# Mokshit Jain

![Mokshit Jain](/resources/cognition/portraits/mokshit-jain.webp)

Building Devin @ Cognition | Caltech  
Cognition  
San Francisco, California, United States

## At Cognition

- Role: Member of Technical Staff (Engineering)
- Joined: May 2024
- How they joined: Directly

## Identity
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mokshit-jain-34318018a
- X: @Mokshit06
- GitHub: https://github.com/Mokshit06
- Website: https://mokshitjain.co
- Domain: cognition.ai

## Notes
- Mokshit Jain works at Cognition AI as a Software Engineer, UI, from June 2024 to Present. (https://mokshitjain.co/Resume.pdf)
- Mokshit Jain is building Devin, described as the world's first AI software engineer, at Cognition AI. (https://mokshitjain.co/)
- Mokshit Jain was one of the first 10 employees at Cognition, the company building the AI software developer Devin. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPcNSn1bnMA)
- Mokshit is credited (with Prem Nair, Dev Chheda, Jeffrey Ling, Jacob Teo, Ben Pan, Aidan Blum Levine and Egor Gagushin) on 'Windsurf Wave 12: Devin features in Windsurf' (2025-08-14), which brought DeepWiki and Devin capabilities into Windsurf, the IDE Cognition acquired in July 2025. (https://www.mazure.fr/links/windsurf.html)
- Mokshit Jain is on his second gap year in SF at Cognition and is still leaving for Caltech, which he will join in the fall. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPcNSn1bnMA)
- Mokshit Jain started at Cognition with no interview, no degree, and no MacBook. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPcNSn1bnMA)
- Scott Wu, CEO of Cognition AI, said Mokshit's contributions as an engineer on the team would have distinguished him among experienced developers. (https://mokshitjain.co/)
- Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown) sat down with Cognition to hear Mokshit Jain's whole story, with the full video at https://www.3blue1brown.com/talent/cognition/. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cognition-ai-labs_a-few-years-ago-an-intern-cold-dmd-us-asking-activity-7454983880778088448-y4aU, https://www.3blue1brown.com/talent/cognition/)
- Mokshit Jain joined Cognition remotely from India and, after a year of working remote, said it feels good to be in person. (https://x.com/Mokshit06/status/1955377782902624410)
- Mokshit Jain thanked Scott Wu, Extraordinary, Patrick Collison, Tanner Linsley, and Colin Hacks for making his Cognition opportunity possible. (https://x.com/Mokshit06/status/1955377782902624410)
- Mokshit Jain stated he is thrilled to be building the future of software engineering at Cognition. (https://x.com/Mokshit06/status/1955377782902624410)
- Mokshit Jain's work is visible to anyone who has used DeepWiki and Devin. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cognition-ai-labs_a-few-years-ago-an-intern-cold-dmd-us-asking-activity-7454983880778088448-y4aU)
- Mokshit Jain is a member of technical staff at Cognition and introduced himself as one of the engineers there. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPcNSn1bnMA)
- Mokshit Jain turned down IIT prep, Imperial, UCLA, and Caltech, having been ready to prepare for JEE Advanced and to study at Imperial College London or UCLA but not choosing that path. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPcNSn1bnMA)
- Alex Kaplan described Mokshit Jain as an individual engineer at Cognition whose greatness is remarkable. (https://x.com/alexkaplan0/status/2049242807739859117)
- Public headline says "Building Devin @ Cognition | Caltech". (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mokshit-jain-34318018a)
- Mokshit Jain had already applied to colleges once before and had gotten into Imperial and UCSD, but did not want to go to the UK because he wanted to be more in the startup scene. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFXrWGpCVnc)
- Mokshit Jain created Typewind, a zero-runtime TypeScript-powered library bringing type safety and autocompletion to Tailwind CSS, built using Babel, Typescript, SWC, and Rust. (https://mokshitjain.co/)
- Mokshit Jain created Macaron (macaron-css), a compiler-augmented typesafe CSS-in-JS library with a styled-components-like API but zero runtime, typesafety and colocation, using Babel, Typescript, Vite, and esbuild with adapters for React, Solid & Qwik. (https://mokshitjain.co/)
- Mokshit Jain did a full-time job at AI startup Cognition AI during his gap year and attributes getting the job to offbeat, open-ended exploration. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFXrWGpCVnc)
- Mokshit Jain thanked Extraordinary and @0xSigil for their help throughout. (https://x.com/Mokshit06/status/1955377782902624410)
- Mokshit Jain was a Frontend Engineer Intern at Replay.io from July 2023 to December 2023, shipping 14 features and bug fixes in the React & Redux Devtools including improving jump-to-code in the Stack Trace Panel. (https://mokshitjain.co/Resume.pdf)
- Hello, I'm Mokshit!

