# Ashwin Ramaswami

![Ashwin Ramaswami](/resources/cognition/portraits/ashwin-ramaswami.webp)

Member of Technical Staff at Cognition  
Cognition  
United States

## At Cognition

- Role: Member of Technical Staff (Engineering)
- Joined: Jan 2025
- How they joined: With Corridor (https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/acquisitions/corridor)
- Before Corridor: ABA Steiger Fellow, State of Georgia Office of the Attorney General

## Identity
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashwin-r
- X: @AshwinRamaswami
- GitHub: https://github.com/epicfaace
- Website: https://ashwin.run

## Notes
- On 2026-10-29, Ashwin Ramaswami announced that Corridor is joining Cognition. (https://x.com/AshwinRamaswami/status/2115874019702706641)
- On 2026-10-29, Cognition announced it is acquiring Corridor. (https://x.com/AshwinRamaswami/status/2115874019702706641)
- Ashwin Ramaswami is a co-founder of Corridor alongside Jack Cable, and both previously worked at CISA. (https://explainx.ai/blog/cognition-acquires-corridor-devin-security-ex-cisa-founders-stamos-agent-written-code-guardrails-2026)
- Cognition, the company behind the Devin coding agent, is acquiring Corridor, the startup co-founded by Ashwin Ramaswami, per AlphaSignal's report published October 29, 2026. (https://explainx.ai/blog/cognition-acquires-corridor-devin-security-ex-cisa-founders-stamos-agent-written-code-guardrails-2026)
- Corridor's team and product will join Devin Security, and financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. (https://explainx.ai/blog/cognition-acquires-corridor-devin-security-ex-cisa-founders-stamos-agent-written-code-guardrails-2026)
- Cognition acquired Corridor on 28 October with terms undisclosed. (https://mandos.io/brief/market-brief-8-appsec-inside-coding-agent)
- Cognition said the Corridor team will take Devin Security "to the next level". (https://mandos.io/brief/market-brief-8-appsec-inside-coding-agent)
- A month before the acquisition, Cognition hired Alex Stamos, who had worked at Corridor, as its own CISO. (https://mandos.io/brief/market-brief-8-appsec-inside-coding-agent)
- Corridor announced $25 million in funding led by Felicis at a $200 million valuation. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/03/18/corridor-200-million-ai-cyber-startup/)
- Corridor raised a $25M Series A led by Felicis in March at a $200M valuation, according to Forbes. (https://mandos.io/brief/market-brief-8-appsec-inside-coding-agent)
- Ashwin Ramaswami co-authored the Corridor general availability launch blog post 'Launching Corridor: The Security Layer for AI Coding' on 2025-10-23. (https://www.corridor.dev/blog/launching-corridor)
- Ashwin Ramaswami co-founded Corridor with Jack Cable, launching the company in early 2025. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/03/18/corridor-200-million-ai-cyber-startup/)
- Corridor was founded in 2025 by Jack Cable, who led Secure by Design at CISA, and Ashwin Ramaswami. (https://mandos.io/brief/market-brief-8-appsec-inside-coding-agent)
- Ashwin Ramaswami co-authored 'On the Societal Impact of Open Foundation Models' (arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.07918) in 2024. (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-1iVlN8AAAAJ&hl=en)
- Ashwin Ramaswami co-authored 'Considerations for governing open foundation models' in Science 386 (6718), 151-153, 2024. (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-1iVlN8AAAAJ&hl=en)
- Ashwin Ramaswami co-authored 'A safe harbor for ai evaluation and red teaming' (arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.04893) in 2024. (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-1iVlN8AAAAJ&hl=en)
- Ashwin Ramaswami co-authored 'Fact and Friction: A Case Study in the Fight Against False News' in UC Davis L. Rev. 57, 171, 2023. (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-1iVlN8AAAAJ&hl=en)
- Ashwin Ramaswami co-authored 'Interactive programming paradigm for real-time experimentation with remote living matter' in PNAS 116 (12), 5411-5419, 2019. (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-1iVlN8AAAAJ&hl=en)
- Ashwin Ramaswami co-authored 'Prototyping biotic games and interactive experiments with JavaScript' in Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2018. (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-1iVlN8AAAAJ&hl=en)
- Ashwin Ramaswami is Co-founder & CTO of Corridor. (https://www.corridor.dev/about/)
