# Gennady Korotkevich

![Gennady Korotkevich](/resources/cognition/portraits/gennady-korotkevich.webp)

tourist  
Cognition  
San Francisco, California, United States

## At Cognition

- Role: Software Engineer (Engineering)
- Joined: Dec 2024
- How they joined: Directly
- Before Cognition: Research Engineer, Ramp
- Olympiads: IOI gold 2007–2012, silver 2006 (https://www.autumn.ai/resources/olympiads/gennady-korotkevich-olp-ca9a0cbcaa71541c9702)
- Overlapped before Cognition with other Cognition people at: USA1 (Universal Cup) 2025; Ramp (https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/worked-together)

## Identity
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gennady-korotkevich
- X: @que_tourist
- GitHub: https://github.com/the-tourist

## Notes
- Posted on 2025-08-04: "Cognition is the first AI lab to win a verified gold medal at the IOI. Our human, ryanbAI (@ryanbai), placed 7th overall. Impressively, ryanbAI competed under the exact same conditions as all human contestants.". (https://x.com/que_tourist/status/1952457231225749598)
- Announced joining Cognition on X on 2024-12-11 with the words "Excited to work on making Devin smarter!", framing his role as improving the reasoning of Cognition's autonomous coding agent Devin. (https://x.com/que_tourist/status/1866705352710033467)
- Reposted Cognition's 2025-07-14 announcement that it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf; Cognition's blog says the deal includes Windsurf's IP, product, trademark and brand. (https://cognition.ai/blog/windsurf)
- On the Devin 2.0 agent-native IDE launch (2025-04-03) he quoted Cognition's post with: "AI is not the best competitive programmer in the world yet, but we're still putting it to good use" - a self-aware nod that the world's top human competitor is helping build an AI coder. (https://x.com/que_tourist/status/1907845539292741661)
- LinkedIn lists him as Software Engineer at Cognition since December 2024, based in San Francisco; before that Research Engineer at Ramp from April 2023 to December 2024, so the move to Cognition came straight from Ramp's research engineering role. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gennady-korotkevich)
- Current role is Software Engineer at Cognition. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gennady-korotkevich)
- Passed a 4000 Codeforces rating again in August 2024 (4009 on 2024-08-30), posting: "Topcoder paused their competitions, so I had to go for another 4000." (https://x.com/que_tourist/status/1829608182924394848)
- Moved to St. Petersburg in fall 2012 for ITMO University (BSc & MSc in Computer Science 2012-2018, then a PhD student in 2019); won the ICPC World Finals with ITMO in 2013 (St. Petersburg) and 2015. He turned down Google and Yandex offers to keep studying, per a 2017 interview. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennady_Korotkevich)
- Returned to the IOI in August 2026, posting "Long time no see, IOI!" - his first IOI appearance post in years (he last competed as a contestant in 2012). (https://x.com/que_tourist/status/2086450034111840582)
- Served as a judge of the ICPC World Finals in 2024 and 2025: "Come watch the 2025 ICPC World Finals live stream! Just like last year, I'm one of the judges." (https://x.com/que_tourist/status/1963496164466028782)
- Won the 2021 ICFP Programming Contest with teammates Roman Udovichenko and Borys Minaiev (@bminaiev): "Yay, won ICFPC! Thanks to my cool teammates Roman Udovichenko and @bminaiev!" His GitHub pins the team's ICFPC 2020-2022 repos (romka-u/icfpc2020, bminaiev/ICFPC2021, bminaiev/ICFPC2022). (https://x.com/que_tourist/status/1430836007419715586)
- Public headline says "tourist". (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gennady-korotkevich)
- Open source: his GitHub the-tourist hosts 'algo', a public C++ library of competitive-programming algorithms and data structures with ~700 stars and ~196 forks, widely reused by competitors. (https://github.com/the-tourist/algo)
- Promotes Midnight Code Cup, a programming competition where coding agents are allowed (2026 qualifier April 11, finals July 4-5). (https://x.com/que_tourist/status/2039044647838974321)
- Congratulated Psyho for beating OpenAI in the AtCoder World Tour Finals Heuristic contest: "Well done @FakePsyho for keeping humans on top in the Heuristic contest! Looking forward to @OpenAI making similar progress in Algorithm competitions :)" (https://x.com/que_tourist/status/1945615217129656413)
- Won Google Code Jam 2014-2020 and 2022, Facebook/Meta Hacker Cup 2014, 2015, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2025 and TCO Algorithm 2014, 2019-2021; TCO21 'keeps the crown for another year'. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennady_Korotkevich)
- Won Google Hash Code 2019 and 2020 and placed 2nd in 2021 with team 'Past Glory'; also won Codechef Snackdown 2016 as a team. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennady_Korotkevich)
- Still competes and streams in 2026: live-streamed an old-school speed coding tournament on 2026-02-28 and the Codeforces Blitz Cup 2026 on his YouTube channel @que_tourist (~76K subscribers). (https://x.com/que_tourist/status/2027668925396488287)
- Previous roles include Software Engineer at Cognition; Research Engineer at Ramp. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gennady-korotkevich)
- Education history includes BSc & MSc, Computer Science, Университет ИТМО. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gennady-korotkevich)
- Location is San Francisco Bay Area. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gennady-korotkevich)

## Experience
- Software Engineer at Cognition (Dec 2024 - Present)
- Research Engineer at Ramp (Apr 2023 - Dec 2024)

## Education
- Университет ИТМО - BSc & MSc, Computer Science - (Jan 2012 - Dec 2018)

## Sources
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/gennady-korotkevich
- https://x.com/que_tourist
- https://x.com/que_tourist/status/1866705352710033467
- https://x.com/que_tourist/status/2086450034111840582
- https://x.com/que_tourist/status/1829608182924394848
- https://x.com/que_tourist/status/1945615217129656413
- https://x.com/que_tourist/status/1952457231225749598
- https://stats.ioinformatics.org/people/804
- https://x.com/que_tourist/status/1907845539292741661
- https://cognition.ai/blog/windsurf
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennady_Korotkevich
- https://x.com/que_tourist/status/1430836007419715586
- https://github.com/the-tourist/algo
- https://github.com/the-tourist
- https://x.com/que_tourist/status/1963496164466028782
- https://x.com/que_tourist/status/1767699642844651817
- https://x.com/que_tourist/status/2039044647838974321
- https://x.com/que_tourist/status/2027668925396488287


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