# Vibha Seshadri

Applied AI Engineer at Cognition (Devin/Windsurf); ex-Cash App Families and Square engineer; UC Berkeley CS  
Cognition  
New York, New York, United States

## At Cognition

- Role: Applied AI Engineer (Engineering)
- Joined: May 2026
- How they joined: Directly
- Before Cognition: Senior Software Engineer, Cash App
- Overlapped before Cognition with other Cognition people at: UC Berkeley (https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/worked-together)

## Identity
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vibha-seshadri
- Domain: cognition.ai

## Notes
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/vibha-seshadri)
- Current role is Applied AI Engineer at Cognition. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/vibha-seshadri)
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/joshua-swigut-a91014158_cash-app-helps-families-build-healthy-financial-activity-7452370833068572672-zbEC)
- Cognition's public Applied AI Engineer posting says the role is to embed with enterprise engineering teams to drive deep, lasting adoption of Devin. (https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cognition/811c3f5a-b26d-4162-b49b-93890a91794d)
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/vibha-seshadri)
- 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. (https://cognition.com/team-spotlights)
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/vibha-seshadri)
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/vibha-seshadri)
- Public headline says "Applied AI @ Cognition". (https://www.linkedin.com/in/vibha-seshadri)
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/joshua-swigut-a91014158_cash-app-helps-families-build-healthy-financial-activity-7452370833068572672-zbEC)
- 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. (https://cognition.com/blog/windsurf)
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/vibha-seshadri)
- Software Engineering Intern at Bloomberg LP in summer 2019. She built a time-series data pipeline in C++, Python (Pandas) and Apache Cassandra, with Java-based Spark and Solr integrations. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/vibha-seshadri)
- Undergraduate GSI (uGSI) for UC Berkeley's CS61B Data Structures from 2019 to 2020. She led discussions, labs and office hours, wrote teaching materials, and graded and proctored exams. Before that she was a CS61B staff tutor in fall 2018. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/vibha-seshadri)
- At DiversaTech Consulting (Berkeley) she was a Technology Solutions Consultant and then PM for the Airbnb consulting team, leading 6 consultants to scope identity-verification solutions for Airbnb hosts. Airbnb's Identity team sponsored her to attend KNOW 2019. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/vibha-seshadri)
- As DiversaTech VP of Projects in 2019, she led 8 PMs in client acquisition, with clients including PayPal, Tinder, Jumpstart and Keysight Technologies. In 2020 she was a Senior Advisor to the Quokka Brew team. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/vibha-seshadri)
- Listed on the CS61B Spring 2019 staff page as a third-year computer science major from the Bay Area, alongside staff such as Vivian Fang. (https://sp19.datastructur.es/staff.html)
- Senior Mentor at Computer Science Mentors from 2018 to 2019. She led mentorship and curriculum for Berkeley's 1,400+ student Data Structures community, including guides on Git internals, OOP and Java. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/vibha-seshadri)
- Software Engineering Intern at GE in summer 2018. She automated cloud and networking infrastructure deployment with Terraform and Ansible, turning 15+ manual processes into code. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/vibha-seshadri)
- Previous roles include Applied AI Engineer at Cognition; Senior Software Engineer at Cash App; Software Engineer at Square; Senior Advisor at DiversaTech Consulting; uGSI Data Structures (CS61B) at UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS); VP of Projects at DiversaTech Consulting; Software Engineering Intern at Bloomberg LP; PM for Airbnb Consulting Team at DiversaTech Consulting. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/vibha-seshadri)
- Based in New York (Brooklyn per search snippets). (https://www.linkedin.com/in/vibha-seshadri)
- Location is Brooklyn, New York, United States. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/vibha-seshadri)

## Experience
- Applied AI Engineer at Cognition (May 2026 - Present)
- Senior Software Engineer at Cash App (Jun 2022 - May 2026): Cash Families
- Software Engineer at Square (Aug 2020 - Jun 2022): Payment Products
International Onboarding
- Senior Advisor at DiversaTech Consulting (Jan 2020 - May 2020): Advised Quokka Brew consulting team as they built Mobile app
- uGSI Data Structures (CS61B) at UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS) (Jan 2019 - May 2020): Led discussion sections, labs, & office hours

Developed teaching materials

Graded and proctored exams
- VP of Projects at DiversaTech Consulting (May 2019 - Dec 2019): 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
- Software Engineering Intern at Bloomberg LP (Jun 2019 - Aug 2019): 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.
- PM for Airbnb Consulting Team at DiversaTech Consulting (Jan 2019 - May 2019): 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
- Senior Mentor at Computer Science Mentors (Aug 2018 - May 2019): Led mentorship and curriculum development for UC Berkeley's 1400+ student Data Structures community, creating educational guides on Git internals, OOP, and Java while coaching junior mentors.
- Technology Solutions Consultant for Airbnb Consulting Team at DiversaTech Consulting (Aug 2018 - Dec 2018): Technical research and scoping of vendor integrations with Airbnb
- Data Structures (CS61B) Staff Tutor at UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS) (Aug 2018 - Dec 2018): Tutored 5 students weekly through guided worksheets and personalized lectures to reinforce concepts, and build confidence in their problem solving abilities. 

Graded projects and exams
- Software Engineering Intern at GE (May 2018 - Aug 2018): Automated cloud and networking infrastructure deployment using Terraform and Ansible, converting 15+ manual processes into coded configurations while developing REST API-driven solutions to improve DevOps efficiency and reduce cloud costs.
- Business Strategy Consultant for LinkedIn Consulting Team at DiversaTech Consulting (Jan 2018 - May 2018): Conducted market research and a 100+ person student survey to analyze LinkedIn's competitive landscape, delivering data-driven decks with user stories and strategic recommendations for product growth.
- Junior Mentor at Computer Science Mentors (Jan 2018 - May 2018): Tutored UC Berkeley Data Structures students through weekly sections with custom lesson plans, and co-developed a course guide on Minimax and Alpha-Beta Pruning algorithms.
- Design Consultant for Skylar Consulting Team at DiversaTech Consulting (Aug 2017 - Dec 2017): Redesigned Skylar's mobile application UX through Marvel prototyping, earning MVP recognition from the consulting team.

## Education
- University of California, Berkeley - Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science - (Jan 2016 - Dec 2020): DiversaTech, Computer Science Mentors, Upsilon Pi Epsilon, Student Ambassadors for the Arts, Society of Women Engineers, Project RISHI,

## Sources
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/vibha-seshadri
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/joshua-swigut-a91014158_cash-app-helps-families-build-healthy-financial-activity-7452370833068572672-zbEC
- https://sp19.datastructur.es/staff.html
- https://cognition.com/blog/windsurf
- https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cognition/811c3f5a-b26d-4162-b49b-93890a91794d
- https://cognition.com/team-spotlights


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