- Joined
- Jan 2026
- How they joined
- Directly
- Before Cognition
- ZellicLead Security Engineer
- Status
- Current
- LinkedIn shows a direct move from Lead Security Engineer at Zellic (Apr 2024 - Oct 2025) to Member of Technical Staff at Cognition (from 2026).Jan 2026
- Current role is Member of Technical Staff at Cognition.
- Personal site str.lc describes current work verbatim as "Writing some slop @ Cognition." and lists prior employers as "Zellic, Cure53 / Electrovolt, AWS, NASA ARC."
- @jhanikhil stated that he and @strellic (Bryce Casaje) did a full 1:1 file-by-file port of Minecraft from Java to Rust, with both the server and client ported.Oct 14, 2026
- @jhanikhil stated that most of the mechanical porting of Minecraft from Java to Rust was done by swe-2, with some high-level guidance for how to translate Java to Rust from devin ultra, in the project he worked on with @strellic.Oct 14, 2026
- Only original X post naming Cognition: reply to @jkelleyrtp (Jonathan Kelley, Dioxus creator) "@jkelleyrtp @cognition Welcome!!!".Sep 10, 2026@jkelleyrtp @cognition Welcome!!!
- DEF CON CTF finalist six times (29-34) per his site; plays with DiceGang (merged team SuperDiceCode placed 3rd at DEF CON CTF finals 2026, which he reshared) and Crusaders of Rust, whose corCTF he co-hosts.Aug 2026
- Member of the US team at the International Cybersecurity Challenge (ICC) and the European Cybersecurity Challenge (ECSC) 2024-25, per his site; listed in US Cyber Games Season IV roster (Round 2 with Alex Zhang).2024
- Open source: my-ctf-challenges (63 stars, JavaScript) collects his public CTF challenges; rhythm-cons holds rhythm-game controller designs; pathpatch (Rust, 2026) is an HTTPS path-interception tool built with devin-ai-integration[bot] PRs.Aug 2026
- At Cure53 (Nov 2022 - Apr 2024) he worked as a Security Engineer and his site credits Cure53's Electrovolt desk (Electron app security research) alongside it.Nov 2022
- Public headline says "EECS @ UC Berkeley grad | now @ Cognition".
- Prem Qu Nair (@premqnair) replied to Bryce Casaje's post on 2026-06-10 telling him it is a permanent underclass for him.Jun 10, 2026i cant use fable, it might be over for me https://t.co/u5tliKgrR1
Led security audits and identified critical vulnerabilities in software used by millions of users.
Audited and identified critical vulnerabilities in software used by millions of users.
Interned at AWS in Seattle as a Software Development Engineer, Summer 2022. Built internal tooling for managing EC2 instance capacity across AWS infrastructure. Integrated with internal AWS data sources and APIs to automate capacity management workflows.
Interned at NASA Ames on the Activity Planning with Resources for the Exploration of Space (APRES) project. Developed tooling for AI scheduling and planning of space exploration missions. Built internal applications to improve working with custom domain-specific languages, working on programs to help facilitate error checking and syntax highlighting. Improved the language's internal lexer and parser to expand coverage and reliability.
@jkelleyrtp @cognition Welcome!!!
there's actually no way... https://t.co/wbXeu4fusD
i cant use fable, it might be over for me https://t.co/u5tliKgrR1
