My summer at Ramp

Summary

My summer at Ramp recounts a three-month internship at the financial automation startup, following an introduction to its mission, growth, and product. During the placement, the author standardized physical-card shipping data, improved accounting workflows, handled profile-picture and UX work, and resolved production issues while improving endpoint and application performance. The main project, Filtering and Renaming GL, let Ramp administrators control accounting-option visibility by cardholder department and rename cryptic options within Ramp. The internship also provided observations about fintech opportunity, Ramp's rapid growth, transparency, ownership-driven culture, and the speed-quality trade-off described as product velocity. The author planned to continue at Ramp part-time while entering the third year of college.

Context

The internship was motivated by two goals: becoming a better full-stack engineer and understanding how a high-growth startup operates and scales.

Approach / What changed

The author contributed across Ramp's product and production systems, including shipping-data standardization, accounting improvements, UX work, customer escalations, bug fixes, performance improvements, and the Filtering and Renaming GL project.

Takeaways

• Filtering and Renaming GL allowed Ramp admins to control accounting-option visibility by cardholder department, individually or in bulk.
• Admins could rename long, cryptic accounting-provider options within Ramp, helping finance teams reduce clutter and close their books faster.
• The author describes product velocity as the team's shared balance between shipping quickly and maintaining appropriate quality as Ramp scaled.

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