- Joined Cognition
- Jul 2025
- How they joined
- With Windsurf
- Before Windsurf
- PineconeSolutions Engineer
- Status
- Current
Overlapped before Cognition
“One year later and working at Cognition is still exhilarating!”
Details
LocationSan Francisco, California, United States
Company sitecognition.ai
UniversityUC Berkeley College of Engineering
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Notes
- On 2026-07-14, marking one year at Cognition, she posted verbatim: "One year later and working at Cognition is still exhilarating!" - the first-anniversary timing lines up with the July 2025 Windsurf acquisition.Jul 14, 2026One year later and working at Cognition is still exhilarating!
- Joined Codeium (maker of the Windsurf AI IDE) in November 2024 as a Deployed Engineer; the LinkedIn role entry is annotated 'Acquired by Cognition', and she moved to Cognition in July 2025 when Cognition acquired Windsurf, which is how she arrived at Cognition.Nov 2024
- As Data Scientist II at Blue River (2021-2022) she 'defined and managed training and test set SLA, curated datasets, and presented summary to C-level executives', work that 'culminated in the approval and reveal of John Deere's autonomous tractor at CES 2022'.Jan 2022
- Current role is Deployed Engineer at Cognition.
- Co-presented the GenAI Gurus expert talk 'Beyond Code Completion: Windsurf and Human+Agent Software Development' (published 2025-05-09, 1h02m) with Windsurf GTM lead Rudy Garza; the talk bio says she 'connects enterprise clients with Windsurf's AI-native IDE and coding assistant tools'.May 9, 2025
- Modev announced her on 2025-03-19 as 'Strategic Engineer at Codeium' and speaker at GENERATE in Arlington, VA, leading a workshop on 'the technical foundations of integrating AI-assisted coding tools into your IDE'.Mar 19, 2025
- On 2025-02-03 she posted verbatim: "Codeium is at HPE Tech Jam Vienna! Visit booth 21 to discover how our AI-powered developer tools are revolutionizing developer productivity. Experience firsthand the future of accelerated development with live demos and discussions!".Feb 3, 2025
- On 2025-01-06 she posted verbatim: "New Year, New IDE, New You! What's a better way to start my morning commute than seeing Windsurf all over the Caltrain station? If you code, you should try it, and if you don't code, you should also try it-it's that good."Jan 6, 2025
- Spent 4.5 years (Oct 2019-May 2024) at Blue River Technology, the John Deere-owned agricultural robotics company, rising from Data Analyst to Data Scientist I, Data Scientist II and Data Engineer II.Oct 2019
- Her Windsurf talk bio describes 'a background in both machine learning engineering and computer science instruction', calls her 'a native Californian currently based in San Francisco', and says she holds 'a B.S. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley'.May 9, 2025
- Before Codeium she was a Solutions Engineer at Pinecone (vector database) from May to Nov 2024, a customer-facing technical role that previews the Deployed Engineer job she took next.May 2024
- As Data Engineer II at Blue River (2022-2024) she 'designed, built, and maintained the pipelines that transformed autonomous tractor data at scale to support analytics throughout the company'.Feb 2022
Experience
Deployed Engineer at Cognition
Jul 2025 - Present
Deployed Engineer at Windsurf
Nov 2024 - Jul 2025
Acquired by Cognition
Solutions Engineer at Pinecone
May 2024 - Nov 2024
Data Engineer II at Blue River Technology
Feb 2022 - May 2024
Designed, built, and maintained the pipelines that transformed autonomous tractor data at scale to support analytics throughout the company.
Data Scientist II at Blue River Technology
Mar 2021 - Feb 2022
Defined and managed training and test set SLA, curated datasets, and presented summary to C-level executives. Culminated in the approval and reveal of John Deere’s autonomous tractor at CES 2022.
Data Scientist I at Blue River Technology
Feb 2020 - Feb 2021
Data Analyst at Blue River Technology
Oct 2019 - Jan 2020
Customer Support Engineer at Merge Mobile, Inc.
Jan 2018 - Oct 2019
Education
UC Berkeley College of Engineering
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineer and Computer Science
Hispanic Engineers Society, Society of Women Engineers, Regents’ and Chancellor’s Scholar, Bill & Melinda Gates Scholar
Projects
Deploying Devin and Windsurf to enterprise customers at Cognition
Codeium/Windsurf enterprise deployments and event demos (HPE Tech Jam Vienna)
Autonomous tractor training/test dataset SLA (Blue River)
Autonomous tractor data pipelines (Blue River)
AchievementsGates Millennium Scholar (2014) · Dell Scholar (2014) · Full-ride scholarship to UC Berkeley · Dataset work supporting John Deere autonomous tractor reveal at CES 2022
Recent posts
July 2026
One year later and working at Cognition is still exhilarating!
Speaking
AI-assisted Coding Tools In The IDEHuman+agent Software DevelopmentEnterprise Adoption Of Agentic Coding
AwardsRegents' and Chancellor's Scholar (UC Berkeley) · Bill & Melinda Gates Scholar
Profiles
