Patrick Joubert 🧢

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States29 yrs 5 mos experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Founder of multiple successful deeptech companies
Expert in AI decision-making frameworks
Proven track record with three successful exits

Stackforce AI infers this person is a deeptech entrepreneur specializing in AI and cloud computing solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial IntelligenceEntrepreneurshipCreative Problem Solving

Other Skills

LeadershipAgentic AIElectric VehiclesPolicy AnalysisData AnalysisAutomotiveCloud ComputingIT ManagementTeam ManagementEnterprise ArchitectureChange ManagementVirtualizationIT TransformationInfrastructureProject Portfolio Management

About

At Rippletide, we build the decision runtime for AI agents.We sit at the execution boundary, between your agent and production and decide whether it's allowed to act. Not monitoring. Not advisory. Enforceable.- Agent Eval : CLI & SDK to evaluate real-world agent behavior before deployment.- Context Graph MCP Server : Structured context layer for grounded, predictable execution.- Decision Runtime Platform : Validates decisions, enforces rules, blocks unsafe execution. Full causal trace on every action.Eval → Context → Enforceable Runtime.Model-agnostic. No prompt refactoring. Deploys in weeks. Works with OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock, LangChain, and custom stacks.LLMs generate. Rippletide decides.This is my fourth deeptech company. Three prior exits:Recast.AI → SAP (conversational AI)Ponicode → CircleCI (AI for developer productivity)Beamap → Steria (cloud strategy)Same playbook every time: deep tech, real production impact, forward deployment.Always open to connect with founders, engineers, and operators building the next generation of autonomous AI.

Experience

Rippletide

Founder & CEO

Feb 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco (USA) & Paris (France)

Rippletide is the decision runtime for AI agents.
We sit at the execution boundary, between your agent and production and decide whether it's allowed to act. Not monitoring. Not advisory. Enforceable.
What we build:
Agent Eval : CLI & SDK to evaluate real-world agent behavior before deployment.
Context Graph MCP Server : Structured context layer for grounded, predictable agent execution.
Decision Runtime Platform : Validates decisions, enforces rules, blocks unsafe execution. Full causal trace on every action.
Eval → Context → Enforceable Runtime.
Model-agnostic. No prompt refactoring. Deploys in weeks, not quarters. OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock, LangChain, custom stacks.
Trusted by production teams shipping autonomous agents today.
We don't improve the model. We control execution.

EntrepreneurshipLeadershipArtificial IntelligenceAgentic AICreative Problem Solving

Circleci

2 roles

Head of R&D Lab

Promoted

Oct 2022 – Mar 2023 · 5 mos

The Research & Development Lab is the innovation outpost of CircleCI where we craft unique solutions to the most pressing issues of the CICD ecosystem.
As Head of the R&D Lab I coordinate all the different fields of discovery we incubate and make sure that each team progresses through problem-solution fit towards the production of full-fledged solutions that can complement the CircleCI offer.

Head of developer experience

Mar 2022 – Oct 2022 · 7 mos

Ponicode

Co-Founder & CEO

May 2019 – Oct 2022 · 3 yrs 5 mos · La Rochelle, Paris & San Francisco

(Acquired by CircleCI) Why don't you unit test? Ponicode is a low code unit-testing (generative Ai) solution. Create, modify and visualise your unit tests in just a few clicks on our straightforward AI-powered interface.
Ponicode is on a mission to help developers unleash their code.
We help developers focus on what they like doing the most, on the exciting parts of their job. We are creating a unique AI low code solution that will handle all low-interest but essential tasks and allow developers to focus on what lies ahead.

Creative Problem Solving

Sap

SAP Conversational AI

Jan 2018 – Dec 2018 · 11 mos · Paris (France) & Palo Alto (USA)

SAP acquired Recast.AI in Jan. 2018, Happy to join the SAP Family! :)

Recastai

Co-Founder & CEO

Sep 2015 – Dec 2018 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Paris (France) & San Francisco (USA)

(Acquired by SAP) Founded in September 2015, Recast.AI is the leading artificial intelligence bot platform. With more than 30,000 developers building more than 60,000 bots, Recast.AI offers a world class technology, an end-to-end bot platform as well as off-the-shelf customer support bots to lead the revolution of customer relations around the world.
Recast.AI was acquired by SAP in January 2018. This acquisition is the result of aligned technological and business visions, and will allow us to lead the integration of conversational technologies worldwide.
The acquisition will accelerate SAP Leonardo Machine Learning roadmap, which is already enabling teams across SAP, and soon also partners and customers, to bring comprehensive chatbots and other conversational applications to production.

Creative Problem Solving

Soprasteria group

Group Cloud Computing Director

Mar 2014 – Mar 2016 · 2 yrs · London, United Kingdom

Leading Cloud Computing Strategy for Soprasteria Group Globally.
Do you want to succeed your Digital Transformation? Leverage Cloud!
Beamap, the company I founded, joined the Soprasteria Group for Digital & Cloud enablement.

Creative Problem Solving

Beamap

Founder & CEO

Oct 2011 – Mar 2016 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Paris (France) & London (UK)

(Acquired by Steria) Beamap is a Consulting Company for succeeding Cloud Computing Transformation.
Private Cloud or Public Cloud Beamap is an Architect for your Cloud Projects. Our topics ?
Private Cloud opportunity study, RFP, Architecture, Program Management.
Public Cloud linked with Architecture, RFP, Program Management.
Hybridation for the link between Private and Public Cloud.
In four years, a 60+ people company.
In march 2014, Beamap joined Steria Group.

Sémélé

Founder & Designer

Oct 2011 – Mar 2016 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Saint Varent

Sémélé is a Design Passion.
Love design? Love simplicity? Look at Sémélé.
A modern and Design Teapot.

Creative Problem Solving

Société générale

3 roles

Architecture & Technology Transformation Stream Director

Feb 2010 – Oct 2011 · 1 yr 8 mos · Paris Area, France

To define the GTS Infrastructure Technical Strategy, to sustain GTS Technical Transformation, to provide Architecture patterns and guidelines, and last but not least, to deliver the right projects' priorities.
Here are my challenges regarding GTS Transformation.
GTS is SG's Infrastructure Shared Services (5600 people globally).

Creative Problem Solving

Global Head of Quality, Methods, Process and GTS Information System

Jul 2009 – Sep 2010 · 1 yr 2 mos · Paris Area, France

Global Technology Services (GTS) is the SG Group shared infrastructures service provider.
➢ Process convergence Program : JUMP!, validated at senior executive level,
o Choice of the deployment strategy, RFP for Vendor (Software) and Integrator selection at Group level,
o Incident, Problem, Change, Request and Asset & Configuration Management key processes, common definition and urbanized IS,
➢ GTS Information System Strategy (how to sustain our processes with our own IS).
➢ GTS Global (5600 people) direct impact globally.