- Joined Cognition
- Jul 2025
- How they joined
- With Windsurf
- Before Windsurf
- Emory University - Goizueta Business SchoolSoftware Engineer
- Status
- Current
Overlapped before Cognition
Details
LocationNew York City Metropolitan Area
Company sitecognition.ai
LanguagesEnglish, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin
UniversityEmory University
JavaScriptPythonCSSReactAI coding agentsMCP integrationsCustomer-facing engineeringDue diligencetechnologysustainabilityfinance
Notes
- Currently a Deployed Engineer at Cognition (makers of Devin and, since the July 2025 acquisition, Windsurf), based in the New York City area; the role started in 2026, right after she finished at Emory.2026
- Joined Cognition through the Windsurf (Codeium) route: her LinkedIn lists Deployed Engineer at Windsurf ending Aug 2025, the month after Cognition announced it was acquiring Windsurf.Aug 2025
- Was a panelist at Windsurf's 'What's New in Windsurf - Wave 11' webinar on July 23, 2025, listed as 'Gina Wang, Deployed Engineer at Windsurf' alongside Andrew Zhao and Eashan Sinha. The webinar demoed product advances and real-world team workflows in Windsurf's AI-first IDE, so customer-facing demos were part of her job.Jul 23, 2025
- Won 1st place at the CaseIT MIS Case Competition (Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver) in Feb 2026, with Goizueta BBA teammates Jenny Jiang, Sarah Hao and Timothy (Tim) Li, coached by Libby Egnor.Feb 27, 2026
- Co-presented a Windsurf x APARAVI hands-on workshop (late July 2025) with Eashan Sinha and Aaron Jimenez.Jul 29, 2025
- Interned at Scale AI on the GenAI team in 2025, before Windsurf. Her GitHub README sums up her path as 'Prev @ Windsurf, Scale AI'.2025
- Peers on the Windsurf deployed-engineering team around the acquisition included Eashan Sinha and Andrew Zhao (named co-panelists).Jul 23, 2025
- Built EIIG's 'Early Analyst Experience Grading Report System' (a React/Vite web app on Vercel, repo EIIG_Grading_System), applying her coding to run the fund's analyst program.Oct 2024
- Public headline says "Cognition".
- Forked kubernetes 'k8s-autoscaler' ('Autoscaling components for Kubernetes') in July 2026, a few months into the Cognition role.Jul 25, 2026
- Open source: GitHub gina-wang-1021 (created May 2023) has 8 public repos, mostly JavaScript/Python/CSS. They include personal_website (Vercel), EIIG_Grading_System, math_tutor (Python), Jarvis_Smart_Assistant (Python), Wordle_Game and time-tracking-dashboard. Badges include Pull Shark, Pair Extraordinaire, Quickdraw and YOLO.2026
- Software Engineer at Emory University's Goizueta Business School from 2024 to 2026, building software for the business school while still a student.2024
Experience
Deployed Engineer at Cognition
Jan 2026 - Present
Software Engineer at Emory University - Goizueta Business School
Jan 2024 - Jan 2026
Deployed Engineer at Windsurf
Jan 2025 - Aug 2025
Intern - GenAI at Scale AI
Jan 2025 - Jan 2025
Education
Emory University
Projects
Achievements1st place, CaseIT MIS Case Competition 2026 (Emory Goizueta team) · 9th of 50 teams, Division 1 programming contest (Emory CS team)
Talks
AwardsCaseIT MIS Case Competition - 1st place (2026)
Profiles
Code
Repos8
Repos
Gina-wang-1021/personal_websitegina-wang-1021/EIIG_Grading_SystemGina-wang-1021/math_tutorgina-wang-1021/Jarvis_Smart_Assistantgina-wang-1021/Wordle_GameGina-wang-1021/time-tracking-dashboardGina-wang-1021/k8s-autoscaler (fork)
Languages
JavaScriptPythonCSS