- Ashwin Ramaswami is described as an engineer and published researcher in AI & foundation models at Stanford. (https://www.corridor.dev/about/)
- Corridor is joining Cognition. (https://www.corridor.dev/about/)
- Ashwin Ramaswami is a co-founder of Corridor. (https://alphasignal.ai/news/cognition-acquires-corridor-to-add-security-controls-to-devin)
- Ashwin Ramaswami previously worked at the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). (https://alphasignal.ai/news/cognition-acquires-corridor-to-add-security-controls-to-devin)
- Ashwin Ramaswami is joining Cognition as part of the Corridor acquisition. (https://alphasignal.ai/news/cognition-acquires-corridor-to-add-security-controls-to-devin)
- Ashwin Ramaswami co-founded Corridor with Jack Cable nearly two years before the announcement. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ashwin-r_today-corridor-is-joining-cognition-jack-activity-7521642668993720320-pAPJ)
- Ashwin Ramaswami is looking forward to scaling Corridor's impact by taking Devin for Security to the next level. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ashwin-r_today-corridor-is-joining-cognition-jack-activity-7521642668993720320-pAPJ)
- Ashwin Ramaswami is a co-founder of Corridor, the security layer for AI coding. (https://www.corridor.dev/blog/launching-corridor)
- Corridor is joining Cognition, as announced on the Corridor blog. (https://www.corridor.dev/blog/launching-corridor)
- Ashwin Ramaswami is listed on Google Scholar as CTO and Co-founder of Corridor. (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-1iVlN8AAAAJ&hl=en)
- Corridor's product reviews code while AI agents and people write it, so a flaw gets flagged before the code ships rather than after. (https://mandos.io/brief/market-brief-8-appsec-inside-coding-agent)
- Ashwin Ramaswami said he was excited to join forces with Russell Kaplan (@russelljkaplan) as part of the Corridor-Cognition deal. (https://x.com/AshwinRamaswami/status/2115874019702706641)
- Ashwin Ramaswami said he would work together with Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) once again. (https://x.com/AshwinRamaswami/status/2115874019702706641)
- Corridor had raised about $30.4M total, including a $25M Series A at a $200M valuation led by Felicis, per AlphaSignal. (https://explainx.ai/blog/cognition-acquires-corridor-devin-security-ex-cisa-founders-stamos-agent-written-code-guardrails-2026)
- Cognition president Russell Kaplan was listed among Corridor's earliest advisers. (https://explainx.ai/blog/cognition-acquires-corridor-devin-security-ex-cisa-founders-stamos-agent-written-code-guardrails-2026)
- Corridor's investors include Felicis, Conviction, Timeless, Artisanal Ventures, Lux Capital, Sunflower Capital, Datadog, SV Angel and individuals affiliated with Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, Cognition, Factory and Lovable. (https://explainx.ai/blog/cognition-acquires-corridor-devin-security-ex-cisa-founders-stamos-agent-written-code-guardrails-2026)
- Corridor's product provides development guidance through integrations with Cursor, Claude Code and Codex, pre-commit scanning, repository-specific policies, merge enforcement and investigation/fixes via Slack or the web. (https://explainx.ai/blog/cognition-acquires-corridor-devin-security-ex-cisa-founders-stamos-agent-written-code-guardrails-2026)
- Cognition launched Devin Security on October 26, 2026, three days before the Corridor acquisition report. (https://explainx.ai/blog/cognition-acquires-corridor-devin-security-ex-cisa-founders-stamos-agent-written-code-guardrails-2026)
- Corridor became generally available and is accessible through its app, the Vercel Marketplace, and the Cursor, Devin, and Windsurf MCP marketplaces. (https://www.corridor.dev/blog/launching-corridor)
- Corridor launched as the first security offering in the Vercel Marketplace. (https://www.corridor.dev/blog/launching-corridor)
- Corridor's product includes security guardrails that integrate with coding agents including Factory, Cursor, Windsurf, and Claude Code. (https://www.corridor.dev/blog/launching-corridor)
- Corridor offers instant PR reviews that automatically review every pull request to prevent vulnerabilities. (https://www.corridor.dev/blog/launching-corridor)
- Corridor provides full visibility into the security of AI-generated code, including vulnerabilities introduced and MCP servers. (https://www.corridor.dev/blog/launching-corridor)
