Engineering · Founding Engineer

Adhyyan Sekhsaria

“Human Engineer at Cognition”

Joined
Nov 2023
How they joined
Directly
Before Cognition
quadric.ioSoftware Engineer
Olympiads
IOI silver 2019IOI 2019Silver

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Details
LocationSan Francisco, California, United States
LanguagesEnglish, Hindi
UniversityUniversity of Southern California
InformaticsRoboticsC++JavaProblem SolvingCompetitive Programming
Notes
  • Adhyyan Sekhsaria is identified as a Founding Engineer at Cognition.
  • Adhyyan Sekhsaria said (verbatim, translated from Chinese): million-level context lets them feed in a complete diff at once, achieving higher-quality code review with a simpler architecture.Mar 14, 2026
  • Adhyyan Sekhsaria was an undergraduate computer science student at USC Viterbi and part of a three-person team with master's student Jeel Tejaskumar Vaishnav and undergraduate Kangmin Tan ('22).Aug 1, 2022
  • Adhyyan Sekhsaria's team placed among the top 20 schools in the ICPC North American Championship and in the top three teams in the Western region, advancing to the final level of the competition.Aug 1, 2022
  • ICPC 2020 World Finals Moscow: rank 81, team University of Southern California (USC Trojans), score 3/15.Oct 5, 2021
  • IOI 2019: rank 78, silver medal, score 332.93/600.Aug 11, 2019
  • Adhyyan Sekhsaria competed for India at the 2019 International Olympiad in Informatics, scoring 332.93 (55.49%), ranking 78/327 absolute (76.45% relative), and winning a Silver medal.2019
  • Sekhsaria quote: "If you're an engineer, the number one thing to think about is being obsessed with customers and making sure they're having a good experience using your product"
  • Sekhsaria quote on the key metric: "The main metric we care about is the percent of users who go from the landing page to merging a PR through Devin" and "That metric doubled."
  • Adhyyan Sekhsaria's team solved 6 problems, landing 12th place overall amongst 50 teams at the ICPC North American Championship.Aug 1, 2022
  • ICPC 2020 World Finals teammates: Kangmin Tan and Tianyi Chen.Oct 5, 2021
  • Olympiad: Silver medal in IOI 2019 at Azerbaijan amongst 500,000 students across the world.2019

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