernizing HR products with AI, a fit for questions on growing an HR product engineering team.

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  2. David Nadeau

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    Experience: Vice President of Engineering WFM Scheduling and Forecasting · UKG

    David Nadeau has been Vice President of Engineering WFM Scheduling and Forecasting at UKG since 2025 and was Head of Engineering at Autodesk (2023–2025). Nadeau also held Director Of Software Development & Product Management at Amazon (2020–2023) and Sr. Director of Global Engineering (2016–2019) and Managing Director - UK (2014–2016) at CAE, a fit for workforce scheduling and forecasting questions.

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  3. Kartik Sura

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    Experience: Director of Engineering Employment Products · Rippling

    Kartik Sura has been Director of Engineering Employment Products at Rippling since 2025 and was Director of Engineering Revenue Mechanics there (2023–2025). Sura also held Senior Engineering Manager at Twitter (2021–2022), Staff tech lead manager at Uber (2019–2021) and Software Engineer at Square (2017–2019), and describes working closely with legal, fraud and safety teams on launches.

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  4. Matt Daley

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    Experience: Director of Engineering · Rippling

    Matt Daley has been Director of Engineering at Rippling since 2025, working on the HRIS Platform and Global Expansion Products (EOR and Global Payroll). Daley was Senior Engineering Manager at Google (2022–2025), VP of Engineering at OneSignal (2020–2022), Engineering Manager at Meta (2018–2020) and CTO at AeroFS (acquired by Redbooth) (2017–2018), a fit for global payroll questions.

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  5. Matt Shannon

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    Experience: Head of Engineering, Core Experiences AI · Gusto

    Head of Engineering titles at Gusto and Square show both payroll and AI work for Matt Shannon: Core Experiences AI at Gusto since 2025, Embedded Payroll (Developer Platform) at Gusto (2022–2025) and Payroll at Square (2019–2022). Shannon was also Engineering Manager at Lyft (2018–2019) and Head of Engineering at Clover Health (2015–2018), so covers both payroll infrastructure and AI features.

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  6. Nimesh Prabhakar

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    Experience: Manager, Engineering · Employ

    Jobvite, JazzHr and Lever are the Employ products Nimesh Prabhakar names; Prabhakar has been Manager, Engineering at Employ since 2021, with Senior Technical Lead (2018–2021) and Technical Lead (2017) roles there. Over 18+ years, Prabhakar describes architecting API-first shared services and integrations for HR tech and ATS platforms, a fit for applicant tracking integration questions.

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  7. Rakesh Ravikumar

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    Experience: Sr. Director of Engineering AI Engineering · UKG

    AI strategy and engineering decisions with executive stakeholders are what Rakesh Ravikumar describes leading, as Sr. Director of Engineering AI Engineering at UKG since 2025. Ravikumar's other UKG roles were Sr. Director of Engineering Platform Foundations (2023–2025), Director Of Engineering (2021–2023) and Senior Manager Software Engineering (2018–2021), with Manager Software Engineering at Ultimate Software (2014–2018).

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  8. Reshma Hariharan

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    Experience: VP Engineering SaaS & HR Technology · Zwayam

    Recruitment and workforce platforms are the focus of the 14+ years in HR tech Reshma Hariharan describes, including VP Engineering SaaS & HR Technology at Zwayam since 2017. At Wipro, Hariharan held Workforce management & Talent Management (2008–2017) and Project Manager Team Lead (2000–2007) roles, a fit for questions on engineering a recruiting product.

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  9. Roshan Joseph

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    Experience: Director of Engineering · Mewurk HR

    Payroll and HR automation for SMEs, along with AI-powered workforce platforms, cloud native SaaS on Azure and microservices, is the focus Roshan Joseph names as Director of Engineering at Mewurk HR since 2025. Joseph was Associate Director there (2021–2025) and a Solution Architect at ITC Infotech (2014–2021), which suits questions on building payroll automation for smaller employers.

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  10. Steve Chui

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    Experience: Engineering Director HCM Core Product & AI · Workday

    AI agents and agentic products on the core HCM platform are what Steve Chui leads engineering for as Engineering Director HCM Core Product & AI at Workday since 2022. Chui was Senior Engineering Manager, Enterprise API Platforms (2018–2022) and Senior Engineering Manager, Internal Tools & Developer Platform (2014–2018) at Workday, a fit for questions on AI agents and APIs in HCM software.

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Choose the right perspective

Payroll and global employment questions fit Matt Shannon, Matt Daley and Kartik Sura, and workforce scheduling and forecasting fit David Nadeau. For AI on an HR platform, Steve Chui, Rakesh Ravikumar and Matt Shannon; for recruiting and applicant tracking, Nimesh Prabhakar and Reshma Hariharan; Roshan Joseph and Anukriti Gupta cover HR and payroll products at Mewurk HR and PeopleStrong.

Questions to take into the conversation

  1. 01What makes payroll and tax calculations across many jurisdictions hard to keep correct as rules change?
  2. 02How do you design HR platform APIs and integrations so customers' other systems stay in sync with employee records?
  3. 03Where do AI agents help in an HR product today, and where do privacy or accuracy concerns rule them out?

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