- Corridor's Vercel integration lets developers add the Corridor PR Review Bot to detect and prevent vulnerabilities in pull requests. (https://www.corridor.dev/blog/launching-corridor)
- Corridor's Vercel integration can scan Vercel projects for vulnerabilities in pull requests and generate custom security guardrails tailored to each codebase. (https://www.corridor.dev/blog/launching-corridor)
- Corridor's guardrails can be implemented in the IDE extension to guide AI agents and developers to write secure code from the start. (https://www.corridor.dev/blog/launching-corridor)
- The day after his November 2024 loss, Jack Cable called Ashwin Ramaswami to pitch starting a company. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/03/18/corridor-200-million-ai-cyber-startup/)
- After CISA, Ashwin Ramaswami briefly took a tech policy role at Schmidt Futures. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/03/18/corridor-200-million-ai-cyber-startup/)
- Corridor's team has published AI research at Stanford. (https://www.corridor.dev/about/)
- Corridor's team worked on national cybersecurity initiatives in the U.S. government. (https://www.corridor.dev/about/)
- Corridor was founded to build security into every step of the modern development lifecycle. (https://www.corridor.dev/about/)
- Corridor is backed by investors including Felicis, Conviction, Timeless Ventures, Artisanal Ventures, Lux Capital, Datadog, and SV Angel. (https://www.corridor.dev/about/)
- Russell Kaplan, President of Cognition, is listed as an angel backer of Corridor. (https://www.corridor.dev/about/)
- Ashwin Ramaswami co-founded Corridor with Jack Cable to address a growing review burden as AI agents produce more code. (https://alphasignal.ai/news/cognition-acquires-corridor-to-add-security-controls-to-devin)
- Alex Stamos had conducted research with Cable and Ramaswami before joining Corridor. (https://alphasignal.ai/news/cognition-acquires-corridor-to-add-security-controls-to-devin)
- Cognition is acquiring Corridor, with Corridor's team and product joining Devin Security. (https://alphasignal.ai/news/cognition-acquires-corridor-to-add-security-controls-to-devin)
- Financial terms of Cognition's acquisition of Corridor were not disclosed. (https://alphasignal.ai/news/cognition-acquires-corridor-to-add-security-controls-to-devin)
- Corridor had raised approximately $30.4 million in total across its seed and Series A rounds. (https://alphasignal.ai/news/cognition-acquires-corridor-to-add-security-controls-to-devin)
- Corridor raised a $25 million Series A at a $200 million valuation led by Felicis. (https://alphasignal.ai/news/cognition-acquires-corridor-to-add-security-controls-to-devin)
- Ashwin Ramaswami and Jack Cable met at Stanford. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/03/18/corridor-200-million-ai-cyber-startup/)
- Corridor's angel investors include Anton Osika, Christina Cacioppo, and Mike Krieger. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/03/18/corridor-200-million-ai-cyber-startup/)
- Corridor's product is an AI system that watches over AI and human operators as they code and issues alerts when vulnerabilities arise. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/03/18/corridor-200-million-ai-cyber-startup/)
- Corridor was founded with the mission of accelerating secure and autonomous software development. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ashwin-r_today-corridor-is-joining-cognition-jack-activity-7521642668993720320-pAPJ)
- Ashwin Ramaswami stated that the next 6-12 months represent the most consequential period in the history of cybersecurity. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ashwin-r_today-corridor-is-joining-cognition-jack-activity-7521642668993720320-pAPJ)
- Ashwin Ramaswami's Google Scholar profile lists a verified email at georgetown.edu. (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-1iVlN8AAAAJ&hl=en)
- Ashwin Ramaswami's Google Scholar co-authors include Kevin Klyman, Rishi Bommasani, Sayash Kapoor, Percy Liang, Arvind Narayanan, Shayne Longpre, Daniel Zhang, Aviya Skowron, Peter Henderson, Peter Cihon, Shirish Goyal, Peter Yiğitcan Washington, and Ingmar H Riedel-Kruse. (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-1iVlN8AAAAJ&hl=en)
- Ashwin Ramaswami was a Microsoft Certified Professional in HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript development. (https://imaginecup.microsoft.com/en-us/Team/Index/7fc75f1f-4b84-4e2b-bfd5-51873c407a2c)
