# Steven Cipolla

> Engineering at Rippling

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/stevencipolla

I'm looking for talented Senior, Staff & Principal engineers to join me in building the world's first unified HR/IT/Payroll/Insurance platform, all powered by Rippling Unity.

If this sounds interesting or we've worked together in the past, feel free to reach out!

## Work Experience
### Principal Engineer - Platform @ Rippling
Jan 2020 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
Building the platform to power the future of work applications. Everything gains superpowers when it's built on top of rich employee data.

### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Box
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Domain architect responsible for Box's in-house async job platform, event-driven architecture (Kafka, etc.) and microservices orchestration (Temporal).

### Staff Software Engineer @ Box
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020

### Engineering Manager - Compute & Messaging @ Box
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018

### TLM - Compute @ Box
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015
My team designed, built and continues to scale and support Box's asynchronous job execution platform, processing upwards of 400 million jobs per day for a broad variety of use-cases such as search indexing, text extraction, document conversion and Box's Policies & Automation workflow features.

### Senior Engineer - Enterprise Web @ Box
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
As a senior engineer on Box's enterprise web application team, I worked closely with product management to deliver features for Box's largest customers, solving complicated scalability issues.  I was the engineering lead for Box's Device Pinning feature (http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/25/eyeing-an-ipo-box-doubles-down-on-device-content-and-login-security-for-cloud-storage-platform/) leading the architecture and driving implementation across our mobile, platform and enterprise teams.

### Software Architect @ Hi5
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012

### Senior Quality Engineer @ Hi5
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011

### Test Development Engineer @ Microsemi Corporation
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010

### Yield Enhancement Engineer @ Microsemi Corporation
Jan 2007 – Jan 2008


## Education
### Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) in Computer Engineering
University of Toronto


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/steven-cipolla-9aa02216

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Last updated: 2026-04-12