Zach Bruggeman

Principal engineer; founding engineer of Inspect, Ramp.

The Pragmatic Engineer describes Bruggeman as principal engineer and founding engineer of Inspect, who with Jason Quense built the first version of Inspect as a frontend engineer.

Why their word counts: Built the tool Bruggeman writes about, so Bruggeman knows how it is used; Bruggeman is also an employee describing the company's own tool.

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

Photo: Zach Bruggeman's own profile picture on X.

In their words

~30% of all pull requests merged to our frontend and backend repos are written by Inspect.

Zach BruggemanPrincipal engineer; founding engineer of Inspect · Practitioner, Ramp

Post: Why We Built Our Own Background Agent, Ramp engineering blog, January 12, 2026.

30% agent pr share, frontend and backend repos, as of 2026-01. Level not stated

Checked against the source [ Grade B ] Said in the last year Ramp: $1.5 billion revenue, annualized revenue (ARR), by early June 2026 Passage page

even when you have hundreds of sessions running in parallel

Zach BruggemanPrincipal engineer; founding engineer of Inspect · Practitioner, Ramp

Post: Why We Built Our Own Background Agent, Ramp engineering blog, January 12, 2026.

Checked against the source [ Grade B ] Said in the last year Ramp: $1.5 billion revenue, annualized revenue (ARR), by early June 2026 Passage page