Engineering · Special Projects Engineer

Charlie Meyer

“Echols Scholar @ UVA | Neo scholar”

Joined
Apr 2026
How they joined
Directly
Before Cognition
University of VirginiaResearcher
Status
Current

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Researched with Autumn · 2026-11-04
Details
LocationSan Francisco, CA
Company sitecognition.ai
UniversityUniversity of Virginia
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)DockerPineconeRedisGoogle Kubernetes Engine (GKE)Application Programming Interfaces (API)Redux.jsFirebaseSimple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)SeleniumPyTorchFigma (Software)GitDjangoReact.jsCascading Style Sheets (CSS)HTMLJavaScriptPython (Programming Language)JavaAGI and AI safetycoding agentsRL environmentsAI research infrastructureinterpretabilityformal math (Lean)
Notes
  • Listed as a contributor to @cognition-ai/harness-devin on npm, which ships runnable examples for the Devin SDK, a concrete public artifact of his Cognition Special Projects work.2026
  • Publicly disclosed critical vulnerabilities in the Series.so app on X: "I was poking around the Series.so app and found critical vulnerabilities" (427 likes), his most-engaged original post.Jul 18, 2025I was poking around the Series.​so app and found critical vulnerabilities: - backend api fully open exposing all user data (names, emails phone numbers) - automated race detection - view any user's private google calendar disclosed to the team & vulns are now fixed. read mo
  • Public headline says "Echols Scholar @ UVA | Neo scholar".Nov 2026
  • Published the Hugging Face dataset charliemeyer2000/ai4math-lean (Lean formal-math problems incl. a compfiles split), tied to his UVA undergraduate thesis on RL for Lean advised by Zhepei Wei.2026
  • Posted about a Neo hackathon project built with Neo peers: "Check out some fun stuff I did with an incredible team at a @neo hackathon!! cc: @denizbirlikci @pearlnatalia_ @_rajanagarwal @rylandbirch", naming his hackathon teammates, a warm-path cluster in the Neo Scholars network.Dec 2, 2025Check out some fun stuff I did with an incredible team at a @neo hackathon!! cc: @denizbirlikci @pearlnatalia_ @_rajanagarwal @rylandbirch
  • Most recent X post during his Cognition tenure reads simply: "saving the world!!!"; no detailed public post about his Cognition work was found in his X timeline.Oct 26, 2026saving the world!!!
  • Endorsed a community program on X: "best community I've been a part of & I can't recommend more for you to apply!".May 21, 2026best community I’ve been a part of & I can’t recommend more for you to apply!
  • Announced the self-driving couch project on X: "got pulled over on my self-driving couch".May 10, 2026got pulled over on my self-driving couch https://t.co/AfhAwaxH8y
  • Built a self-driving couch from a $5 Goodwill couch with a drivable frame, vision, depth perception, and navigation Quote: "We built a self-driving couch! This was the culmination of a semester of on-and-off work, taking a $5 couch from Goodwill, building a drivable frame around it, and wiring up vision, depth perception, and navigation into it."May 2026
  • Streamed data from a custom iPhone app (GPS, LiDAR, cameras) and motor IMU telemetry into a Jetson Orin Nano running ROS 2 Quote: "In short, we stream data from a custom iPhone app (GPS, LiDAR, cameras) along with other telemetry data from our motors (IMU data) into a Jetson Orin Nano, which runs ROS 2."May 2026
  • Created navigation nodes to plan a path with Nav2 and send commands to the motors Quote: "We created navigation nodes to plan a path with Nav2 and send commands to the motors."May 2026
  • Built a custom teleoperation interface, bagging/backtesting infrastructure, and made fun runs throughout Grounds Quote: "Additionally, we built a custom teleoperation interface to manually control the couch, bagging/backtesting infrastructure, and then made a couple of fun runs throughout Grounds for your viewing pleasure."May 2026

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