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.

Takeaways

1. 1

   Filtering and Renaming GL allowed Ramp admins to control accounting-option visibility by cardholder department, individually or in bulk.

2. 2

   Admins could rename long, cryptic accounting-provider options within Ramp, helping finance teams reduce clutter and close their books faster.

3. 3

   The author describes product velocity as the team's shared balance between shipping quickly and maintaining appropriate quality as Ramp scaled.