- Joined
- Jul 2026
- How they joined
- Directly
- Before Cognition
- GleanFounding Engineer / Manager
- Status
- Current
“Why Cognition: extremely well thought-out end-to-end product, model-independent, obsessed with customers’ ROI instead of tokenmaxxing, and a cracked team moving at breakneck speed.”
- Public headline says "Building @ Cognition".
- Previous roles include Founding Engineer / Manager at Glean; Research Engineer at Meta.
- Education history includes Master’s Degree, MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
- Location is San Francisco, California, United States.
- Joined when the company could fit on one lunch table. Now $7B+ - Started the Glean Assistant's Quality team — we combined search with LLMs via RAG/Agents to power a ChatGPT-like experience but across your company's GDrive / Slack / Jira etc. - Helped build numerous NLP systems from scratch in the enterprise context — lexical + vector search with personalization at company, function and employee levels. - Wore many hats across early engineering, product & technical marketing. Helped grow the AI team to 10+ people. Published 8 patents.
- Tech lead for semantic parsing models – algorithms, infra, data flywheels, and on-device inference – deployed on Quest, Portal, and later on AI glasses. - Led development of a COVID-19 WhatsApp chatbot in collaboration with the WHO, which serviced 14m users in 20 languages, responding to 165m questions. - Co-created the open-source library PyText, which internally powered billions of daily pre- dictions across Ads & Translation. - Published 5 papers, and gave talks at NeurIPS and EMNLP.
advised by Ramesh Raskar. - Thesis on AI-based breast cancer screening, piloted in understaffed Indian hospitals. - Helped the Kumbh Mela in India (30m pilgrims in a city designed for 3m) by building crowd monitoring and management systems. - Fully funded by Tata Trusts. - Internship: Meta Computational Photography - with Rick Szeliski
- Thesis on Feature-less SLAM for autonomous drone navigation. - Repped India at the FIRA Robot Soccer World Cup ’13. - Helped run the robotics club - taught students and organized inter-university competitions. - Internships: Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute & Ecole Polytechnique Paris
I joined just 2 months ago, and it's incredible to see how the company is moving and growing so, so fast, while still being so, so early.
I've joined Cognition! Why Cognition: extremely well thought-out end-to-end product, model-independent, obsessed with customers’ ROI instead of tokenmaxxing, and a cracked team moving at breakneck speed. At Glean, I helped people get knowledge work done faster. Now doing the same for software engineering.
I've joined @cognition! Why Cognition: extremely well thought-out end-to-end product, model-independent, obsessed with customers’ ROI instead of tokenmaxxing, and a cracked team moving at breakneck speed. At Glean, I helped people get knowledge work done faster. Now doing the same for software engineering.
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