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10 Ramp engineering leaders
These ten current and former Ramp engineering leaders include Ramp's co-founder and CTO along with directors of engineering who have led data platform, infrastructure, growth and payments work. Readers can learn how Ramp's engineering organization builds and scales its spend management product and the systems behind it.
Professionals to explore
01—10Akash Wadawadigi
LinkedInExperience: Director of Software Engineering · Ramp
Director of Software Engineering at Ramp since March 2025; his profile headline reads Director of Engineering, Growth and Employee #16 at Ramp. At Ramp he was also Staff Software Engineer (2023–2025), Senior Software Engineer (2021–2023) and Software Engineer (2020–2021).
Christopher Yancey
LinkedInExperience: Director of Software Engineering · Ramp
Director of Software Engineering at Ramp since October 2025, based in San Francisco per his profile, and Staff Software Engineer at Ramp (2024–2025). He was a Staff Software Engineer at Catch (2021–2024), Senior Software Engineer at Puzzle (2020–2021) and Software Engineering Manager at Affirm (2019–2020).
Eli Collis
LinkedInExperience: Director, Software Engineering · Ramp
Director, Software Engineering at Ramp since March 2024. At Ramp he was also Staff Software Engineer (2023–2024) and Senior Software Engineer (2022–2023), and he was Director of Engineering (2021–2022) and Principal Software Engineer (2020–2021) at Pillar.
Jun Isaji
LinkedInExperience: Director - Cloud Infrastructure · Ramp
Former Director - Cloud Infrastructure at Ramp (2022–2024), a role listed in New York City, and former Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure at Ramp (2020–2021). Other listed roles are Staff Software Engineer (2019–2020), Senior Software Engineer (2017–2019) and Software Engineer (2016–2017) at Affirm.
Karim Atiyeh
LinkedInExperience: Co-Founder, CTO Ramp · Ramp
Co-Founder, CTO Ramp since March 2019, based in New York City per his profile, which lists the role in Ramp's General Management department at the Founder level. The profile describes Ramp as a spend management platform that combines global corporate cards, travel, expenses and accounts payable.
Pablo Meier
LinkedInExperience: Founding Engineer, Engineering Director · Ramp
Founding Engineer, Engineering Director at Ramp since May 2019, a role listed in New York City; his profile says he built out systems and teams relating to payments and settlements. He was a SWE (T6) at Lyft (2017–2019), Engineering Manager at ClassPass (2017) and Director of Engineering at Reonomy (2015–2016).
Raphaël Beamonte
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering, Infrastructure · Ramp
Director of Engineering, Infrastructure at Ramp since February 2025. He was Technical Lead, Infrastructure & Security (2024–2025) and Technical Lead, Infrastructure (2023–2024) at Temporal Technologies, Staff Lead Engineer, Compute & Network Infrastructure at Stripe (2022) and Staff Production Engineer & Technical lead at Shopify (2019–2022).
Raymond Cox
LinkedInExperience: Director, Software Engineering · Ramp
Director, Software Engineering at Ramp since September 2024, a Director-level role per his profile, which also lists Staff Software Engineer at Ramp since April 2022. He was Technical Lead (2020–2022), Staff Software Engineer (2020–2022) and Sr. Software Engineer (2018–2020) at Drift, a Salesloft company.
Ryan Delgado
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering · Ramp
Director of Engineering at Ramp since March 2024; his profile says he leads an org of 20 engineers across five teams in Data Platform, owning all Data and AI infrastructure. At Ramp he was also Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform (2022–2024) and Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure (2021–2022), and he was Head of Data Engineering, Global Equities at Citadel (2019–2021).
Serge Nasr
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering · Ramp
Director of Engineering at Ramp since June 2020, a Director-level role in Ramp's Engineering and Technical department based in New York per his profile, whose headline reads Engineering at Ramp. He was a Software Engineer at Snap Inc. (2017–2020) and at LendUp (2016–2017).
Choose the right perspective
Match the leader's area to your question, since data platform, infrastructure, growth and payments teams each see different parts of Ramp's technology decisions. Check whether each person's Ramp role is current or ended and how long they have held it before asking about recent practices.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does a fast-growing fintech structure its engineering teams as headcount and product lines expand?
- 02What goes into building data and AI infrastructure that product teams across a fintech company can rely on?
- 03How do engineering leaders at a spend management company approach reliability for payments and settlements?
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