# Adhyyan Sekhsaria

![Adhyyan Sekhsaria](/resources/cognition/portraits/adhyyan-sekhsaria.webp)

Human Engineer at Cognition  
Cognition  
San Francisco, California, United States

## At Cognition

- Role: Founding Engineer (Engineering)
- Joined: Nov 2023
- How they joined: Directly
- Before Cognition: Software Engineer, quadric.io
- Olympiads: IOI silver 2019 (https://www.autumn.ai/resources/olympiads/adhyyan-sekhsaria-olp-270f58a7caea5888a64b)
- Overlapped before Cognition with other Cognition people at: Lunchclub; University of Southern California (https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/worked-together)

## Identity
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adhyyansekhsaria
- X: @Adhyyan
- GitHub: https://github.com/Adhyyan1252

## Notes
- Adhyyan Sekhsaria is identified as a founding engineer at Cognition. (https://view.inews.qq.com/a/20260314A0425Y00)
- Adhyyan Sekhsaria is identified as a Founding Engineer at Cognition. (https://listenlabs.com/case-studies/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. (https://view.inews.qq.com/a/20260314A0425Y00)
- 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). (https://global.usc.edu/usc-trojan-team-headed-to-finals-of-coding-olympics/)
- 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. (https://global.usc.edu/usc-trojan-team-headed-to-finals-of-coding-olympics/)
- ICPC 2020 World Finals Moscow: rank 81, team University of Southern California (USC Trojans), score 3/15. (https://cphof.org/profile/codeforces:AsleepAdhyyan)
- IOI 2019: rank 78, silver medal, score 332.93/600. (https://cphof.org/profile/codeforces:AsleepAdhyyan)
- 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. (https://stats.ioinformatics.org/people/6540)
- 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" (https://listenlabs.com/case-studies/cognition)
- 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." (https://listenlabs.com/case-studies/cognition)
- Adhyyan Sekhsaria's team solved 6 problems, landing 12th place overall amongst 50 teams at the ICPC North American Championship. (https://global.usc.edu/usc-trojan-team-headed-to-finals-of-coding-olympics/)
- ICPC 2020 World Finals teammates: Kangmin Tan and Tianyi Chen. (https://cphof.org/profile/codeforces:AsleepAdhyyan)
- Olympiad: Silver medal in IOI 2019 at Azerbaijan amongst 500,000 students across the world. (https://adhyyan.me/AdhyyanSekhsariaResume.pdf)
- IOI 2018: rank 193 (193-194), score 162/600. (https://cphof.org/profile/codeforces:AsleepAdhyyan)
- Adhyyan Sekhsaria competed for India at the 2018 International Olympiad in Informatics, scoring 162 (27.00%), ranking 193/335 absolute (42.69% relative), with no award. (https://stats.ioinformatics.org/people/6540)
- Public headline says "Human Engineer at Cognition". (https://www.linkedin.com/in/adhyyansekhsaria)
- Sekhsaria quote on onboarding friction: "We understand that even a little bit of friction can cause people to churn very quickly off the product and they wouldn't even get to the part where the value is delivered" (https://listenlabs.com/case-studies/cognition)
- Sekhsaria quote on UI: "We noticed that there were too many buttons on the UI and people were overwhelmed with what to do" (https://listenlabs.com/case-studies/cognition)
- Sekhsaria quote: "Coding is becoming less of a bottleneck" and "The hard part is figuring out what the user issue is, formulating a good solution for it, and then implementing it." (https://listenlabs.com/case-studies/cognition)
- Sekhsaria quote: "The bottleneck after that becomes how fast can you iterate" and "If you really want to maximize user quality and be obsessed with the customer, you have to have a customer in the loop." (https://listenlabs.com/case-studies/cognition)
- Adhyyan Sekhsaria's team qualified for the American championship of ICPC for the third year in a row for USC. (https://global.usc.edu/usc-trojan-team-headed-to-finals-of-coding-olympics/)
- CodeChef SnackDown 2019: rank 35, team Antipr00, score 3/10. (https://cphof.org/profile/codeforces:AsleepAdhyyan)
- Sekhsaria quote on edge-case issues: "These are the kind of issues which are hard to find but very easy to fix" (https://listenlabs.com/case-studies/cognition)
- Sekhsaria quote on onboarding work: "We had a few engineers working on trying to optimize the onboarding flow" (https://listenlabs.com/case-studies/cognition)
- Adhyyan Sekhsaria's profile lists his role as "Founding Engineer" and location as San Francisco. (https://teapawt.org/Adhyyan)
- Olympiad: Rank 2 in ICPC Southern California Regionals; qualified for NA Championships. (https://adhyyan.me/AdhyyanSekhsariaResume.pdf)
- Olympiad: Selected to represent India in IOI 2019 and 2018; 90+ countries participated. (https://adhyyan.me/AdhyyanSekhsariaResume.pdf)
- Adhyyan Sekhsaria and teammates take turns using the only computer allotted to them at the competition. (https://global.usc.edu/usc-trojan-team-headed-to-finals-of-coding-olympics/)
- Education: University of Southern California, Viterbi School of Engineering - Computer Science; Applied Math; Expected Graduation: May 2022; GPA: 4.0. (https://adhyyan.me/AdhyyanSekhsariaResume.pdf)
- Internship: SWE at Entercoms, Barcelona, Remote, Summer 2020; built a genetic algorithm to find the efficient allocation of hubs in a supply chain. (https://adhyyan.me/AdhyyanSekhsariaResume.pdf)
- CodeChef SnackDown 2019 teammate: rajarshi_basu. (https://cphof.org/profile/codeforces:AsleepAdhyyan)
- Rocketry: USC Rocket Propulsion Lab, 2019-Present; first student organization to reach space; part of Avionics Team; lead in charge of Code Optimization. (https://adhyyan.me/AdhyyanSekhsariaResume.pdf)
- Internship: HERE Technologies, Highly Automated Driving, Summer 2019; aided in development of tools used to make lane marking and 3D landmarks; used Spring Framework, Docker, AWS. (https://adhyyan.me/AdhyyanSekhsariaResume.pdf)
- Previous roles include Software Engineer at quadric.io; Software Engineer at Lunchclub. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/adhyyansekhsaria)
- Adhyyan Sekhsaria's CodeForces profile is Adhyyan1252 (http://codeforces.com/profile/Adhyyan1252). (https://stats.ioinformatics.org/people/6540, http://codeforces.com/profile/Adhyyan1252)
- Adhyyan Sekhsaria's team had a lot of practice ahead in preparation for the world finals next year. (https://global.usc.edu/usc-trojan-team-headed-to-finals-of-coding-olympics/)
- Rocketry: Increased telemetry rate by 300% using smarter encoding and compression. (https://adhyyan.me/AdhyyanSekhsariaResume.pdf)
- Rocketry: Making an IMU Sensor with FPGA to get high accuracy inertial measurements. (https://adhyyan.me/AdhyyanSekhsariaResume.pdf)
- Rocketry: Made GPS Driver for the MBed Platform; open sourced at https://bit.ly/3380exg. (https://adhyyan.me/AdhyyanSekhsariaResume.pdf, https://bit.ly/3380exg)
- Independent development: Built a chrome extension. (https://adhyyan.me/AdhyyanSekhsariaResume.pdf)
- Independent development: Trojan Hacks 3rd place; USC Schedule Maker at https://uschedulify.herokuapp.com/. (https://adhyyan.me/AdhyyanSekhsariaResume.pdf, https://uschedulify.herokuapp.com/)
- Independent development: Started 'Buddy System' to make coder meet other coders; 400 registrations. (https://adhyyan.me/AdhyyanSekhsariaResume.pdf)
- Adhyyan Sekhsaria's account joined January 2015. (https://teapawt.org/Adhyyan)
- Location is San Francisco, California, United States. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/adhyyansekhsaria)
- Adhyyan Sekhsaria is a Codeforces user with handle AsleepAdhyyan, ranked Master. (https://codeforces.com/profile/AsleepAdhyyan)
- Contest rating: 2190 (max. international master, 2309). (https://codeforces.com/profile/AsleepAdhyyan)
- From University of Southern California. (https://codeforces.com/profile/AsleepAdhyyan)
- Adhyyan Sekhsaria is listed with country India on his CPHO profile. (https://cphof.org/profile/codeforces:AsleepAdhyyan)
- Adhyyan Sekhsaria is listed on his resume as based in Mumbai/Los-Angeles. (https://adhyyan.me/AdhyyanSekhsariaResume.pdf)
- Relevant coursework listed: Advanced Algorithms (Doctorate level), Embedded Systems, Software Dev. (https://adhyyan.me/AdhyyanSekhsariaResume.pdf)
- Skills listed: C++, C, Java, Python, JavaScript, Machine Learning, AI, Optimization, Problem Solving. (https://adhyyan.me/AdhyyanSekhsariaResume.pdf)
- GitHub profile listed: github.com/Adhyyan1252. (https://adhyyan.me/AdhyyanSekhsariaResume.pdf)

