Numair Baseer: Deployed Engineering Leader, HLS at Cognition

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LocationSan Francisco, California, United States

UniversityUCLA

PythonJavaScriptC++HTMLSQLPHPWeb Applications

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Presented 'Platform Overview: Devin Cloud, Desktop & CLI' at Cognition's 'What's New in Devin' event on June 24, 2026, following Matt Bergland's intro.Jun 24, 2026
Joined Codeium (later rebranded Windsurf) as a Deployed Engineer in 2024-11, promoted to Lead Deployed Engineer in 2025-07, the same month Cognition acquired Windsurf; LinkedIn lists the Lead role under both Windsurf and Cognition (2025-07 to 2026-01).Jul 2025
Cognition colleague Matt Bergland promoted the Devin session: 'Join Numair Baseer and I as we take you through what's new in Devin'.Jun 17, 2026
Ran the 2-hour workshop 'Agentic Coding with Windsurf' at AI Engineer World's Fair 2025 in San Francisco (Tue 3 Jun, 15:30-17:30, Golden Gate Ballroom workshops), on delegating execution to AI while focusing on architecture and high-leverage thinking.Jun 3, 2025
Led two Windsurf talks at ODSC East in Boston (May 13-15, 2025): 'Beyond Productivity: Imagining Your Innovation Pipeline in the AI Era' and 'Agentic Coding with Windsurf'.May 13, 2025
Windsurf's ODSC East event page called him 'one of the key members of our deployed engineering team'.May 2025
Evan Oman on X after the AI Engineer World's Fair workshop: 'I attended a fantastic @windsurf_ai workshop with Numair Baseer'; the session covered Windsurf workflows, PRD-driven prompting, and Puppeteer and Supabase MCP.Jun 8, 2025
ODSC promoted his Expo Hall session on building a RAG-powered chatbot using Windsurf's agentic IDE.Apr 25, 2025
Earlier, as 'Deployed Engineer at Codeium', he was billed by ODSC for the talk 'Building a RAG Chatbot with Codeium's Windsurf'.2024
Holds a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science from UCLA; GitHub bio reads "UCLA '19", implying a 2019 graduation.2019
Joined the first official Windsurf Istanbul Meetup live as 'Deployed Engineer at Windsurf'.Jun 19, 2025
Windsurf event page: 'Engineer Numair Baseer leads a session on coding strategy in the age of agents.'Jun 2025