- Joined
- May 2026
- How they joined
- Directly
- Before Cognition
- Cash AppSenior Software Engineer
- Status
- Current
- Joined Cognition (maker of Devin and, since its 2025 Windsurf acquisition, the Windsurf IDE) as an Applied AI Engineer in May 2026, after almost six years in the Square/Cash App part of Block.May 2026
- Current role is Applied AI Engineer at Cognition.
- On 2026-04-21, Cash App engineer Joshua Swigut thanked Vibha Seshadri by name in his post on the Cash App Families launch ('Huge win and incredible effort by the team. Couldn't have done it without ... Vibha Seshadri ...'). This is about a month before she left for Cognition.Apr 21, 2026
- Cognition's public Applied AI Engineer posting says the role is to embed with enterprise engineering teams to drive deep, lasting adoption of Devin.2026
- Senior Software Engineer at Cash App from June 2022 to May 2026. Her LinkedIn lists the team as 'Cash Families', the product for teen and kid accounts.Jun 2022
- Cognition's team page says the founding team has 10 IOI gold medals. No olympiad, ICPC or USACO training-camp record was found for Vibha herself.2026
- Software Engineer at Square from August 2020 to June 2022 on the Payment Products and International Onboarding teams. This was her first full-time job after Berkeley.Aug 2020
- Her early identity-verification work for Airbnb lines up with her later work on International Onboarding at Square. Identity and KYC-style onboarding is a thread that runs through her pre-Cognition career.2019
- Public headline says "Applied AI @ Cognition".
- Teammates on the Cash App Families launch post included Jennifer Chen, Scott Schmitz, Nicholas Crowder, Regina Arcilla, Daniel P., Andrew Ding, Kasia Bedkowski, Bradford Lage, Luke Bradford, Kai Lu, Ross Beranek and Brad Wrage.Apr 21, 2026
- Cognition announced it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf (formerly Codeium) in July 2025. Windsurf, now Devin Desktop/Windsurf, is part of the product surface Applied AI engineers support.Jul 2025
- B.A. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley (2016-2020). Activities included Upsilon Pi Epsilon, Society of Women Engineers, Student Ambassadors for the Arts and Project RISHI.2020
Cash Families
Payment Products International Onboarding
Advised Quokka Brew consulting team as they built Mobile app
Led discussion sections, labs, & office hours Developed teaching materials Graded and proctored exams
Led 8 PMs in the client acquisition process for Fall ‘19 semester; clients were Paypal, Tinder, Jumpstart, and Keysight Technologies Oversee all project teams and maintain client relations
Engineered a high-performance time series data pipeline using C++, Python (Pandas), and Apache Cassandra, with Java-based Spark and Solr integrations for scalable aggregation and optimized reads. Tools: Apache Maven, JUnit, Pytest, SolrJ, DataStax.
Led a team of 6 consultants in scoping two universal identity verification solutions for hosts on the Airbnb platform Sponsored by Airbnb Identity team to attend the KNOW 2019 conference
DiversaTech, Computer Science Mentors, Upsilon Pi Epsilon, Student Ambassadors for the Arts, Society of Women Engineers, Project RISHI,
