- Joined Cognition
- Jul 2025
- How they joined
- With Windsurf
- Before Windsurf
- Chan Zuckerberg InitiativeSoftware Engineer Intern
- Now
- Canary (YC W26)
“I quit my job at Windsurf to build the fix. I was building AI coding tools at Windsurf for Fortune 10 companies. Great team, great product. But I kept watching the same problem play out: teams shipping faster and breaking more things.”
- Described his Windsurf/Cognition work verbatim: "I was building AI coding tools at Windsurf for Fortune 10 companies. Great team, great product. But I kept watching the same problem play out: teams shipping faster and breaking more things. No one was solving it." The Canary thesis is a direct reaction to what he saw inside the AI-IDE boom.Mar 9, 2026
- At Windsurf he worked on the enterprise product (the Applied AI tooling that wraps foundation models for Fortune-scale deployment) and watched the self-serve enterprise plan climb toward roughly $20M ARR in about six months, per a 2026 profile.Aug 3, 2026
- Thanked YC partners Jon Xu and Boris Jabes for guidance, and Afore Capital, Jack McClelland and Anamitra Banerji for support "from Day 0".Mar 9, 2026
- Windsurf (formerly Codeium) was acquired by Cognition in July 2025 after Google hired its CEO; Cognition said the Windsurf team would continue operating as before, which is how his Jan 2025-Mar 2026 Windsurf tenure became Cognition employment ('x-Cognition').Jul 2025
- YC founder page lists him as CEO of Canary, W26, team size 2, San Francisco, primary partner Jon Xu.
- Cofounder Viswesh N G is Canary's CTO and, per a market map, is ex-Google, ex-Windsurf and ex-Cognition, so the pair carried over directly from the Windsurf/Cognition team.
- Spoke at a Drata event about adversaries and an "agentic second author" for verification of coding agents, and opened Canary's new early beta.Sep 18, 2026Had an amazing time talking about the need of adversaries and an agentic second author and how they help coding agents and devs alike in the verification space at @DrataHQ Check the new Canary out on early beta at https://t.co/GzK8lDoQXW P.S: shoutout to @denverpeterson @atShruti for hosting this great session.
- On the Fondo pod he described Canary reading source code, mapping changes to user flows, spinning up remote browsers and dropping video recordings into the PR, cutting QA from days to about 15 minutes.Apr 1, 2026
- Shared Canary's QA Bench v0, a benchmark for how well AI handles QA, on LinkedIn.Mar 12, 2026Excited to share this one. QA Bench v0.
- First author of 'SKETCH: Structured Knowledge Enhanced Text Comprehension for Holistic Retrieval' (arXiv 2412.15443) with Vinesh Kumar Gande, Aman Chadha, Vinija Jain and Divya Chaudhary of Northeastern.Dec 2024
- Before Windsurf he built 'Aladdin', billed as the world's first real-time sales copilot with live transcripts as dialogue cards, launched on X in March 2024, an earlier attempt at founding a company.Mar 21, 2024Today, we're thrilled to announce the launch of Aladdin: World's first real-time sales copilot. ▶ Aladdin AI enhances sales meetings by providing live transcripts as interactive dialogue cards. ▶ On a single click of these dialogue cards, Sales reps can effortlessly retrieve answers to questions raised by prospects. ▶ Once the meeting ends, the transcripts are stored back into your knowledge bas
- Described as an ICPC APAC finalist; his LinkedIn lists ACM ICPC Kolkata-Kanpur Regionals (Dec 2018) during his SASTRA BTech.Dec 2018
Excited to share this one. QA Bench v0.
How Canary looks at my code https://t.co/LhguoL6xo2
You either die or live long enough to build an autonomous AI software engineer.
Data isn't a moat if you are getting hacked 👋
Had an amazing time talking about the need of adversaries and an agentic second author and how they help coding agents and devs alike in the verification space at @DrataHQ Check the new Canary out on early beta at https://t.co/GzK8lDoQXW P.S: shoutout to @denverpeterson @atShruti for hosting this great session.
Not sure how they'd start to look if they distill off each other but having them in a mix under an harness could help. try it first here for all agents, software, RL environments @RunCanary
Alignment in Models and Misalignment in Incentives. recursive intelligence was always on the horizon and previous models showed smaller scale versions of reward hacking, test manipulation and most importantly deceptive behavior at times. the OAI-HF incident was a larger scale misalignment but it was inevitable given the trajectory of how alignment has not kept up, but also more importantly even i
Misaligned incidents were always inevitable and newer attack vectors will soon be the norm regardless as the capabilities advance. With IPOs near, is this an attempt to ensure a permanent “safety” moat and grab back all lost inference to open weights?
Mom I made it. On a serious note, always great catching up with @davj Thanks to @posthog and @Fondocom
Today, we're thrilled to announce the launch of Aladdin: World's first real-time sales copilot. ▶ Aladdin AI enhances sales meetings by providing live transcripts as interactive dialogue cards. ▶ On a single click of these dialogue cards, Sales reps can effortlessly retrieve answers to questions raised by prospects. ▶ Once the meeting ends, the transcripts are stored back into your knowledge bas
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How Canary looks at my code https://t.co/LhguoL6xo2
