Raphaël Beamonte

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DISC Type : C

Director of Engineering, Head of Cloud Infrastructure at Ramp

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Overview

Raphaël is a technical leader and the Director of Engineering, Head of Cloud Infrastructure at Ramp. With a Ph. D. from Polytechnique Montréal, he specializes in building and scaling infrastructure teams at high-growth companies like Stripe, Temporal, and Shopify, focusing on architecture, mentorship, and leading complex cross-team projects.

He is a frequent speaker and panelist at technology conferences, where he shares his expertise on engineering leadership and infrastructure challenges. His talks often use satire to explore common pitfalls in managing technical teams and projects, drawing from his extensive real-world experience.

Unique fact: Raphaël was voted the Best Lecturer of the Department of Computer and Software Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal for the 2014-2015 academic year.

Personality Overview

Negotiator

Critic

ROI Driven

They like to do things independently and don’t look for support from others.  They choose to analyze logically and value facts to emotions. They are quite likely to negotiate on pricing or other key terms.

Topics They Care About

Cloud Infrastructure
As Head of Cloud Infrastructure at Ramp and former lead at Temporal, he has written about multi-cloud strategies and solving infrastructure challenges at scale.
Engineering Leadership
Focuses on mentoring and growing people. He gives talks on leadership anti-patterns, such as "Being An Awful Leader In A Few Easy Steps. "
Cellular Architecture
Recently gave a talk at Cloudflare Connect on how Ramp is leveraging Cloudflare to route traffic for its new cellular architecture, a key strategic initiative.

Media Appearances

Raphaël has no verified media appearances

Work History

2-2025
Director of Engineering, Head of Cloud Infrastructure at Ramp
1-2024 - 2-2025
Technical Lead, Infrastructure & Security at Temporal Technologies
2-2023 - 1-2024
Technical Lead, Infrastructure at Temporal Technologies
4-2022 - 11-2022
Staff/Lead Engineer, Compute & Network Infrastructure at Stripe
4-2019 - 4-2022
Staff Production Engineer & Technical lead at Shopify

Education

2013 - 2016
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from Polytechnique Montréal
2012 - 2013
Master of Applied Sciences (M.A.Sc.) from Polytechnique Montréal

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Insights For Selling To Raphaël

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Use phrases like ‘expect X% improvement’, ‘data clearly shows’ etc.
  • Be ready to answer many clarity-seeking questions and requests for information
  • Tell them what ROI they can expect

DONT's

  • Avoid phrases like ‘trust me’, ‘others just love’ etc.
  • Don't give superficial answers, they are easily rattled by them
  • Don’t rush them till they have clearly gotten all the necessary information

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Raphaël is

  • Proven ROI, pricing and objective proof points are the factors that sway their decision.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Raphaël

  • They are comfortable saying no if they are convinced that it is the correct decision.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Raphaël move?

  • They are neither the fastest nor the slowest decision makers, they are somewhere in the middle.
  • Can Raphaël take some risk or not?

  • They can bear some risk if their analysis backs the decision.

You And Raphaël

Personality Compatibility


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