CTO @Rippling. American South African.
San Francisco
Joined December 2011
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Having flashbacks to when I was reading about computer worms spreading over "the internet" in SA Computer Buyer and PC Magazine as a teenager in the 1990s. "Excited" to be living through our own repeat of this particular bit of history! 😅
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1/ When you buy software, you’re also paying for a team to keep deciding how it should improve. You give feedback, but you don’t have to specify every change.
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It’s time! Registration for Rippling’s first-ever user conference, XFN, is now open!
AI is changing what’s possible in HR, IT, and Finance. A new kind of operator is emerging: someone who’s put AI to work on business-critical workflows, like payroll, compliance, and workforce design, so their people can move faster.
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Our IT agent can tell you why your laptop is slow all on its own.
It can also diagnose what’s wrong, approve a new one, file a replacement and send it to your home—all within policy.
That split—AI for ambiguity, deterministic policy for execution—was an interesting design challenge for our engineers.
Read more in our latest eng blog: rippling.com/blog/separating…
RT @kleinerperkins: Everyone's building AI agents. Almost nobody's solved the part where the agent knows what it's not allowed to see.
@Ri…
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Today, we’re shipping updates to @Rippling AI that make it easier to deploy data connections, skills, and automations safely across your org. They’re available to every employee, but they’re managed centrally and they’re auditable.
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Rippling AI Lab is now live in Bengaluru!
Our new AI engineering hub is focused on building trusted AI for businesses, from agents and models to the infrastructure, evaluations, and sandboxing.
Bengaluru has been central to Rippling’s engineering story from the beginning. Rippling AI Lab will help shape the next generation of AI-powered business software.
Nice to see the @typesafeai sales team replying to emails at 6:33 PM on a Friday. Guess someone forgot to send them the memo about pacing the frontier... 😅
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Today, @Rippling is launching IT Helpdesk, an AI agent that automatically resolves the most tedious IT support issues.
Like, "can u reset my password plz"
And, "I need a Figma license"
And, "spilled coffee on my laptop :(" 🧵
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Today we launched the @Rippling MCP server. A product we've worked relentlessly on to make your agents go "oh hell yea."
Most companies treat shipping an MCP server like checking a box. They repackage APIs built for humans and call it done. We did the opposite. Rippling lets agents write code to do the work and return only the answer. See how we built it: rpl-link.vercel.app/rpl-ENDj
This acquisition makes a lot of sense to me. Excited to see what this injection of new tech does for the AWS big data ecosystem.
Today, @ducklabs_com is joining @awscloud. The move is expected to be completed by early September.
Joining AWS gives DuckLabs the resources and reach to bring DuckDB, DuckLake, and the Quack protocol to many more developers and organizations – and to pursue ideas at a scale that would have been difficult for us to reach alone.
The DuckLabs team will remain together in Amsterdam and will continue working for the Duck Stack community as an AWS subsidiary.
Most importantly, #DuckDB and the other open source components of the Duck Stack will remain free and open source under the MIT license, with the non-profit DuckDB Foundation continuing its stewardship of the projects.
This is a significant moment for DuckLabs and the Duck Stack community. It marks the end of one chapter that we are immensely proud of, and the beginning of another that we believe will take DuckDB much further.
Read the full announcement here: ducklabs.com/ducklabs-is-joi…
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Rippling MCP gateway - part of our larger AI governance suite - is available today:
rippling.com/blog/introducin…
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Another big launch: Rippling AI Spend Console. Dashboards yes, but also a model router to control spend, and lineage analysis w/ Github data to directly measure engineering ROI. It really works! Our internal results in thread 🧵👇
... rippling.com/platform/ai/ai-…
Excited to share the results of 3 years of Rippling Engineering cooking some sweet, sweet capabilities at the core of our data and AI platform 🚀
We launched Rippling Data Cloud today - an all-in-one rebuild of the modern data stack, with AI deeply integrated throughout.
Why would you want an org-and-employee-centric data stack? Well, here’s how I used Rippling Data Cloud to help with token burn and cut AI slop. 1/
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We just launched Business Banking* at @Rippling ... it’s going to simplify the daily lives of a lot of people in finance and HR.🧵
lfg dinostomp iykyk
The Agents SDK is now a runtime any agent framework can build on. Today we're opening up the Agents SDK primitives, with Flue as a first framework targeting Agents SDK, and rolling out agents in the dashboard.
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/thermo-nuclear-code-quality-review is not to be missed - unleashing this after a sloppy refactor turns up a ton of actionable fixes every time
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really impressed with @cursor_ai bugbot's ability to spot arcane issues in Python typing code - they cooked!