- Joined Cognition
- Jul 2025
- How they joined
- With Windsurf
- Before Windsurf
- LemniskSDE Intern
- Status
- Current
Overlapped before Cognition
Details
Python (Programming Language)C++DjangoJavaSQLNews WritingLeadershipCommunicationTechnical WritingWordPress
Notes
- Current public LinkedIn headline reads 'Support Eng @ Cognition', confirming the Windsurf support role carried over into Cognition after the 2025 acquisition.2026
- Joined Windsurf (then Codeium) as AI Support Engineer in August 2024, straight out of BITS Pilani Hyderabad, and was promoted to AI Support Engineering Lead in September 2025, about two months after Cognition agreed to acquire Windsurf.Sep 2025
- Current role is AI Support Engineering Lead at Windsurf.
- Posted user-facing incident updates under the name 'Lahari Gangineni (Codeium)', e.g. acknowledging that flex credits were not appearing in accounts after purchase, as quoted by a r/Codeium user during a Windsurf outage thread.Dec 2024
- Named alongside Windsurf's Matt Bergland and Vignesh Murugan as the Windsurf team behind the Windsurf x The AI Collective Open Build in Bengaluru (20+ builders, 300+ signups, hosted at Lifesight).Sep 1, 2025
- Credited as part of the Windsurf team (with Gowri Shankar Nagarajan, Prashant Pahade, Tushar Mehta tagged) behind Windsurf's first hackathon in India, held at Antler India's Bangalore office with ~100 builders and ~45 projects.May 26, 2025
- Public headline says "Windsurf | CS @ BITS Pilani".
- Joined the first Windsurf Hyderabad Meetup remotely to answer audience questions, per organizer Jayant Acharya, who also thanked Matt Bergland and Akanksha Gundeti; she acts as the support/technical voice at Windsurf community events in India.Oct 23, 2025
- SDE Intern at Lemnisk (customer data platform / marketing tech) from July to December 2023, her only industry engineering role before Windsurf.Jul 2023
- Long-running member of the Journal Club, BITS Pilani Hyderabad (Core Committee Dec 2020-Jun 2022, Secretary Jun 2022-Jun 2023), the campus student journalism body; this writing and interviewing background lines up with a later customer-facing support career.Jun 2022
- Selected as a mentee for Microsoft Engage'22 (May-June 2022), where she built a Python attendance tracker using face recognition with OpenCV and Django.May 2022
- Tagged in Tech Funding News' post on Cognition raising over $2B at a $48B valuation, alongside other Cognition employees.Sep 2026
Previous roleWindsurf (Codeium), acquired by Cognition July 2025
Experience
AI Support Engineering Lead at Windsurf
Sep 2025 - Present
AI Support Engineer at Windsurf
Aug 2024 - Present
SDE Intern at Lemnisk
Jul 2023 - Dec 2023
Secretary at Journal Club
Jun 2022 - Jun 2023
Summer Intern at Indian Red Cross Society Karnataka
Jun 2022 - Jul 2022
Worked on creating a backend interface to store data pertaining to the registration fees of the Youth Red Cross Wing of IRCS Karnataka.
Microsoft Engage'22 at Microsoft
May 2022 - Jun 2022
Selected as a mentee for Microsoft Engage'22. Built a python-based attendance tracker enabled by face recognition using OpenCV and Django.
Core Committee Member at Journal Club
Dec 2020 - Jun 2022
Education
BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
Jan 2020 - Jan 2024
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science
Projects
Face-recognition attendance tracker (Microsoft Engage'22)
Youth Red Cross registration-fee backend (IRCS Karnataka)
AchievementsSelected as mentee, Microsoft Engage'22 · Merit tuition fee waiver, BITS Pilani Hyderabad (2020-21) · Promoted to AI Support Engineering Lead at Windsurf/Cognition (Sep 2025)
VolunteeringSecretary, Journal Club BITS Pilani Hyderabad (2022-2023) · Core Committee, Journal Club (2020-2022)
Articles
Press
EventsMay 1, 2025 · Aug 9, 2025 · Oct 1, 2025
Profiles
Network
ConnectionsMatt Bergland (Windsurf) · Vignesh Murugan (Windsurf) · Dravisha Katoch · Avinash Haridas (The AI Collective) · Gautam Srikrishna · Jayant Acharya · Shreya Muralikrishna (Journal Club)
