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Rahul Patil

Rahul Patil is chief technology officer at Anthropic, where he leads the engineering organization that scales Claude. He joined Anthropic in 2025, succeeding Sam McCandlish, who became chief architect. Before Anthropic, he was chief technology officer at Stripe, a post he took in August 2024, replacing David Singleton. Earlier, he was a manager on Amazon Kinesis Firehose at AWS in 2014, and from 2015 to 2020 he was senior vice president for cloud infrastructure at Oracle.

Timeline

  1. 2014

    Amazon Kinesis Firehose at AWS

    He works as a manager on Amazon Kinesis Firehose at Amazon Web Services in 2014.

  2. 2015–2020

    Senior vice president at Oracle

    He joins Oracle in 2015 as senior vice president for cloud infrastructure, leaving in 2020.

  3. 2020–2023

    Head of infrastructure at Stripe

    He joins Stripe as head of infrastructure in 2020.

  4. August 2024

    Stripe's chief technology officer

    Stripe names him chief technology officer in August 2024, replacing David Singleton.

  5. Since 2025

    Anthropic's chief technology officer

    He joins Anthropic as chief technology officer in 2025, succeeding Sam McCandlish, who becomes chief architect. He leads the engineering organization across product, compute, infrastructure, inference, data science, and security as Anthropic scales Claude.

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  1. Rahul Patil's email - Board Member | Gusto | FinalScout finalscout.com. Checked 14 October 2026.
  2. Anthropic hires new CTO with focus on AI infrastructure | TechCrunch techcrunch.com. Checked 14 October 2026.
  3. Stripe Promotes Rahul Patil to Chief Technology Officer, David Singleton Departs financemagnates.com. Checked 14 October 2026.
  4. Rahul Patil joins as Chief Technology Officer | Anthropic anthropic.com. Checked 14 October 2026.
  5. Leadership at Anthropic | Anthropic anthropic.com. Checked 14 October 2026.