Kushal Cuttari

Founding MTS @ Arca, ex-Rippling

New York, New York, United States

About

https://www.kushal.ai/

Experience

  • Founding Member of the Technical Staff at Arca
    Aug 2025 - Present · 1 yr

    Building a fully integrated, AI-native platform to transform one of the largest fintech sectors. We're assembling a lean, world-class team of experienced (senior+) applied AI and product engineers. If that sounds like you, let's chat! Employee #3

  • Rippling (3 yrs 4 mos)
    • Senior Software Engineer
      May 2024 - Aug 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos

      - Owned all reporting infrastructure for Payroll & Global Payroll, solving large-scale data and compliance challenges - Owned Contractor Entities (contractor entity support in 100+ countries), built out Global Contractors - Owned key cross-team integrations (Accounting, Reports, Object Graph, RQL) to improve data models, reporting pipelines and new feature development - Helped build basic EOR capabilities including reporting, onboarding, and underlying schema flexibility.

    • Software Engineer - Global Payroll
      May 2022 - Apr 2024 · 2 yrs

      - Took a product 0 to 1, now the largest product at Rippling - Built out a large part of core functionalities early on, significant portions of the Frontend, Pay Schedules, Reports, Settings & Config, etc. - Own large sub products and integrations, i.e Global Contractors, Reports, Risk Checks, etc.

  • Software Engineer II at Intuit
    Oct 2020 - May 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos

    Full stack engineer on the FFFF team and UIPLATFORM team. Free File Fillable Forms: - Automated CCPA process - Added ability for user to file for Child Tax Credit as well as the Stimulus - Transitioned Static Content to Cloudfront for better performance when serving content UIPLATFORM: - Detected users stuck in a loop and created an intervention experience

  • Cequence Security (2 yrs 3 mos)
    • Software Engineer
      Jan 2019 - Aug 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos

      My Responsibilities are centered around building & designing internal tools, implementing new product lines/features and improving the general usability of our product line. Some products I've worked on include: LoadTester: Built an attack tool based around the Apache JMeter service, it allowed for the simulation of Denial of Service attacks along with WAF attacks while automatically scaling AWS instances based on the size of the test being run. Mitigator: Worked on smoothing out UX patterns, overhauled the entire applications UI, and designed and built out the majority of the Web Application Firewall flow. API Sentinel: Designed a completely new product line aimed at giving customers visibility into their current API traffic as well identifying any risk factors with their current implementation

    • Software Engineering Intern
      Jun 2018 - Dec 2018 · 7 mos

  • President at IDEAS @ SJSU
    May 2017 - Dec 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos

    During my time as president of IDEAS @ SJSU, I grew club membership from 20 active members to over 200, acquired over 50,000$ in funding and helped kickoff a startup incubator for student led startups at San José State University.