Rahul Patil

Career

Patil has more than 20 years of experience building infrastructure for large technology platforms. Patil held senior engineering leadership roles at Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, working on reliable, scalable systems, and then served as CTO of Stripe, leading its technical organization.¹²

Anthropic

Anthropic announced on October 7, 2025 that Patil had joined as Chief Technology Officer, overseeing engineering across product, compute, infrastructure, inference, data science and security; in the same change, co-founder and former CTO Sam McCandlish became Chief Architect. In January 2026 Anthropic said Ami Vora would lead its Product organization in close partnership with Patil to scale Claude products.¹³

Work and contributions

• Anthropic engineering organization

  Anthropic's October 2025 announcement says Patil oversees the engineering organization across product, compute, infrastructure, inference, data science, and security as Anthropic scales Claude for enterprise demand.¹

Timeline

1. Oct 7, 2025Joined Anthropic as Chief Technology Officer, succeeding Sam McCandlish in the role.¹
2. Jan 13, 2026Anthropic announced that Patil would partner with Ami Vora, who leads the Product organization, to scale Claude products.³

Other documented roles

Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.

• Chief Technology Officer, Stripe¹²
• Senior engineering leadership roles, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure¹²
• Senior engineering leadership roles, Amazon Web Services¹²
• Senior engineering leadership roles, Microsoft¹²

Where they work

• Anthropic 34 people in the wiki

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