HR technology
Engineering professionals in HR technology
These ten engineering professionals lead or have led engineering at HR technology companies such as Workday, UKG, Rippling and Gusto, on HCM, payroll, recruiting and workforce management products. A reader can learn how HR software is built and adopted by employers, and which technical constraints shape its reliability, delivery and operating cost.
Professionals to explore
01—10Anukriti Gupta
LinkedInExperience: Senior Engineering Manager · PeopleStrong
Senior Engineering Manager at PeopleStrong since 2025. The highlight describes nine years driving product engineering, team growth and delivery in HR tech and modernizing HR products with AI. Other listed roles include Engineering Manager at PeopleStrong (2023–2025), SDE-II at PeopleStrong (2021–2023), SDE-I at PeopleStrong (2019–2021) and Associate Software Engineer at PeopleStrong (2017–2019).
David Nadeau
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Engineering WFM Scheduling and Forecasting · UKG
Vice President of Engineering WFM Scheduling and Forecasting at UKG since 2025. The highlight describes leading product and technical teams of over 900 employees and running Profit and Loss operations in Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom. Other listed roles include Head of Engineering at Autodesk (2023–2025), Director Of Software Development & Product Management at Amazon (2020–2023) and Sr. Director of Global Engineering at CAE (2016–2019).
Kartik Sura
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering Employment Products · Rippling
Director of Engineering Employment Products at Rippling since 2025. The highlight describes building products from ideation through V1 launch and V2 iterations, working with research, design, legal, fraud and safety teams, and writing server-side code for web-scale applications. Other listed roles include Director of Engineering Revenue Mechanics at Rippling (2023–2025), Senior Engineering Manager at Twitter (2021–2022) and Staff tech lead manager at Uber (2019–2021).
Matt Daley
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering · Rippling
Director of Engineering at Rippling since 2025. The highlight lists the HRIS Platform and Global Expansion Products (EOR and Global Payroll) and describes Rippling as a workforce management system. Other listed roles include Senior Engineering Manager at Google (2022–2025), VP of Engineering at OneSignal (2020–2022), Engineering Manager at Meta (2018–2020) and CTO at AeroFS (acquired by Redbooth) (2017–2018).
Matt Shannon
LinkedInExperience: Head of Engineering, Core Experiences AI · Gusto
Head of Engineering, Core Experiences AI at Gusto since 2025. The highlight describes Gusto as an online payroll and HR solutions company offering automated deductions, direct deposit, tax filing, time and attendance tracking and time-off requests. Other listed roles include Head of Engineering, Embedded Payroll (Developer Platform) at Gusto (2022–2025), Head of Engineering, Payroll at Square (2019–2022) and Engineering Manager at Lyft (2018–2019).
Nimesh Prabhakar
LinkedInExperience: Manager, Engineering · Employ
Manager, Engineering at Employ since 2021. The highlight describes leading engineering teams that build the systems moving HR and recruiting at scale, with API-first shared services and integrations for HR tech and ATS platforms at Employ (Jobvite, JazzHr, Lever). Other listed roles include Senior Technical Lead at Employ (2018–2021), Technical Lead at Employ (2017) and Technical Lead - Product Development at London Creative Agency (2014–2017).
Rakesh Ravikumar
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Director of Engineering AI Engineering · UKG
Sr. Director of Engineering AI Engineering at UKG since 2025. The highlight describes leading strategic engineering decisions with senior and executive stakeholders and coaching principal architects and senior engineering managers at UKG. Other listed roles include Sr. Director of Engineering Platform Foundations at UKG (2023–2025), Director Of Engineering at UKG (2021–2023), Senior Manager Software Engineering at UKG (2018–2021) and Manager Software Engineering at Ultimate Software (2014–2018).
Reshma Hariharan
LinkedInExperience: VP Engineering SaaS & HR Technology · Zwayam
VP Engineering SaaS & HR Technology at Zwayam since 2017. The highlight describes 14+ years in the HR tech space leading digital transformation across enterprise recruitment and workforce platforms. Other listed roles include Wipro Technologies Workforce management & Talent Management at Wipro (2008–2017) and Project Manager Team Lead at Wipro (2000–2007).
Roshan Joseph
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering · Mewurk HR
Director of Engineering at Mewurk HR since 2025. The highlight describes building AI-powered, cloud native SaaS workforce platforms that automate HR and payroll for SMEs. Other listed roles include Associate Director at Mewurk HR (2021–2025) and Solution Architect at ITC Infotech (2014–2021).
Steve Chui
LinkedInExperience: Engineering Director HCM Core Product & AI · Workday
Engineering Director HCM Core Product & AI at Workday since 2022. The highlight describes leading engineering for AI agents and agentic products on Workday's core HCM platform. Other listed roles include Senior Engineering Manager, Enterprise API Platforms at Workday (2018–2022), Senior Engineering Manager, Internal Tools & Developer Platform at Workday (2014–2018), Senior Software Engineer at Workday (2011–2014) and Advisory Software Engineer at IBM (2008–2011).
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's product area, such as core HCM, payroll, recruiting or workforce scheduling, to the decision you face, and check whether their HR software role is current or past. Ask them for one engineering trade-off they made around HR data, integrations or compliance and how customers responded.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01Which integrations with payroll, benefits or other HR systems caused the most engineering effort, and how did you handle them?
- 02How do you design HR software to handle employee data privacy and country-specific compliance rules?
- 03What drove reliability or operating cost problems as your HR platform grew, and how did you address them?
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