# Dev Chheda

> Building Devin @ Cognition | EECS @ MIT

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/devchheda

Currently building Devin, the world's first AI Software Engineer, at Cognition.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Cognition
Jan 2024 – Present
Building Devin, the world's first AI Software Engineer.

### Researcher at MIT Parallel Algorithms Group @ MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Contributing to the development of a generalized framework for parallel algorithms for spatial grid-based clustering. Developing sequential baselines for the Grid-based Density-Isoline Clustering (GDILC) algorithm to verify correctness and measure performance overheads and work efficiency of parallel implementations. Optimizing parallel implementations of clustering algorithms to improve performance in practical, limited-scale use cases. Exploring the design of novel parallel grid-based clustering algorithms by combining key ideas from existing algorithms.

### Researcher at Low-Energy Autonomy and Navigation (LEAN) Group @ MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Co-designing algorithms and hardware to design energy efficient solutions to localization and mapping tasks 
Benchmarking algorithms for SLAM and multi-view stereo tasks to analyze memory-efficiency and throughput

### Laboratory Assistant for MIT 6.191 (6.004) @ MIT EECS
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Teaching topics in computer architecture, digital logic, operating systems to students during office hours.

### Quantitative Trader Intern @ Five Rings
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States
Participated in mock trading to obtain familiarity with how the market operates at the level of individual orders. Competed in automated trading strategy and design competition and in an complex zero-sum game.

### Silicon Design Engineer Intern @ AMD
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Austin, Texas, United States
Working with AMD’s Fast Platform Modeling Team to develop the SimNow simulator software for pre-silicon validation.

### Researcher at MIT Digital Humanities Lab @ MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Using Python, Django, JavaScript, and React to design and develop a full-stack Sonification Toolkit, which enables artists and musicians to transform non-audio data into audio in aesthetically meaningful ways. 
Using Git for version control, team collaboration, feature planning, and code review.

### Researcher @ MIT App Inventor
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Using Java, C, C++, and REST API to develop novel support for using IOT devices over Wi-Fi with MIT App Inventor, an Android app development and design software. 
Using Git for version control, feature planning, and code review.

### Founder, CEO @ Mad Mobile Apps
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Charlotte Metro
Developed mobile apps, games, and websites with 500,000+ collective downloads and web hits

### Software Engineer Intern @ NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality software development: Used C# and Unity to design and implement the new Motion Constraints mode for interacting with objects into NASA’s Mixed Reality Exploration Toolkit (MRET), an AR/VR software for science and engineering use cases.
Used Git and Azure DevOps for version control, large scale team collaboration, feature planning, and code review.

### Research Intern @ MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Developed new, innovative methods for shape processing, classification, and analysis with integrations into machine learning pipelines and gradient descent optimization algorithms using MATLAB, Python, and Mathematica
Research recognized at Regeneron Science Talent Search and as Grand Award winner at ISEF 2021

### RSI Scholar @ Research Science Institute (RSI)
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Selected as one of the top 80 students in the world to attend the most prestigious high school summer research program. During RSI, awarded the Top 10 research presentation distinction.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

### High School Diploma
Ardrey Kell High School

### Mathematics and Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Charlotte

### High School Diploma in Mathematics and Computer Science
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dev-chheda-6497bb1a7

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Last updated: 2026-03-28