Leadership · CTO
Rahul Patil
Was Stripe's CTO before joining in 2025. He now runs engineering across inference, product, infrastructure and security.
- Role
- Chief Technology Officer
- Joined Anthropic
- 2025
- Before Anthropic
- Stripe
Career
- Anthropic
- CTOSep 2025 – present
- Stripe
- CTOAug 2024 – Sep 2025
- Deputy CTOJan 2024 – Aug 2024
- Head of Infrastructure and Global OperationsJan 2023 – Jan 2024
- Head of InfrastructureMar 2020 – Jan 2023
- Oracle
- Senior Vice President, Oracle Cloud InfrastructureJul 2015 – Mar 2020
- Amazon Web Services
- Manager, Amazon Kinesis FirehoseJan 2014 – Jul 2015
- Microsoft
- Engineering and Management RolesMay 2004 – Dec 2013
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Education
- Master of Business Administration (MBA), University of Washington, 2011-2013
- M.S, Computer Science, Arizona State University, 2003-2004
- B.E, Computer Science, PESIT, 1998-2002
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Lesser-known facts
- Named one of TIME's Executives of the Year in tech and data, 2026.
- Studied computer science at PES in Bengaluru, then moved abroad in 2003 for an MS at Arizona State University.
- Spent nearly nine years in engineering and management roles at Microsoft, then became a manager on Amazon Kinesis in 2014.
- Oversaw more than 30 products across compute, storage, security and monitoring at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
- Started the My Little Bit foundation with one computer lab teaching girls Excel; it now funds STEM scholarships and job skills.
- Said in 2026: "We are happy to walk away from revenue if it means that we'll do the right thing and the safe thing."
- Joined Gusto's board of directors in December 2025.
Honors
TIME Executives of the Year (Tech & Data), 2026
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