#911 The Cost Crisis Facing CTOs and How to Solve It with Albert Strasheim, CTO at Rippling

THIS is how you keep your infrastructure costs from spiraling out of control.

Today, we're talking to Albert Strasheim, CTO at Rippling. We discuss the cost crisis facing CTOs in the age of AI, how he reduced infrastructure costs by 30% while growing traffic by 25%, and why holding back feedback is actually the most selfish thing a leader can do.

All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! 

To learn more about Rippling, check out their website here.

About Albert Strasheim

Albert Strasheim is the CTO at Rippling, where he leads an engineering team of an all-in-one HR, IT, and finance platform. Albert was an early engineer at Cloudflare, joining when the company was just 50 people. Originally from Cape Town, South Africa, he moved to San Francisco in 2013 and has since become known for his disciplined approach to cost management and building scalable infrastructure.

About Rippling

Rippling is a workforce management system that eliminates the friction from running a business. Today, most companies struggle with everything from routine tasks, like running payroll, to cross-functional planning, like aligning on headcount. That’s because all their data related to people, processes, and systems is scattered in a hundred places.

Rippling has every application you need to run your business—from applicant tracking and payroll to IT and expenses—in one place. But unlike other systems, Rippling sits on top of a unified platform. Data flows dynamically between Rippling’s applications, giving every team a shared source of truth, the power to automate processes, and access to the insights they need. This allows your business to execute better, faster.