Ximena Paula Romero

Overview

I started Ripple Logistics to fix B2B payments for teams who were tired of the workarounds. Previously built and sold a small B2B payments company. Signed 53 paying customers, 7 of them enterprises. Before that: Databricks and Bank of America.

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Experience

1. Founder & CEO

   Dec 2024 - Present
   Ripple Logistics · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
   • Previously built and sold a small B2B payments company.
   • Raised $7 million across 2 rounds.
   • Took Ripple Logistics from zero to $4 million ARR.
2. Staff Embedded Engineer

   Jun 2022 - Dec 2024
   Databricks · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
   • Grew the storage team from 3 to 38 engineers.
3. Software Engineer

   Sep 2018 - Jun 2022
   Bank of America · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
   • Cut p99 latency on the growth services from 531ms to 53ms.
   • Shipped 12 launches on the growth team without a rollback.
4. Engineering Manager

   Sep 2016 - Sep 2018
   Uber · 2 yr · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
   • Built the experimentation framework 15 product teams use to ship changes safely.
5. Engineering Manager

   Feb 2014 - Sep 2016
   Intuit · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
   • Moved 89% of firmware traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Mentored 12 engineers through their first promotion.

Projects

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Education

1. Johns Hopkins University

   MS, Computer Science
   2006 - 2008
2. Carnegie Mellon University

   BS, Computer Science
   1999 - 2003