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Rahul Sengottuvelu

Chief Technology Officer (named CTO July 2026; previously head of applied AI), Ramp.

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Co-founded and was CTO of Cohere, which Ramp bought in 2023; led Ramp's applied AI group before succeeding Karim Atiyeh as CTO; co-author of the background-agent post.

Why their word counts: Runs the engineering org whose Inspect numbers Sengottuvelu discusses, so first-hand but promotional for Ramp; title as reported by Banking Dive, not Ramp's own site.

Profile from this source, checked 2026-10-19.