## Experience
- Founding Engineer at Cognition - San Francisco Bay Area (Nov 2023 - Present)
- Software Engineer at quadric.io - Burlingame, California, United States (May 2022 - Nov 2023): - ML Compilers
- High Performance Library for NN inference
- Software Engineer at Lunchclub (Sep 2020 - Aug 2021)

## Education
- University of Southern California - Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics(BS) - (Jan 2019 - Jan 2022)
- Oberoi International School - School - (Jan 2011 - Jan 2017)

## Sources
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/adhyyansekhsaria
- https://github.com/Adhyyan1252
- https://x.com/Adhyyan
- https://cphof.org/profile/codeforces:AsleepAdhyyan
- https://teapawt.org/Adhyyan
- https://stats.ioinformatics.org/people/6540
- https://codeforces.com/profile/AsleepAdhyyan
- https://adhyyan.me/AdhyyanSekhsariaResume.pdf
- https://listenlabs.com/case-studies/cognition
- https://global.usc.edu/usc-trojan-team-headed-to-finals-of-coding-olympics/
- https://view.inews.qq.com/a/20260314A0425Y00
- http://codeforces.com/profile/Adhyyan1252
- https://bit.ly/3380exg
- https://uschedulify.herokuapp.com/


Researched with Autumn (https://www.autumn.ai) from public sources. Updated 2026-11-04. Profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/adhyyan-sekhsaria · Everyone at Cognition: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people