- Joined Cognition
- Jul 2025
- How they joined
- With Windsurf
- Before Windsurf
- ImplySales Engineer
- Now
- OpenAI
“After an incredible run at Windsurf/Cognition, I’m excited to announce I have moved to the next chapter of my career and am joining OpenAI to help continue building the Codex Deployed Engineering team. … The way they lead their teams inspired me to grow as a leader, and I’ll carry those lessons with me for the rest of my career.”
- Announced leaving Windsurf/Cognition for OpenAI Codex Deployed Engineering. Verbatim: "After an incredible run at Windsurf/Cognition, I'm excited to announce I have moved to the next chapter of my career and am joining OpenAI to help continue building the Codex Deployed Engineering team." He credited Varun Mohan, Graham Moreno and Alex Laubscher "for taking a chance on me two years ago,".Apr 20, 2026After an incredible run at Windsurf/Cognition, I’m excited to announce I have moved to the next chapter of my career and am joining OpenAI to help continue building the Codex Deployed Engineering team. I can’t thank Varun Mohan, Graham Moreno, and Alex Laubscher enough for taking a chance on me two years ago. I’m also deeply thankful for the great leaders I had the chance to work with and learn from: Henry G., Arif Shenoy, Austin Mead, and Sebastian Cañizares. The way they lead their teams inspired me to grow as a leader, and I’ll carry those lessons with me for the rest of my career. I’m ex
- Windsurf (formerly Codeium) was acquired by Cognition in July 2025 per his own LinkedIn role description; he moved from building Mid-Market & Digital Native Deployed Engineering at Windsurf to building Enterprise Deployed Engineering at Cognition (Devin).Jul 2025
- Current role is Member of GTM Staff at OpenAI.
- Named leaders he learned from at Windsurf/Cognition: Henry G., Arif Shenoy, Austin Mead and Sebastian Canizares; at OpenAI he partners with Bonnie (Barnali) Chatterjee, Charlie Weems, Derrick Choi and the Codex DE team. Verbatim: "Windsurf/Cognition was a special place to learn, build, and grow."Apr 20, 2026After an incredible run at Windsurf/Cognition, I’m excited to announce I have moved to the next chapter of my career and am joining OpenAI to help continue building the Codex Deployed Engineering team. I can’t thank Varun Mohan, Graham Moreno, and Alex Laubscher enough for taking a chance on me two years ago. I’m also deeply thankful for the great leaders I had the chance to work with and learn from: Henry G., Arif Shenoy, Austin Mead, and Sebastian Cañizares. The way they lead their teams inspired me to grow as a leader, and I’ll carry those lessons with me for the rest of my career. I’m ex
- Posted the Cognition role change after the Windsurf acquisition. Verbatim: "I'm happy to share that I'm starting a new position as Team Lead, Deployed Engineering at Cognition!"Oct 3, 2025I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Team Lead, Deployed Engineering at Cognition!
- Reshared Cognition's funding announcement ("Funding, growth, and the next frontier of AI coding agents"). Verbatim: "Proud to work at a place hyper focused on the frontier of AI coding agents. An incredible achievement and a lot more to be done! Onwards"Sep 8, 2025Proud to work at a place hyper focused on the frontier of AI coding agents. An incredible achievement and a lot more to be done! Onwards
- Satwik Bebortha is thanked by name among the people the author is grateful to at Cognition.Oct 7, 2026
- Satwik Bebortha is mentioned as someone the author is reunited with at OpenAI. Verbatim: "It's also nice to be reunited with Satwik BeborthaSatwik Bebortha Emily FaraoneEmily Faraone Kaitlin GottfriedKaitlin Gottfried and Wade G. MorganWade G. Morgan :)"Aug 4, 2026
- Satwik Bebortha is listed among the people the author is thankful for, as part of Team Mavericks.Sep 9, 2025
- Satwik Bebortha visited the CarGurus office in Boston with the author to chat about MCP, RAG and recent updates to Windsurf.May 15, 2025
- Satwik Bebortha is listed among the 'Also among the top 10 worldwide' honorees for West & APAC Q1, alongside Alex Garwood, MBA, CF-L2 and Anisa Edalati & Abhay A.May 6, 2025
- Satwik Bebortha is a DE (Distinguished/Development Engineer) recognized for incredible performances in the company's largest deals.May 1, 2025
Building Applied Engineering @ Codex
Building Enterprise Deployed Engineering @ Cognition
Acquired by Cognition July 2025 Building Mid-Market & Digital Native Deployed Engineering @ Windsurf
4th hire on Deployed Engineering team supporting primarily Mid Market and Digital Native accounts
Awesome opportunity for someone who loves going deep technically and building alongside customers with Codex. And you get to work with Neeraj Jaisinghani! Love seeing this team grow, definitely worth a look.
Working with Shikhar Kwatra has been one of my favorite parts of working at OpenAI! I would highly recommend anyone passionate about working with Partners and Deployed Engineering to apply!
After an incredible run at Windsurf/Cognition, I’m excited to announce I have moved to the next chapter of my career and am joining OpenAI to help continue building the Codex Deployed Engineering team. I can’t thank Varun Mohan, Graham Moreno, and Alex Laubscher enough for taking a chance on me two years ago. I’m also deeply thankful for the great leaders I had the chance to work with and learn from: Henry G., Arif Shenoy, Austin Mead, and Sebastian Cañizares. The way they lead their teams inspired me to grow as a leader, and I’ll carry those lessons with me for the rest of my career. I’m ex
I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Team Lead, Deployed Engineering at Cognition!
Proud to work at a place hyper focused on the frontier of AI coding agents. An incredible achievement and a lot more to be done! Onwards
Incredibly surreal watching NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang mention Codeium during his CES keynote on Tuesday. As Jensen mentions, millions of developers will have an AI coding assistant helping them code and be more productive, and we are excited to be a part of this journey. The Deployed Engineering team at Codeium is looking to hire interns for Summer 2025. This is a great role for anyone who's passionate about Artificial Intelligence and Coding Assistants/Agents. We're looking for students who are looking to work in the intersection of engineering and sales, and want real world experience workin
Introducing Windsurf by Codeium. Windsurf has a variety of modalities including Smart Supercomplete, Command, and Cascade. Cascade is a next generation multi step processing engine designed to execute complex workflows with natural language. Now, anyone can build webpages, frameworks and much more. With Cascade, I was able to take an Open Source issue from #Apache #Druid https://lnkd.in/gAvf9eRe and was able to create a PR for it within 20 minutes.: https://lnkd.in/gWvbRMVT Its incredibly exciting to witness the creation of the next generation of development and cant wait for those in
Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen have built an incredible company and a product people love. Proud to be a part of the team and cant wait for the journey ahead
Series C and we are just getting started. https://lnkd.in/gpAXddim We are hiring for multiple roles across Sales, Marketing, and Engineering please feel free to DM me for more info!
Having recently joined Codeium, I've been thoroughly impressed by the exceptional talent, determination, and expertise demonstrated by our team. Every member is deeply committed to our overarching mission: to give every developer the leverage to do work bigger, better, and faster than before. We've made significant strides towards this goal with the recent launch of two groundbreaking products: Cortex, a breakthrough in AI reasoning, and Forge, an AI-powered code review assistant. For a comprehensive overview of our recent advancements, I invite you to visit our blog: https://lnkd.in/gMrJUX