- Ashwin Ramaswami worked as a full-stack website and mobile app developer in his free time and planned to major in computer science. (https://imaginecup.microsoft.com/en-us/Team/Index/7fc75f1f-4b84-4e2b-bfd5-51873c407a2c)
- Ashwin Ramaswami's personal website was https://epicfaace.github.io/. (https://imaginecup.microsoft.com/en-us/Team/Index/7fc75f1f-4b84-4e2b-bfd5-51873c407a2c, https://epicfaace.github.io/)
- The Scholarship Buddy project source was hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/epicfaace/ScholarshipBuddy. (https://imaginecup.microsoft.com/en-us/Team/Index/7fc75f1f-4b84-4e2b-bfd5-51873c407a2c, https://github.com/epicfaace/ScholarshipBuddy)
- Ashwin Ramaswami framed the next 6-12 months as the most consequential period in the history of cybersecurity because AI agents can now execute end-to-end attack chains. (https://x.com/AshwinRamaswami/status/2115874019702706641)
- Corridor's homepage states: "Autonomous agents ship without a human in the loop. Corridor keeps security in it." (https://explainx.ai/blog/cognition-acquires-corridor-devin-security-ex-cisa-founders-stamos-agent-written-code-guardrails-2026)
- Devin's disclosed customers include Mercedes-Benz, the U.S. Army and AT&T. (https://explainx.ai/blog/cognition-acquires-corridor-devin-security-ex-cisa-founders-stamos-agent-written-code-guardrails-2026)
- Cognition's valuation is reported at roughly $48 billion. (https://explainx.ai/blog/cognition-acquires-corridor-devin-security-ex-cisa-founders-stamos-agent-written-code-guardrails-2026)
- Alex Stamos joined Cognition as chief security officer roughly a month before the acquisition. (https://explainx.ai/blog/cognition-acquires-corridor-devin-security-ex-cisa-founders-stamos-agent-written-code-guardrails-2026)
- Devin Security is described as powered by Claude Mythos and frontier cyber models plus hundreds of millions of dollars of credits. (https://explainx.ai/blog/cognition-acquires-corridor-devin-security-ex-cisa-founders-stamos-agent-written-code-guardrails-2026)
- Cognition bought Windsurf in 2025 and acquired Poke in July 2026. (https://explainx.ai/blog/cognition-acquires-corridor-devin-security-ex-cisa-founders-stamos-agent-written-code-guardrails-2026)
- Corridor hired former Facebook CISO Alex Stamos as CISO and Joel Wallenstrom as general manager. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/03/18/corridor-200-million-ai-cyber-startup/)
- Corridor integrates with Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex to provide security guidance during development, scan changes before commit, and review pull requests. (https://alphasignal.ai/news/cognition-acquires-corridor-to-add-security-controls-to-devin)
- Corridor's customers include Pylon and Sublime Security. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/03/18/corridor-200-million-ai-cyber-startup/)
- Jake Storm of Felicis led the Corridor funding round. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/03/18/corridor-200-million-ai-cyber-startup/)
- Ashwin Ramaswami expressed gratitude to Corridor's team, customers, and investors for their support. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ashwin-r_today-corridor-is-joining-cognition-jack-activity-7521642668993720320-pAPJ)
- Ashwin Ramaswami's Google Scholar profile links to his homepage at ashwin.run. (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-1iVlN8AAAAJ&hl=en)
- Ashwin Ramaswami's Google Scholar profile carries the labels law and technology. (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-1iVlN8AAAAJ&hl=en)
- Ashwin Ramaswami's Google Scholar profile shows 427 total citations, an h-index of 7, and an i10-index of 6. (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-1iVlN8AAAAJ&hl=en)
- Ashwin Ramaswami was a freshman at Stanford University at the time of the Imagine Cup team page. (https://imaginecup.microsoft.com/en-us/Team/Index/7fc75f1f-4b84-4e2b-bfd5-51873c407a2c)
- Ashwin Ramaswami was an admin of the Imagine Cup team 'Ramaswami Bros', a public team listed under the United States, Stanford, and Georgia Tech. (https://imaginecup.microsoft.com/en-us/Team/Index/7fc75f1f-4b84-4e2b-bfd5-51873c407a2c)
- Public headline says "Member of Technical Staff at Cognition". (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashwin-r)
- Location is United States. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashwin-r)

