- Joined
- Jul 2026
- How they joined
- Directly
- Before Cognition
- SkioFounding Engineer
- Status
- Current
Overlapped before Cognition
Sources1linkedin.com
Details
C#PythonPostgreSQLMicrosoft SQL Server.NET FrameworkReactTypeScriptJavaJavaScriptScalamath tournamentspuzzlescats
Notes
- Joined Cognition as Member of Technical Staff in July 2026, right after Skio's April 2026 sale to Recharge.Jul 2026
- Self-describes on his personal site as 'a human software engineer at Cognition AI', founder of Substructure Inc. (runs Atomic Grader), previously founding engineer at Skio (acquired by Recharge), growth/infrastructure engineer at Thumbtack and email infrastructure engineer at Zazzle.2026
- Recharge acquired Skio (YC S20 subscriptions platform for Shopify brands) on April 30, 2026 for a reported $105M in cash; Nathan was a founding engineer there from Jan 2023 to Jul 2026.Apr 30, 2026
- Skio team page lists him as Founding Engineer, 'Previously: Thumbtack (Growth, Infrastructure), Zazzle, Berkeley.'2025
- Cognition acquired Windsurf (IP, product, trademark, brand and team) in July 2025, the product line now called Devin Desktop; Nathan joined a year later.Jul 2025
- Public headline says "Cognition".
- Atomic Grader ([Ag]) splits exam answer sheets into atomic answer components for remote, parallel grading; built by UC Berkeley and Stanford students/alumni originally to run math tournaments.
- Recent own repos include toraora/kube-config (pushed 2026-11-03), sfbanorcalarml.org (SF Bay / NorCal ARML team site, 2026-10), tora.dev (Astro, 2026-08), amc and sluice (TypeScript, 2026-04), aoc-2024 (Rust), mathtournamentcalendar.com, backup-retention (Go, S3 backup retention policies) and powerline-bart (BART train Powerline segment).Nov 2026
- GitHub account toraora (created 2013) lists company @usacognition and membership in @lemniscate-education; 42 public repos, mostly personal tooling and forks.2026
- Nathan Wong is identified as a BMT organizer and is quoted about the Power Round: 'We hope to introduce new ways of mathematical thinking and problem solving to BMT participants' and 'We have a great opportunity in the Power Round to showcase mathematical rigor in niche or unexpected places.'Nov 9, 2024
- The Berkeley Math Tournament (BMT) took place at the University of California, Berkeley on Nov. 2, with 1,000 students from across the nation competing.Nov 2, 2024
- Co-authored MIT Mystery Hunt 2023 puzzles 'Cute Cats' (with Moor Xu) and a 4D Geo puzzle with Austin Lei, Evan Chen and Moor Xu as part of the writing team.Jan 2023
Previous roleSkio
Experience
Member of Technical Staff at Cognition
Jul 2026 - Present
Founding Engineer at Skio
Jan 2023 - Jul 2026
San Francisco Bay Area
acquired by Recharge
Software Engineer at Thumbtack
May 2018 - Dec 2022
San Francisco Bay Area
Software Engineer at Zazzle
May 2016 - May 2018
San Francisco Bay Area
Software Engineering Intern at Zazzle
May 2015 - Aug 2015
San Francisco Bay Area
Intern at Renewable Energy Test Center
Jan 2012 - Jan 2014
Fremont, CA
Automated document processing, inventory management, data logging for compliance. Worked both with hardware (Propeller MCU, BeagleBone) and software (PHP, SQL, LaTeX, Python).
Education
University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2013 - Jan 2016
Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science
Projects
Atomic Grader ([Ag]) - exam grading platform run by Substructure Inc.
mathtournamentcalendar.com
sfbanorcalarml.org (SF Bay/NorCal ARML site)
tora.dev personal site (Astro)
backup-retention (Go)
powerline-bart
VolunteeringBerkeley Math Tournament organizer (Power Round) · Atomic Grader maintainer for Stanford Math Tournament 2018 · MIT Mystery Hunt 2023 puzzle author · Teammate Hunt 2020 web/infra and testsolver
Profiles
Code
Repos42
Repos
Toraora/kube-configToraora/sfbanorcalarml.orgToraora/tora.devToraora/amcToraora/sluiceToraora/test-branch-protectionToraora/aoc-2024Toraora/custom-headers-nextjsToraora/carbonToraora/mathtournamentcalendar.comToraora/testingToraora/js-global-test
