Founder Profile
Karim Atiyeh
Last reviewed: September 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Background
Karim Atiyeh held a profoundly rigorous, highly technical background in advanced computer science, complex algorithmic engineering, and massive-scale financial systems architecture. Having successfully graduated from the incredibly elite Harvard University and built massively scalable machine learning infrastructure at Paribus, this intensely technical foundation provided the exact engineering leverage required to successfully co-found the massive Ramp enterprise.
Founding Story
Karim Atiyeh is an absolutely brilliant software engineer, fiercely skilled digital architect, and the profoundly influential CTO and co-founder fundamentally responsible for programming the incredibly complex infrastructural bedrock of the massive Ramp financial platform. Operating as a highly talented technical executive alongside Glyman, Atiyeh aggressively spearheaded the incredibly complex backend engineering required to seamlessly integrate highly robust spend management software directly into physical and virtual credit cards. By relentlessly building massively scalable, incredibly secure data pipelines that instantly analyzed millions of corporate transactions in real-time, his absolutely rigorous technical execution completely guaranteed the platform's flawless operational survival. His massive engineering legacy permanently secured his status as a core titan of the global fintech ecosystem.