Innovative Thinking

Welcome Applatix to the Intuit Team

Scott Cook, Intuit founder, brainstorming on day 1 with Applatix team Hot off the heels of being named one of Fortune Magazine’s Future 50, Intuit is continuing to reinvent itself by investing in cutting-edge technology and building an organization that takes pride in our mission of powering prosperity around the world. That’s why I’m

Written by Marianna Tessel
Published Jan 29, 2018 - [Updated Nov 14, 2022]
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Scott Cook, Intuit founder, brainstorming on day 1 with Applatix team

Hot off the heels of being named one of Fortune Magazine’s Future 50, Intuit is continuing to reinvent itself by investing in cutting-edge technology and building an organization that takes pride in our mission of powering prosperity around the world.

That’s why I’m thrilled that we acquired Applatix, a team at the forefront of building scalable production systems with containers and Kubernetes in both public and private clouds. Applatix has been an active contributor to open source and is the team behind Argo, a container-native workflow engine for Kubernetes that’s gaining traction in the community. We will continue to support the Argo project, which was recently featured in TGI Kubernetes. By acquiring Applatix, we are able to further improve our development process by adopting devops tools and practices leaning on capabilities provided by technologies like Kubernetes and containers. Their addition to the Intuit team will bring new capabilities to our services-based platform and fully automate our CI/CD/CO (continuous operations) pipelines, allowing us to improve our customer and developer experiences.

Applatix has been a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) member and I’m thrilled to announce that Intuit will continue the CNCF membership, affirming our commitment to the open source community and CNCF as we work closely together and contribute to leading-edge cloud native technologies to advance Intuit’s mission: power prosperity around the world.

I’m proud to welcome the Applatix team to Intuit as part of our badass engineering organization!

Marianna Tessel is executive vice president and CTO for Intuit. She leads the company’s global technology platform strategy, and product engineering, data science, IT and security teams. Before assuming the CTO role in 2019, she served as chief product development officer of Intuit’s Small Business & Self-Employed Group.

Prior to Intuit, Tessel was senior vice president of engineering and executive vice president of Strategic Development for Docker Inc., a software containerization platform, and vice president of engineering for VMware, a cloud computing and virtualization software and services company. In March 2021, Marianna was appointed to Cisco’s Board of Directors.

Tessel holds a Bachelor of Science in Computing from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. At the beginning of her career, she served as Captain for Computer Center R&D in the Israeli Army.