## Experience
- Member of Technical Staff at Cognition (Oct 2026 - Present)
- CTO & Co-founder at Corridor (Jan 2025 - Present): At Corridor, we help developers write more secure code at scale.
- Analyst at Schmidt Futures (Mar 2021 - Dec 2023): Created and managed a grantmaking program around supporting and sustaining open source software (OSS) communities.
- Fritz Family Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center (Jun 2022 - Nov 2023): Launched the Judicial Innovation Fellowship program, which places technologists into courts to improve access to justice.
- ABA Steiger Fellow at State of Georgia Office of the Attorney General (Jul 2023 - Aug 2023): ABA Steiger Fellow at the Office of Consumer Protection.
- Summer Associate at McKool Smith (May 2023 - Jun 2023): Worked on patent litigation and trial matters.
- Technology Law and Policy Fellow at Sequoia Capital (Jan 2023 - Jun 2023): Advised investors on policy updates, including areas of interest such as generative AI and open source software.
- Technical Consultant at Caldera (May 2022 - Mar 2023): Built out technical infrastructure for rollups using Kubernetes and AWS.
- Legal Fellow at Wikimedia Foundation (Jun 2022 - Aug 2022): Supported the legal team with legal research on topics including Internet freedom, IP and copyright. Hosted a panel on common carrier laws, social media platforms, and free speech.
- Software Engineer at Maple (Jan 2022 - May 2022): Built out technical infrastructure for Maple Solana.
- Technical Consultant at Eventive (Jun 2019 - Oct 2021): Architected and implemented a system for ingesting and serving both livestream and video content using Azure Media Services.
- Research Assistant at Stanford Internet Observatory - Stanford, California, United States (Apr 2020 - Aug 2021): Worked on trust and safety research. Architected and implemented web scraping infrastructure to support Internet web scraping and social media analysis. Built data pipelines using Apache Beam and Dataflow, BigQuery, and Twitter APIs such as PowerTrack to process tweets in real time.
- Technical Consultant at Pulsar (Mar 2020 - Aug 2021): Architected and implemented a distributed system for aggregating industrial sensor data for the startup Pulsar, using AWS Lambda, React, and Cassandra on AWS. Interviewed and built a team of developers for product development.
- Research Assistant at Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis - Stanford, California, United States (Oct 2018 - Jun 2021): Worked on the Grand Tour Project, a digital humanities interactive tool with data visualization that uses D3, Angular, and MongoDB. Mentored other students who joined the team.
- Technical Consultant at Nooks (Sep 2020 - Jan 2021): Improved scalability for the video-calling platform of the startup Nooks. Set up a CI/CD pipeline and infrastructure with Google App Engine, Google Cloud Build, and Google Kubernetes Engine.
- Technical Consultant at Skiff (Mar 2020 - Sep 2020): Set up CI pipelines, developer infrastructure, and developed features for the end-to-end encrypted document collaboration platform Skiff. Uses React, Express.
- Chief Technology Officer at The Stanford Daily (Mar 2020 - Jun 2020)

## Education
- Stanford University - Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science
- Georgetown University Law Center - Doctor of Law - JD
- Georgia Institute of Technology

## Sources
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashwin-r
- https://mandos.io/brief/market-brief-8-appsec-inside-coding-agent
- https://alphasignal.ai/news/cognition-acquires-corridor-to-add-security-controls-to-devin
- https://www.corridor.dev/about/
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ashwin-r_today-corridor-is-joining-cognition-jack-activity-7521642668993720320-pAPJ
- https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-1iVlN8AAAAJ&hl=en
- https://www.corridor.dev/blog/launching-corridor
- https://explainx.ai/blog/cognition-acquires-corridor-devin-security-ex-cisa-founders-stamos-agent-written-code-guardrails-2026
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/03/18/corridor-200-million-ai-cyber-startup/
- https://imaginecup.microsoft.com/en-us/Team/Index/7fc75f1f-4b84-4e2b-bfd5-51873c407a2c
- https://x.com/AshwinRamaswami/status/2115874019702706641
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- https://api.github.com/users/epicfaace
- https://x.com/AshwinRamaswami
- https://epicfaace.github.io/
- https://github.com/epicfaace/ScholarshipBuddy
- https://ashwin.run/


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