I like technology, compilers, cats and web performance.

I'm currently building Devin, the world's first AI software engineer, at Cognition AI.
Before this, I interned at Replay where I built collaborative debugging tools for React and Redux.

I also created Typewind and Macaron, and am a maintainer of Tanstack table, a headless library for building powerful data grids; this comes from the profile summary and preserves the person's own positioning. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mokshit-jain-34318018a)
- Mokshit Jain did not expect to get into Caltech and opened his Caltech decision at 11:00 p.m. while on a Zoom call with Raksha ma'am. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFXrWGpCVnc)
- Typewind compiles away all used styles into static classes at build time for zero bundle size, generates type definitions from the user's tailwind.config.js, and works with NextJS, SolidStart, and Vite. (https://typewind.dev/)
- Typewind reached almost 2k stars after 5 weeks and later 2.2k+ stars on GitHub, 500k+ views on docs, was featured in GitHub Trending Repositories, and got sponsored by Vercel. (https://mokshitjain.co/)
- Colin McDonnell, creator of Zod, said he will absolutely be using Typewind and gave hats off to Mokshit. (https://mokshitjain.co/)
- Macaron.js reached 700+ stars on GitHub and 75k+ installs on NPM. (https://mokshitjain.co/Resume.pdf)
- Mokshit Jain is a maintainer of TanStack Table, a headless library for building powerful datagrids. (https://mokshitjain.co/)
- At Replay.io, Mokshit Jain was mentored by Mark Erikson, the maintainer of Redux. (https://mokshitjain.co/Resume.pdf)
- Mokshit Jain found a niche area of computer science called optimization compilers through a Twitter post and reached out directly to the founders of companies in that area. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFXrWGpCVnc)
- Mokshit Jain is a winner of international hackathons including the NASA SpaceApps Challenge and HackTheNorth by the University of Waterloo. (https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/meet-the-wonder-kids-how-mokshit-jain-parth-ashish-won-the-apple-coding-challenge/articleshow/101251018.cms)
- Mokshit Jain was a Software Engineer at Bumi from July 2022 to November 2023, researching performance bottlenecks caused by CSS-in-JS libraries like Styled Components and Stitches. (https://mokshitjain.co/Resume.pdf)
- Education history includes Bachelor of Science - BS, Caltech. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mokshit-jain-34318018a)
- Mokshit Jain focuses on web performance and type safety, and lists compilers and web performance as interests. (https://github.com/mokshit06)
- Mokshit Jain was sponsored to work on Macaron and integrated it with Bumi's codebase. (https://mokshitjain.co/Resume.pdf)
- Mokshit Jain did research experience with FOLD on Geometric Folding Algos & Origami at MIT CSAIL, building a WebGL renderer and algorithms to transform 2D crease patterns to 3D states and vice-versa. (https://mokshitjain.co/Resume.pdf)
- Mokshit Jain built his Swift Student Challenge app on an iPad because he did not have a Mac, and it was his first app and marked his initiation into Swift. (https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/meet-the-wonder-kids-how-mokshit-jain-parth-ashish-won-the-apple-coding-challenge/articleshow/101251018.cms)
- Mokshit Jain was a VC Analyst Intern at Abstract Ventures from June 2023 to August 2023. (https://mokshitjain.co/Resume.pdf)
- As a WWDC 2023 Swift Student Challenge winner, Mokshit Jain received exclusive WWDC23 outerwear, AirPods Pro, a customised pin set, and a one-year membership in the Apple Developer Program. (https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/meet-the-wonder-kids-how-mokshit-jain-parth-ashish-won-the-apple-coding-challenge/articleshow/101251018.cms)
- Prior to WWDC, Mokshit Jain had only done frontend and backend development with Javascript, Rust and Python and had no prior experience with Swift. (https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/meet-the-wonder-kids-how-mokshit-jain-parth-ashish-won-the-apple-coding-challenge/articleshow/101251018.cms)
- Mokshit Jain was a WWDC'23 Scholar. (https://github.com/mokshit06)
- Mokshit Jain was a Google Code-in '19 Finalist. (https://github.com/mokshit06)
- Mokshit Jain was featured in The Economic Times for winning the Apple coding challenge. (https://mokshitjain.co/)
- Mokshit Jain's Google Code-in tasks included adding new content types to the Drupal CMS, linking content between blogging sites, and creating educational content and documentation websites for Drupal. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPcNSn1bnMA)
