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Ramp Builders
Company blog · engineering.ramp.comprogrammingbusiness
Ramp Builders is the company blog at engineering.ramp.com, writing about programming and business. Since 2021, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “Elixir at Ramp”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-22, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Ramp's engineering blog for write-ups on production LLM and agent infrastructure, including MCP integration, transaction data embeddings, and model routing. Commenters mostly cite it as a source.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Discover the latest in finance automation that increases the lifespan of businesses from the Ramp team
Most-linked posts?
- Elixir at Ramp2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-18
What Hacker News says?
https://engineering.ramp.com/ramp-mcp https://blog.cloudflare.com/remote-model-context-protocol-se...
Comment linking /ramp-mcp
on “OpenAI adds MCP support to Agents SDK”Submitted Elixir at Ramp as a story · 126 points
HN discussionIt’s not just about passing prompts — in production systems like Ramp’s, they had to build a custom ETL pipeline to process data from their endpoints, and host a separate database to serve structured transaction data into the LLM context window effectively. We’ve seen similar pre-processing strategies in many efficient LLM-integrated APIs — whether it’s GraphQL shaping data precisely, SQL transformations for LLM com…
Comment linking /ramp-mcp
on “OpenAI adds MCP support to Agents SDK”Submitted Ramp Accelerated Machine Learning Development to Simplify Finance as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWe solved this at Ramp on the expenses/AP side with an agentic RAG implementation and a custom embedding model, backed by D&B/Google/user-submitted corrections. If curious, details here: https://engineering.ramp.com/post/transaction-embeddings https://engineering.ramp.com/post/fixing-merchant-classifica...
Comment linking /post/fixing-merchant-classifications-with-ai
on “AccountingBench: Evaluating LLMs on real long-horizon business tasks”Submitted Engineering Principles – Ramp Engineering Blog as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis is great. Would be good if you add RAMP also, have found the engineering blog useful. https://engineering.ramp.com/
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on “Show HN: Engineering.fyi – Search across tech engineering blogs in one place”Submitted Faster Python Tests as a story · 2 points
HN discussionModal | Software Engineers (Product, System, SDK) | SF, NYC (ONSITE) | Full Time | modal.com Modal builds the serverless cloud used by many of the most popular AI companies you've heard of. People use Modal for inference, training, batch operations and also, sandboxes. A good example is the Ramp Inspect tool, that was built on Modal sandboxes. https://engineering.ramp.com/post/why-we-built-our-backgroun... I am one…
Comment linking /post/why-we-built-our-background-agent
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)”Submitted Bootstrapping a UI Component Library as a story · 2 points
HN discussionModal | Software Engineers (Product, System, SDK) | SF, NYC (ONSITE) | Full Time | modal.com Modal builds the serverless cloud used by many of the most popular AI companies you've heard of. People use Modal for inference, training, batch operations and also, sandboxes. A good example is the Ramp Inspect tool, that was built on Modal sandboxes. https://engineering.ramp.com/post/why-we-built-our-backgroun... — We also…
Comment linking /post/why-we-built-our-background-agent
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)”Submitted Improving Retrieval on Ramp with Transaction Embeddings as a story · 1 points
HN discussioncheck out some of our work in this area https://engineering.ramp.com/post/thompson-sampling-model-ro... https://x.com/RampLabs/status/2087163448513765449
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on “Ramp Launches a Model Router”Submitted Abstraction Engineering at Ramp as a story · 1 points
HN discussionModal | Software Engineers (Product, System, SDK) | SF, NYC (ONSITE) | Full Time | modal.com Modal builds the serverless cloud used by many of the most popular AI companies you've heard of. People use Modal for inference, training, batch operations and also, sandboxes. A good example is the Ramp Inspect tool, that was built on Modal sandboxes. https://engineering.ramp.com/post/why-we-built-our-backgroun... — We also…
Comment linking /post/why-we-built-our-background-agent
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)”Submitted Increasing velocity by modernizing a Python codebase as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHi! Have we met? Elixir has been great for our Authorization server. I really believe in the BEAM for high-uptime cases, and love a lot about Ecto's design as an ORM. That said, I only felt comfortable bringing Elixir to Ramp because I'd already built ~3 Pheonix projects before joining, and had a decade on other Erlang projects. I make a light reference to it in a few places in the article, but I think introducing W…
Comment linking /elixir-at-ramp
on “Where have all the hackers gone?”Submitted Learnings from Building and Scaling Ramp's Growth Engine as a story · 1 points
HN discussionModal | Software Engineers (Product, System, SDK) | SF, NYC (ONSITE) | Full Time | modal.com Modal builds the serverless cloud used by many of the most popular AI companies you've heard of. People use Modal for inference, training, batch operations and also, sandboxes. A good example is the Ramp Inspect tool, that was built on Modal sandboxes. https://engineering.ramp.com/post/why-we-built-our-backgroun... I am one…
Comment linking /post/why-we-built-our-background-agent
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)”Submitted Elixir at Ramp as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Finding the right balance of speed and security through just-in-time access as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Matters, Suffers (narratives on code quality) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bootstrapping a UI Component Library as a story · 1 points
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