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10 Rippling engineering leaders
These ten current and former Rippling engineering leaders, including Rippling's CTO, have held CTO, senior vice president, vice president and director of engineering roles at the company. Readers can learn how they organize engineering teams and set technical priorities for HR, IT and finance software.
Professionals to explore
01—10Albert Strasheim
LinkedInExperience: CTO and SVP Engineering · Rippling
Albert Strasheim has been CTO and SVP Engineering at Rippling since August 2022, a C-level role in the company's engineering and technical department. The profile describes Rippling as a workforce management system that combines HR, IT and finance apps.
Cole Goeppinger
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Engineering · Rippling
Cole Goeppinger was Senior Director of Engineering at Rippling from April 2025 to June 2026, leading the Talent Products engineering teams (ATS, LMS, Surveys, Performance Management, Headcount Planning and Talent Signal), and Director of Engineering at Rippling from 2023 to 2025. The current role listed is Engineering Lead of Network Enablement and Access (NEA) at Plaid, since July 2026.
Kartik Sura
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering Employment Products · Rippling
Kartik Sura has been Director of Engineering Employment Products at Rippling since March 2025 and was Director of Engineering Revenue Mechanics at Rippling from January 2023 to March 2025. The profile also lists Senior Engineering Manager at Twitter (2021–2022) and Staff tech lead manager at Uber (2019–2021).
Malte Buecken
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Engineering · Rippling
Malte Buecken has been Senior Director of Engineering at Rippling since August 2024, leading engineering for Rippling's finance app product suite (corporate cards, payments, travel, expense management and accounting integrations) across NYC and Bangalore. The profile also lists Director Of Engineering at Paxos (2022–2024).
Nitin Shantharam
LinkedInExperience: VP, Engineering · Rippling
Nitin Shantharam has been VP, Engineering at Rippling since December 2025, a role listed at the President/Vice President level in engineering. The profile also lists Senior Director, Engineering at Credit Karma (2024–2025) and Director II, Engineering at Credit Karma (2021–2024).
Sonia Parandekar
LinkedInExperience: SVP Engineering and India Site Lead · Rippling
Sonia Parandekar has been SVP Engineering and India Site Lead at Rippling since March 2026. The profile also lists Head of Engineering for Commerce at Atlassian (2019–2026), Head of Engineering for Marketplace at Atlassian (2018–2019) and VP of Engineering at Urban Ladder (2017–2018).
Sriram Ganesan
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Engineering · Rippling
Sriram Ganesan was Senior Director of Engineering at Rippling from April 2023 to January 2025, leading global payroll and payments, and Director of Engineering at Rippling from April 2022 to March 2023. The profile also lists Principal Engineer at Rippling (2025–2026).
Venkatesh Nannan
LinkedInExperience: Director · Rippling
Venkatesh Nannan has been Director at Rippling since April 2025, leading the Compute Infrastructure organization across Cloud, Traffic, DevEx and CodeShip teams, and was Senior Engineering Manager at Rippling from 2021 to 2025. The profile also lists Director - Platform and Technologies at Redflex (2019–2021).
Vitaliy Stulski
LinkedInExperience: VP of Engineering · Rippling
Vitaliy Stulski has been VP of Engineering at Rippling since February 2026. The profile also lists Finance Engineering at Coinbase (2021–2026), Engineering Leadership at Uber (2017–2021), Sr. Director at Oracle (2013–2017) and Founder of Build-A-Map (2009–2013).
Wan Agus
LinkedInExperience: SVP Engineering - IT Products and Core Experiences · Rippling
Wan Agus has been SVP Engineering - IT Products and Core Experiences at Rippling since November 2025. The profile also lists Chief Technology Officer at Credit Karma (2024–2025), a role it says covered Product Engineering and Platform, and VP Of Engineering at Credit Karma (2020–2024).
Choose the right perspective
Match the leader's product area or infrastructure scope to your question, since a platform or infrastructure leader sees different tradeoffs than someone running a single product line. Check each role's dates to know whether the person's Rippling experience is current or from an earlier period.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you decide which capabilities belong in a shared platform and which stay with individual product teams?
- 02How do you structure engineering teams across multiple locations while keeping ownership of each product clear?
- 03What changes in engineering process and hiring once an organization grows past a few hundred engineers?
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