Ramp Opens Cool Machines With the Engineering Behind the Product

A finished product hides the decisions that made it possible. Cool Machines is built to put those decisions back in the room.

Ramp launches the technical meetup series in New York on November 12 with Ryan Delgado, Senior Director of Engineering at Ramp, Nick Hardy, VP of Data at Ro, and John Sarihan, co-founder and CTO at Crosby. The program combines live demonstrations with the tradeoffs, constraints and mistakes that rarely survive the polished product story.

Why this room matters

Complex systems become easier to admire after the architecture has settled. The useful engineering conversation happens earlier, when a team is still deciding what must remain deterministic, where data can move, how reliability will be measured and which compromise will become somebody else's operating burden.

Cool Machines is not asking builders to describe innovation from a distance. It is asking them to open the system and explain how the work holds together. That makes the first gathering a test of whether a technical community can form around the decisions beneath the demo rather than the demo alone.

Event details

• Date: November 12, 2026
• Time: 5:30-8:30 p.m. ET
• Location: New York City; exact address is shared with approved guests
• Host: Ramp Events
• Speakers: Ryan Delgado, Nick Hardy and John Sarihan
• Access: Approval required
• Register: Official event page

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