# Saransh Saini

Software engineer at Google DeepMind; ex-Codeium/Windsurf (through Cognition acquisition), ex-founding engineer at Juicebox  
Google DeepMind  
San Francisco Bay Area

## At Cognition

- Role: Former Engineer (Engineering)
- Joined: Aug 2024
- How they joined: With Windsurf (https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/acquisitions/windsurf)
- Before Windsurf: Software Engineer, Juicebox (YC S22)
- Now: Google DeepMind (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thesaranshsaini)
- Overlapped before Cognition with other Cognition people at: Codeium (Windsurf); Amazon; UC Berkeley (https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/worked-together)

## Identity
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thesaranshsaini
- GitHub: https://github.com/saranshsaini
- Domain: deepmind.google

## Notes
- Moved from Windsurf to Google DeepMind as a Software Engineer in Oct 2025. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thesaranshsaini)
- Joined Codeium (later rebranded Windsurf) as a Software Engineer in Aug 2024 and stayed through Oct 2025, spanning the July 2025 split in which Google DeepMind hired Windsurf's CEO and research leaders and Cognition acquired the remaining company, product and team; he therefore worked roughly three months as a Windsurf engineer under Cognition ownership. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thesaranshsaini)
- Cognition signed a definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf (the agentic IDE), including its IP, product, trademark, brand and remaining team, days after Google's ~$2.4B license-and-hire deal for CEO Varun Mohan and co-founder Douglas Chen. (https://cognition.com/blog/windsurf)
- GitHub account saranshsaini (created Jun 2020, 27 public repos) has a 'codeium.nvim-setup' repo (Nov 2024, 'A minimal Lazy setup to get codeium.nvim running') and a 'vsix-test' repo (Dec 2024). (https://github.com/saranshsaini?tab=repositories)
- Was a founding software engineer at Juicebox (YC S22) Jan-Jul 2024, building PeopleGPT, the AI people-search product created by co-founders David Paffenholz and Ishan Gupta. (https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/juicebox)
- Public headline says "Software Engineer at Google DeepMind". (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thesaranshsaini)
- Amazon Software Development Intern (Jun-Aug 2023, Seattle) on the Amazon Fashion product recommendations team, working with Spark. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thesaranshsaini)
- Built RustyVault, a terminal password vault in Rust, with its own Homebrew tap (homebrew-rustyvault), in Dec 2022-Jan 2023. (https://github.com/saranshsaini/RustyVault)
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Software Engineer Intern (Jan-May 2022), working on an internal version control system and modernizing out-of-date applications. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thesaranshsaini)
- Machine Learning Engineer at UC Berkeley's Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute (Sep-Dec 2021), modeling vocalization patterns of the Egyptian fruit bat. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thesaranshsaini)
- Two stints at Quiver Quantitative (Oct-Dec 2020 and Jan-May 2023) adding alternative financial datasets and building early versions of its data pipeline. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thesaranshsaini)
- Listed as a developer of IEEE Berkeley's 'sketchy', an Among-Us-style multiplayer drawing game, with teammates Allison Jung, Arthur Deng, Jessie Hong, Isabella Borkovic, Barnett Yang, Roy Huang, Arda Demirci and Vivian Hsu (advisors Wilson Nguyen, John Lee, Maanuj Vora). (https://github.com/IEEEBerkeley/sketchy)
- Forked anthropic-go, a Go SDK for Claude (Oct 2024), and worked through Sebastian Raschka's LLMs-from-scratch book in a June 2024 repo, showing a hands-on LLM learning track during the Juicebox-to-Codeium transition. (https://github.com/saranshsaini?tab=repositories)
- Capital One Software Engineer Intern in San Francisco (Jun-Aug 2022), building internal apps on AWS. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thesaranshsaini)
- Previous roles include Software Engineer at Windsurf; Software Engineer at Juicebox (YC S22); Software Development Intern at Amazon; Software Engineer Intern at Quiver Quantitative; Software Engineer Intern at Capital One; Software Engineer Intern at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Machine Learning Engineer at Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at UC Berkeley; Computer Science Mentor at Computer Science Mentors. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thesaranshsaini)
- Computer Science Mentors section leader at Berkeley (Fall 2021), teaching recursion, Scheme, Python, OOP and SQL in small groups. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thesaranshsaini)
- Earlier side projects include PlayToLearn (a sheet-music reading app, 2 stars), Neural-Nets-for-the-Web, IdentityBot (Reddit personality analysis with IBM AI), a MERN places-sharing app and TelegramCryptoBots. (https://github.com/saranshsaini?tab=repositories)
- Projects Developer at The Daily Californian (Fall 2020), modeling UC Berkeley and City of Berkeley data and writing data articles. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thesaranshsaini)
- Location is San Francisco Bay Area. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thesaranshsaini)

## Experience
- Software Engineer at Google DeepMind (Oct 2025 - Present)
- Software Engineer at Windsurf (Aug 2024 - Oct 2025)
- Software Engineer at Juicebox (YC S22) - San Francisco, California, United States (Jan 2024 - Jul 2024): Founding Software Engineer at Juicebox, building PeopleGPT
- Software Development Intern at Amazon - Seattle, Washington, United States (Jun 2023 - Aug 2023): Worked with Spark in the Amazon Fashion product recommendations team
- Software Engineer Intern at Quiver Quantitative (Jan 2023 - May 2023): More data pipeline work
- Software Engineer Intern at Capital One - San Francisco, CA (Jun 2022 - Aug 2022): Used a lot of AWS to make internal apps
- Software Engineer Intern at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Jan 2022 - May 2022): Worked on an internal version control system and updated a lot of out-dated applications
- Machine Learning Engineer at Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at UC Berkeley - Berkeley, CA (Sep 2021 - Dec 2021): Understanding the nuances and meaning behind vocalization patterns in the Egyptian fruit bat.
- Computer Science Mentor at Computer Science Mentors - Berkeley, California, United States (Sep 2021 - Dec 2021): Lead small group sections, teaching students about recursion, scheme, python, object-oriented design, SQL, and programming paradigms.
- Software Engineer Intern at Quiver Quantitative (Oct 2020 - Dec 2020): Added to alternative financial data datasets
Helped build out early versions of the data pipeline.
- Projects Developer at The Daily Californian (Sep 2020 - Dec 2020): •Use python and analysis software to model data taken from UC Berkeley and The City of Berkeley
•Present data in a user friendly forms by collaborating with designers
•Write articles for the Daily Cal to present the data and models created

## Education
- University of California, Berkeley - Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science - (Jan 2020 - Dec 2023)

## Sources
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/thesaranshsaini
- https://github.com/saranshsaini
- https://api.github.com/users/saranshsaini/repos?per_page=100&sort=updated
- https://github.com/IEEEBerkeley/sketchy
- https://cognition.com/blog/windsurf
- https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/cognition-maker-of-the-ai-coding-agent-devin-acquires-windsurf/
- https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/11/google-windsurf-ceo-varun-mohan-latest-ai-talent-deal-.html
- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/juicebox
- https://nj.milesplit.com/athletes/6492999-saransh-saini/progression
- https://github.com/saranshsaini?tab=repositories
- https://github.com/saranshsaini/RustyVault


Researched with Autumn (https://www.autumn.ai) from public sources. Updated 2026-11-04. Profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/saransh-saini · Everyone at Cognition: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people