Today’s Top Talent Pools
Ramp, a 7-year-old NYC fintech providing corporate cards, expense management, procurement, and AI-powered financial operations, raised $750M at a $44B valuation. ICONIQ, GIC, and Ontario Teachers' co-led, joined by Goldman Sachs, D.E. Shaw, Morgan Stanley, Generation Investment Mgmt, Insight, BroadLight, Founders Fund, Lightspeed, D1, T. Rowe Price, General Catalyst, Thrive, Coatue, Khosla, and others. Over $1B annualized revenue. $200B annualized purchase volume. 70,000+ customers.
TK Kong in NYC (Stealth @ Concept)
Role: 20th FTE & Ramp Labs Lead & Head of Procurement @ Ramp (4 yrs)
Other Experience: Co-Founder & CEO @ Venue (Sequoia-backed, acq by Ramp), Product Designer @ Facebook, Cornell BS
Description: "We've been heads down building personalized AI coworkers for every business. We’re growing our team of researchers, designers, and IMO gold medalists. Reach out if you're interested!”
Contact: Twitter
Calix Huang in SF (Stealth)
Role: Engineering @ Ramp (<1 yr)
Other Experience: 13th FTE & MTS @ Mercor, Co-Founder @ Stealth (YC W23), Founder @ Hours (acq by Fiveable, 2M+ users), Head of Special Projects @ Fiveable
Description: Stealth since 3/26
Contact: Site
Pablo Meier in SF (Stealth)
Role: Founding Engineer & Engineering Director @ Ramp (4.5 yrs)
Other Experience: SWE @ Lyft, Eng Manager @ ClassPass, SWE @ Google, SWE @ Adobe, Brown BS CS + BA Music
Description: “it's ya boi, cooking things up”
Contact: Site
Will Ye in SF (Potential Founder)
Role: Sr SWE & Founding Member of Applied AI @ Ramp (2.5 yrs)
Other Experience: 1st Employee & SWE @ Cohere ($4M from YC, BoxGroup, Initializaed —> acq by Ramp), SWE @ AWS, Duke BS CS
Description: Left Ramp 2/26
Contact: [email protected]
Roland Shen in NYC (Potential Founder)
Role: Engineering Tech Lead @ Ramp (3 yrs)
Other Experience: Engineering @ US Treasury, 1st Employee @ Fig (acq by AWS), Co-Founder @ Imprint
Description: "Building something new"
Aaron Yodaiken in NYC (Stealth)
Role: Principal SWE @ Ramp (3 yrs)
Other Experience: SWE Lead @ Butterfly Network, Co-Founder @ Upward Messaging, Columbia BA
Description: Stealth since 9/25
Aditya Singh in NYC (Stealth)
Role: Product Management @ Ramp (4 yrs)
Other Experience: IB Analyst @ Evercore, Strategy & Biz Ops @ CloudKitchens, Co-Founder @ CounteractIO
Description: Stealth since 5/26
Eric Appel in SF (Stealth)
Role: 1st Mobile Engineer & Principal iOS @ Ramp (2.5 yrs)
Other Experience: Staff iOS Engineer @ Robinhood, Lead iOS @ Rogo, Lead iOS @ Rox, iOS, Cornell BS
Description: "Consumer AI app."
Thomas Forrest in NYC (Stealth)
Role: Engineering @ Ramp (2.5 yrs)
Other Experience: Engineering @ Stripe, Engineering @ Render
Description: Stealth since 8/25
Contact: [email protected]
CJ Enright in NYC (Stealth)
Role: Staff SWE @ Ramp (2 yrs)
Other Experience: CTO & Founding Engineer @ July, SWE @ Apple
Description Stealth since 3/26
Contact: Site
Max Lahey in NYC (Stealth)
Role: Principal SWE & Director of Engineering @ Ramp (5 yrs)
Other Experience: Sr SWE @ Twitter, SWE @ Google, Co-Founder @ Flipswitch, SWE @ Stripe
Description: Stealth since 4/26
Gyalpo Dongo Aguirre in SF (Potential Founder)
Role: Engineering @ Ramp (1 yr)
Other Experience: Co-Founder & CEO @ Entiendo (Neo '23), Engineering @ Oracle, Fulbright Scholar, MIT BS & MEng AI
Description: Left Ramp 2025
Contact: [email protected], GitHub
Saai Arora in Toronto (CTO & Co-Founder @ Replicas)
Role: SWE @ Ramp (<1 yr)
Other Experience: 1st Hire & Founding Engineer @ General Context Labs, U Waterloo BS CS
Description: "Run any coding agent harness in the cloud"
Funding: Backed by YC P26.
Kishan Sripada in SF (Co-Founder @ Orange Slice)
Role: SWE Intern @ Ramp (1 yr)
Other Experience: Founder @ FORMI (80K users)
Description: "AI-native data enrichment spreadsheet for sales teams"
Funding: Backed by YC.
Patrick Cui in NYC (Co-Founder @ Doorman)
Role: Product Designer @ Ramp (<1 yr)
Other Experience: Co-Founder @ Integral, Product Designer @ GitHub, Neo Scholar, UC Berkeley BS EECS
Description: "Eliminating cell phone distraction in every classroom”
Funding: Backed by Reach Capital
Sophia Deng in SF (Stealth)
Role: Head of Business Operations @ Ramp (1 yr)
Other Experience: Member @ South Park Commons, GPM @ Remote, Director Ops & Product @ Gigster, PM @ Instacart, Princeton BA Philosophy
Description: "Consumer AI"
Vinai Rachakonda in NYC (Stealth)
Role: Sr SWE @ Ramp (2.5 yrs)
Other Experience: Member @ South Park Commons, Managing Partner @ Dorm Room Fund, UPenn CS + Wharton BS
Description: "Solving the affordability problem for the real economy"
Funding: Backed by Better Tomorrow Ventures + a16z Speedrun.
Josiah Parappally in NYC (Stealth)
Role: Staff SWE @ Ramp (4 yrs)
Other Experience: U Waterloo BS CS
Description: Stealth since 3/26
Contact: Site
Shivam Patel in NYC (Stealth)
Role: Staff Engineer & Tech Lead @ Ramp (2 yrs)
Other Experience: Engineering & Research @ Polychain Capital, Engineering @ CaptivateIQ, Engineering @ AWS, UC Berkeley BS CS
Description: "Building for in-house teams"
Mason Zhang in SF (Co-Founder @ Autochrome)
Role: Sr SWE @ Ramp (1.5 yrs)
Other Experience: Brown BS CS + Philosophy
Description: "The AI video studio”
Contact: [email protected]
