# Gabriel Andretta

![Gabriel Andretta](/resources/cognition/portraits/gabriel-andretta.webp)

Software Engineer at Cognition (Devin); ex-CADstar, FOSSA, Scale AI, Auth0; Clojure community veteran from Santa Fe, Argentina  
Cognition  
Argentina

## At Cognition

- Role: Software Engineer (Engineering)
- Joined: May 2025
- How they joined: Directly
- Before Cognition: Software Engineer, CADstar
- Overlapped before Cognition with other Cognition people at: Auth0 (https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/worked-together)

## Identity
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gnandretta
- GitHub: https://github.com/gnandretta
- Domain: cognition.ai

## Notes
- Joined Cognition (maker of Devin) as a Software Engineer in May 2025, about two months before Cognition acquired Windsurf in July 2025. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gnandretta)
- Reposted Cognition's May 2026 funding announcement on LinkedIn: "We’ve raised over $1B at a $26B valuation, led by Lux Capital, General Catalyst, and 8VC.

We’re grateful that our existing investors have doubled down including Founders Fund, Definition, Omri Casspi, Conversion Capital, Positive Sum, Avenir, Vitruvian Partners, Bain Capital Ven" (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cognition-ai-labs_more-devins-in-more-places-cognition-activity-7465426639989018624-flk_?utm_source=social_share_send&utm_medium=member_desktop_web&rcm=ACoAAHCgeYIBwuHlpJvlJFXJfm2lCclqPEMeCiw)
- Immediately before Cognition he was a Software Engineer at CADstar (Feb 2024 - May 2025), which a CADstar colleague's profile describes as 'a healthcare startup developing high-tech CAD/CAM dental scanners'. (https://ar.linkedin.com/in/davidcaoarg/es)
- Programmer at Scale API (now Scale AI) from June 2018 to December 2019. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gnandretta)
- Software Engineer at FOSSA (open-source license compliance and dependency analysis) from June 2020 to September 2022. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gnandretta)
- Frontend Developer at Auth0 from July 2015 to August 2016; he answered Lock (Auth0 sign-in widget) issues as a contributor, e.g. 'We ensure browser compatibility in Chrome, Safari, Firefox and IE >= 9' (Nov 24, 2015). (https://github.com/auth0/lock/issues/260)
- Thanked in the acknowledgments of Carin Meier's O'Reilly book 'Living Clojure' ('thanks to Colin Jones, Gabriel Andretta, Elliot Hauser, and Luigi Montanez'). (https://vdoc.pub/documents/living-clojure-6r7aken1cd40)
- Spent two stints at Code54 S.A. (Apr 2011 - Apr 2015, Aug 2017 - Jun 2018) building 'Web applications mostly for startups in Clojure, Ruby and JavaScript'. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gnandretta)
- Wrote 'Casting visual spells with p5.js and ClojureScript, part 1' on DEV (Apr 22, 2020), with companion repo gnandretta/sketch. (https://dev.to/gnandretta/casting-visual-spells-with-p5-js-and-clojurescript-part-1-36o5)
- In 2014 he wrote, for the Gobierno de la Ciudad de Santa Fe, 'a web application that displays live bus arrivals in Clojure and ClojureScript'. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gnandretta)
- GitHub account gnandretta (created Aug 2009, 44 public repos, Santa Fe) shows a Clojure/ClojureScript, JavaScript, Haskell and Scala trail: original repos include atom-js, cljs-lock-example, auth0-users-widget, fpinscala-exercises, cis194 and tasks; forks include kepler.gl, loaders.gl, gpu.js, ClojureBridge curriculum and Auth0 lock. (https://github.com/gnandretta)
- CADstar's co-founder and CTO (from September 2007) was Martin Huber, per a Pulse 2.0 founder interview, linking Andretta's pre-Cognition team to that founding lineage. (https://pulse2.com/amrax-martin-huber-profile/)
- Volunteer coach at ClojureBridge Buenos Aires, a free workshop aimed at bringing more women into the Clojure community; listed with Dan Midwood, Florencia Mincucci, Gustavo Giraldez, Cecilia Rivero and others. (http://bridge.clojureba.com/)
- Studied Ingenieria en Informatica at Universidad Nacional del Litoral (Santa Fe), plus UNL PHP (2006) and Ruby on Rails (2009) courses. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gnandretta)
- Short frontend stints at Citrusbyte (Jan-Jul 2017) and Folder IT (Nov-Dec 2016). (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gnandretta)
- Listed among Argentina's top GitHub users by total contributions (1,284). (https://github.com/gayanvoice/top-github-users/blob/main/markdown/total_contributions/argentina.md)

## Experience
- Software Engineer at Cognition (May 2025 - Present)
- Software Engineer at CADstar (Feb 2024 - May 2025)
- Software Engineer at FOSSA (Jun 2020 - Sep 2022)
- Programmer at Scale API (Jun 2018 - Dec 2019)
- Programmer at Code54 S.A. (Aug 2017 - Jun 2018)
- Frontend Developer at Citrusbyte (Jan 2017 - Jul 2017)
- Frontend Developer at Folder IT (Nov 2016 - Dec 2016)
- Frontend Developer at Auth0 (Jul 2015 - Aug 2016)
- Programmer at Code54 S.A. (Apr 2011 - Apr 2015): Web applications mostly for startups in Clojure, Ruby and JavaScript.
- Programmer at Gobierno de la Ciudad de Santa Fe (Feb 2014 - Jul 2014): Wrote a web application that displays live bus arrivals in Clojure and ClojureScript.

## Education
- Universidad Nacional del Litoral - Introduction to Ruby on Rails Course - (Jan 2009 - Jan 2009)
- Universidad Nacional del Litoral - PHP Course - (Jan 2006 - Jan 2006)
- Universidad Nacional del Litoral - Ingeniería en informática

## Sources
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/gnandretta
- http://bridge.clojureba.com/
- https://api.github.com/users/gnandretta/repos?per_page=100&sort=updated
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/cognition-ai-labs/posts
- https://ar.linkedin.com/in/davidcaoarg/es
- https://dev.to/gnandretta/casting-visual-spells-with-p5-js-and-clojurescript-part-1-36o5
- https://github.com/auth0/lock/issues/260
- https://x.com/ClojureBa
- https://x.com/hzalaz?lang=id
- https://github.com/gayanvoice/top-github-users/blob/main/markdown/total_contributions/argentina.md
- https://vdoc.pub/documents/living-clojure-6r7aken1cd40
- https://api.github.com/users/gnandretta
- https://pulse2.com/amrax-martin-huber-profile/
- https://github.com/gnandretta
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cognition-ai-labs_more-devins-in-more-places-cognition-activity-7465426639989018624-flk_?utm_source=social_share_send&utm_medium=member_desktop_web&rcm=ACoAAHCgeYIBwuHlpJvlJFXJfm2lCclqPEMeCiw
- https://x.com/rickyrauch


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