Eli Block leads the Security Engineering team at Ramp. His team's mission is to ensure Ramp earns the trust of its customers. Ramp handles sensitive financial data and promises to be a reliable source of truth: Eli's team is responsible for making that promise a reality, not just through compliance checkboxes like SOC 2 or PCI DSS, but by building systems that are fundamentally secure, reliable, and worthy of trust.
As Ramp has scaled rapidly (nearly doubling its valuation in 2025), Eli’s team has deepened their focus on building secure infrastructure that enables the entire company to ship both faster and more securely.
Critical use cases for Evervault
Ramp leverages Evervault across multiple mission-critical use cases such as:
- Card vaulting for embedded finance: For select customers who need programmatic access to card data via Ramp’s API (read the docs), Ramp uses Evervault to proxy and encrypt PANs and CVVs, enabling secure interaction without handling raw card data directly.
- Vendor EIN collection: Ramp collects Employer Identification Numbers (EINs) from vendors to generate tax documents. Since some EINs can be Social Security Numbers (SSNs), Ramp uses Evervault to keep this data encrypted and completely outside their infrastructure.
Why Ramp adopted Evervault
Ramp's decision to adopt Evervault was driven by more than just performance and price considerations. Developer experience emerged as the critical factor, as Eli's team values autonomy and velocity.
We chose to add Evervault to our stack because it offers a smooth developer experience, allowing our engineers to ship products to users and debug on their own (without wasting time on support calls). This is crucial for us: Ramp hires strong, self-sufficient engineers, and we want to give them the tools to succeed without roadblocks.— Eli Block, Principal Engineer (Foundations and Security Engineering)
Since going live with Evervault, Ramp has been impressed with the low levels of observed customer latency they’ve seen, thanks to our unique dual-custody encryption model for securing sensitive data. Learn more about Evervault's encryption architecture.
Three key benefits of working with Evervault
Reflecting on his work with Evervault, three things stood out to Eli:
- Reliability and infrastructure focus: Evervault delivers consistent uptime (99.99..%) and acts as a stable critical infrastructure provider without unnecessary complexity — prioritizing dependable service over flashy features.
- Developer experience and flexibility: The platform offers excellent developer tools, including useful request logs and API-based configuration that allows easy setup and environment management, making technical implementation seamless.
- Strong Team and Leadership - The team is incredibly knowledgeable about the space and doesn’t oversell, instead letting the product speak for itself.
Advice for teams considering Evervault
For product and engineering leaders evaluating Evervault, Eli's advice is simple:
Evervault understands modern development: it was easy for our team to adopt their tools to help make our environment more secure, quickly.