- Mokshit Jain first came into Athena in June or July, where Ashwin and Myra teamed up to decide which parts of his life to dig into during essay preparation. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFXrWGpCVnc)
- A YouTube Short titled "Meet Mokshit! Building Devin at Cognition since 17!!" was published by the channel Singh in USA on 2026-05-30, with 460 likes and 10K views, referencing a full podcast at https://youtu.be/TPcNSn1bnMA. (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9DK6RktGGiQ, https://youtu.be/TPcNSn1bnMA)
- Location is San Francisco, California, United States. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mokshit-jain-34318018a)
- Mokshit Jain's hands tremble a lot in public settings, a topic that became part of his essays. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFXrWGpCVnc)
- Mokshit Jain describes himself as liking technology, compilers, cats, origami and the web. (https://mokshitjain.co/)
- Mokshit Jain's personal website is mokshitjain.co, his X handle is @mokshit06, his GitHub username is Mokshit06, and his contact email is  (https://github.com/mokshit06)
- Mokshit Jain created sveltris, described as "Piece together any framework with Svelte (like Tetris)," with 190 stars and 6 forks. (https://github.com/mokshit06)
- Mokshit Jain described Athena in three words as 'more than you.' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFXrWGpCVnc)
- Mokshit Jain has 356 followers and is following 26 accounts on GitHub, with a GitHub status reading "hacking on something". (https://github.com/mokshit06)
- Mokshit Jain holds GitHub achievements including Pair Extraordinaire x4, Quickdraw, Pull Shark x3, Starstruck x3, Galaxy Brain, YOLO, and Arctic Code Vault Contributor. (https://github.com/mokshit06)
- Mokshit Jain is a member of the macaron-css GitHub organization. (https://github.com/mokshit06)
- Mokshit Jain created the archived premix repository, an SSR and SSG framework for react inspired by Remix and Next.js, with 16 stars. (https://github.com/mokshit06)
- Mokshit Jain created the js-runtime repository, an experimental JS and TS runtime using v8 written in Rust. (https://github.com/mokshit06)
- Mokshit Jain created the tw-variants repository, described as "Tailwind variant grouping without increasing CSS size". (https://github.com/Mokshit06?tab=repositories)
- Mokshit Jain created the shrinkr URL shortener using Node.js, MongoDB and Vue.js, the github-finder graphical GitHub profile viewer, the hover-chat messaging app using Node.js and Socket.io, and the task-manager-api Node.js API with MongoDB. (https://github.com/Mokshit06?tab=repositories)
- Mokshit Jain created repositories including civet-unplugin, js-cloudpickle, hackathon-hacker, hack24-iiitd, devin-minimal-repro-test, nextjs-million-img-repro, and rails-try-app. (https://github.com/Mokshit06?tab=repositories)
- Mokshit Jain forked repositories including codeday/www-event, codeday/web, edemaine/fold for the FOLD origami file format, DanielXMoore/Civet, replayio/devtools, bvaughn/react-resizable-panels, and oven-sh/bun. (https://github.com/Mokshit06?tab=repositories)

## Experience
- Member of Technical Staff at Cognition (May 2024 - Present): Building Devin, the world's first AI Software Engineer. Founding engineer

## Education
- Caltech - Bachelor of Science - BS: gap

## Sources
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/mokshit-jain-34318018a
- https://mokshitjain.co/
- https://github.com/mokshit06
- https://github.com/Mokshit06?tab=repositories
- https://mokshitjain.co/Resume.pdf
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPcNSn1bnMA
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9DK6RktGGiQ
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cognition-ai-labs_a-few-years-ago-an-intern-cold-dmd-us-asking-activity-7454983880778088448-y4aU
- https://x.com/cognition/status/2049240966109012018
- https://x.com/Mokshit06/status/1955377782902624410
- https://x.com/alexkaplan0/status/2049242807739859117
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFXrWGpCVnc
- https://typewind.dev/
- https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/meet-the-wonder-kids-how-mokshit-jain-parth-ashish-won-the-apple-coding-challenge/articleshow/101251018.cms
- https://www.mazure.fr/links/windsurf.html
- https://cognition.com/blog/swe-grep
- https://x.com/Mokshit06
- https://www.3blue1brown.com/talent/cognition/
- https://youtu.be/TPcNSn1bnMA


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