- Joined Cognition
- Jul 2025
- How they joined
- With Windsurf
- Before Windsurf
- NuroSoftware Engineer
- Status
- Current
“Dm me your resume and 1RM numbers”
- Joined Cognition in July 2025 after Cognition acquired Windsurf (formerly Codeium/Exafunction); his announcement, verbatim: "I’ve joined Cognition to continue to work on the future of software engineering. ... Really excited to see how we can take the best of Devin and Windsurf to make the world’s best IDE and coding agents."Jul 24, 2025
- Worked at Exafunction/Codeium/Windsurf from Nov 2021 to Jul 2025 as Software Engineer; LinkedIn post marked the rebrand: 'Excited to share Codeium is now Windsurf!'Apr 28, 2025Excited to share Codeium is now Windsurf!
- On Oct 24 2026 he replied 'Hope you like it! Pls send me your bugs' to a launch, and in Oct 2026 asked users what they would like 'to see Devin do'.Oct 24, 2026Hope you like it! Pls send me your bugs 👀
- Posted about Devin product work: 'One of the great things about Devin is that PRs are first class objects. Now that GitHub has PR stacks we’re excited to upgrade them!' (Jul 2026) and 'Devin computer use is undefeated' (Aug 2026).Jul 30, 2026One of the great things about Devin is that PRs are first class objects. Now that GitHub has PR stacks we’re excited to upgrade them! Incredible to see the team velocity on this one
- Acted as a GitHub maintainer of Codeium's open-source editor plugins as 'pqn': announced in Exafunction/codeium.nvim discussions that 'We adopted jcdickinson/codeium.nvim, and now it is Exafunction/codeium.nvim', and triaged issues across codeium.vim, codeium-chrome (JupyterLab 4 support) and CodeiumJetBrains.Oct 5, 2023
- Co-authored with Anshul Ramachandran the Codeium blog 'Using Code Syntax Parsing for Generative AI' (15 March 2023), about the tool Codeium built and open-sourced to query code syntax for AI context.Mar 15, 2023
- At Exafunction (pre-Codeium GPU inference infrastructure) he co-authored the AWS ML blog post on Exafunction supporting AWS Inferentia, credited as 'Prem Nair, Software Engineer, Exafunction'.Dec 2022
- Co-author of the CVPR 2020 bias-mitigation paper 'Towards Fairness in Visual Recognition: Effective Strategies for Bias Mitigation' with Zeyu Wang, Klint Qinami, Ioannis Karakozis, Kyle Genova, Kenji Hata and Olga Russakovsky.2020
- At Nuro (Jul 2018 - Oct 2021) he was a Software Engineer on Perception for the self-driving delivery vehicle; as 'prem-nuro' he engaged on google/s2geometry's Bazel support issue in Nov 2018.Nov 30, 2018
- Princeton BS Computer Science 2018; senior thesis in Olga Russakovsky's Princeton Visual AI Lab: 'An Exploration of Multi-class Multi-domain Image Classification'.2018
- Public headline says "Coding @ Cognition".
- Recommended Devin Fusion for model routing: 'IMO save yourself some trouble and use Devin Fusion instead.'Jun 29, 2026Some ideas for model routing for your harnesses! But IMO save yourself some trouble and use Devin Fusion instead.
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Phillip Y. Goldman ’86 Prize in Computer Science Accenture Prize in Computer Science George B. Wood Legacy Sophomore Prize Phi Beta Kappa Tau Beta Pi Sigma Xi
@Da7_Tech @PosaniRishi @dabit3 @DevinAI @cognition What do you like about the others you'd like to see Devin do
Hope you like it! Pls send me your bugs 👀
Vibe coding between sets is encouraged at the Cog gym
Whenever I get paged, Devin has root caused the issue and more often than not has a fix by the time I can fully open my eyes… we live in a blessed time
Let's go @maaslalani! Never leave the CLI again
crazy engineering from the team to get this https://t.co/zvlsLaTxeg
tfw you work with your friends every day https://t.co/hzAsGeEo9l
@chongz @0xtigs @cognition I’ll train anyone who comes to the office
It was a real pleasure to have gotten to work (and workout) alongside @moritz_stephan at Cognition. Excited to see him and the rest of the Hone team cook!
Devin computer use is undefeated https://t.co/OJoEgIWUkc
One of the great things about Devin is that PRs are first class objects. Now that GitHub has PR stacks we’re excited to upgrade them! Incredible to see the team velocity on this one
@EndorsiVal @cognition Dm me your resume and 1RM numbers
