- Joined Cognition
- 2026
- How they joined
- With Consul
- Before Consul
- ConvexSoftware Engineer
- Status
- Current
Details
LocationNew York, New York, United States
Company sitecognition.ai
LanguagesBengali, English, French
UniversityUniversity of Waterloo
Go (Programming Language)Rust (Programming Language)C++C (Programming Language)Python (Programming Language)
Notes
- LinkedIn lists Co-Founder at Consul (YC W24), 2024-2026, with the description "Acquired by Cognition"; he then joined Cognition as Member of Technical Staff in 2026 (San Francisco Bay Area), so the move into Cognition came via the Consul acquisition.2026
- X bio states, verbatim: "Founder of Consul, acquired by Cognition | prev @UWaterloo CS, @ycombinator W24" and opens with "Probably approximately correct", a nod to PAC learning theory.Nov 2026
- At Convex (2023-2024) he worked on "Databases, serverless runtimes, observability, full-text search, vector search, and DX"; Convex recruiter Bryan Liu announced his joining in June 2023, right after his Waterloo graduation.Jun 6, 2023
- Research assistant to Dr. Vijay Ganesh at Waterloo (Jan-May 2021) on ML initialization heuristics for SAT solvers and convex approximations of NP-hard problems as differentiable optimization layers in DNNs.Jan 2021
- Visiting graduate student at the Simons Institute (Berkeley) for the Spring 2021 program "Satisfiability: Theory, Practice, and Beyond", advised by Vijay Ganesh.2021
- Public headline says "Member of Technical Staff at Cognition".
- Reposted Cognition's Oct 2026 launch of Devin Security ("We are entering a new dark age of cybersecurity. Devin is here to help.").Oct 27, 2026
- Tweeted "Parsing and understanding codebases is a remarkably underrated skill" in Jan 2023, years before joining an AI coding-agent company.Jan 6, 2023Parsing and understanding codebases is a remarkably underrated skill
- Snap Inc. internships: Ads Delivery Core Infra team (May-Aug 2021, LA) and Storage infrastructure (May-Aug 2022, SF Bay Area).May 2021
- Tesla Autopilot intern, Sep-Dec 2020, Palo Alto.Sep 2020
- Earliest role: software engineer at Twenty Billion Neurons (later acquired by Qualcomm), Jun 2019-Jan 2020, Greater Toronto Area.Jun 2019
- Previous roles include Co-Founder at Consul (YC W24); Software Engineer at Convex; Software Engineer at Snap Inc.; Software Engineer at Finary (YC W21); Research Assistant at University of Waterloo; Intern at Tesla; Software Engineer at Twenty Billion Neurons (acquired by Qualcomm).
Experience
Member of Technical Staff at Cognition
Jan 2026 - Present
San Francisco Bay Area
Co-Founder at Consul (YC W24)
Jan 2024 - Jan 2026
New York, New York, United States
Acquired by Cognition
Software Engineer at Convex
Jan 2023 - Jan 2024
San Francisco Bay Area
Databases, serverless runtimes, observability, full-text search, vector search, and DX
Software Engineer at Snap Inc.
May 2022 - Aug 2022
San Francisco Bay Area
Storage infrastructure
Software Engineer at Snap Inc.
May 2021 - Aug 2021
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
Ads Delivery Core Infra team
Research Assistant at University of Waterloo
Jan 2021 - May 2021
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Working with Dr. Vijay Ganesh on: 1) Machine learning initialization heuristics for SAT solvers 2) Formulating convex approximations of NP-hard problems (Ex. SAT, Knapsack) as differentiable optimization layers in DNNs Visiting student at Simon's Institute
Intern at Tesla
Sep 2020 - Dec 2020
Palo Alto, California, United States
Autopilot
Software Engineer at Twenty Billion Neurons (acquired by Qualcomm)
Jun 2019 - Jan 2020
Greater Toronto Area, Canada
Education
University of Waterloo
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Summer Courses @ LaunchX
Prod
Cohort 3.0
Recent posts
October 2026
@jkelleyrtp @dioxuslabs @cognition 👀 👀
January 2023
Parsing and understanding codebases is a remarkably underrated skill
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Code
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