Waldenyan.com It's easy to connect the dots looking back. For me, that line of dots started when I was a kid, spending my time reading random math books and playing with LEGOs. The math texts taught me to seek out truth and objectivity in all the complexity of the world. The plastic bricks fostered a love for building things that were both aesthetically pleasing and functional. In 5th grade I discovered video games and I soon wanted to know how I could build my own. I started on my programming journey with Java as my first language, not knowing where this road would take me. I went from building LEGO contraptions to software programs; no longer was my creativity bounded by physical and material limits. Fascinated by this power, I went on to study the most efficient algorithms and data structures, curious to explore the limits of what computers can do. This curiosity and love for challenges eventually led me to win a gold medal at the International Olympiad in Informatics. Fascinating as computers are though, I have also always been amazed by people. Being a part of many community organizations, I always saw the power of teams to accomplish tasks no individual could. As I learned mo
Co-founder and Chief Product Officer
Co-founded Cognition and leads product work on Devin and autonomous software-engineering systems.
Early Engineer
Worked as an engineer on Cursor before co-founding Cognition.
Co-Founder & CEO
Built automated program verification for security.
Managing Partner
Managed a team of 14 consultants and engineers building web applications and digital media; company acquired.
MIT PRIMES Researcher
Part-time cryptography and machine-learning research; worked on homomorphic encryption compiler integration with LLVM.
Undergraduate studies, Computer Science
Bachelor's studies in software
