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 General Manager of Intuit’s Small Business and Self-Employed Group. She leads Intuit’s largest and fastest-growing business unit that delivers QuickBooks and Mailchimp to 10 million customers around the world who rely on Intuit daily to be the source of truth for their businesses, solve their biggest challenges, and help them to grow and run their business with confidence.

Marianna joined Intuit in 2017 and was previously Chief Technology Officer during which she led Intuit’s strategy to be the global AI-driven expert platform. As CTO, she reshaped the company into a world-class SaaS platform, advancing customer and product experiences while significantly accelerating the velocity of innovation. Prior to becoming CTO, she served as Chief Product Officer for Intuit’s Small Business and Self-Employed Group. Before joining Intuit, she served as Executive Vice President of Strategic Development at Docker, where she led strategic partnerships and expanded its product portfolio and open-source platform. She also held executive-level positions at VMware and engineering leadership roles at Ariba and General Magic. Marianna currently serves on Cisco’s Board of Directors.

At the beginning of her career, Marianna served as Captain for Computer Center R&D in the Israeli Army. She earned a B.S. in computer science from Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, and has completed coursework toward an M.S. in computer science and brain research from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.