# Jia Wu > Deployed Engineer @ Cognition | Windsurf Location: United States, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jiawu Solutions architect by trade, professional academic by training. Interested in all Tech things from research to industry. ## Work Experience ### Team Lead, Deployed Engineering @ Cognition Jan 2025 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States ### Deployed Engineer @ Windsurf Jan 2025 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States Windsurf was acquired by Cognition in July 2025 - https://cognition.ai/blog/windsurf Empowering everyone to dream bigger. Solutionize, support, and close strategic deals. ### Solutions Architect @ Tyk Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 | Americas Solutionize, support, and close strategic deals in complex sales cycles. Provide technical guidance and consultation for B2B customers interested in adapting an API-first approach to their business strategy. Conduct technical demos, as well as provide strategic guidance on how API management fits into companies, from startups to enterprises. Generate, produce and edit content across different media such as videos, blogs and technical articles to help drive both MQLs and SQLs. ### Scientific Researcher @ University of Waterloo Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | Waterloo, Ontario Project manager responsible for overseeing the software development efforts of the lab. Provided DevOps for lab servers and deployed research applications to on-premise data centres and cloud based Kubernetes clusters. Conducted bioinformatics research as a PhD (doctoral) candidate. Built and leveraged machine learning models to identify and quantify proteins from mass spectrometry data. Applied inference to datasets to identify nanoparticle drug candidates utilized in cancer research. Presented at research conferences. ### Teachers Assistant @ University of Waterloo Jan 2016 – Jan 2022 | Waterloo Performed duties as a teaching assistant for the following courses: Object Oriented Programming, Algorithms, Design Patterns, Biological Sequence Analysis, and Functional Programming. Responsible for creating marking schemes, building automated software evaluation pipelines and performed grading for assignments and exams. Consulted with students to assist with their education across multiple computer science disciplines. ### Co-Founder & Chief Data Scientist @ Auspre Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | London, Ontario, Canada Co-Founded a startup which leveraged AI to perform speech to text and speaker diarization operations. Secured funding from accelerators and led the data efforts of the company. Designed, trained, tested and deployed in-house transformer models for the purposes of Speech-To-Text, Speaker Diarization and Speech Refinement. Leveraged Tensorflow and CUDA Toolkit libraries to achieve these goals. Built ETL (Extract-Transfer-Load) data pipelines as well as the APIs required for supporting the software. ### Entrepreneur In Residence @ Eighty8 Ventures Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 - Represented the interests of Auspre/Scribr in partnership with Eighty8 Ventures - Artificial Intelligence domain expert ### Full-stack Developer @ Eighty8 Ventures Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | London, ON - Configured & maintained a High-Availability Kubernetes Cluster - Wrote APIs to interface with Amazon AWS, and Google GCP Services - Built & Deployed Applications on Digital Ocean through Rancher 2.0 - Maintained application data integrity using framework specific ORMs and MySQL ### Data Analyst & Software Developer @ Western University Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Medical Sciences Building - Gloor Lab Developed data processing pipelines for genomic data. Improved the runtime performance of existing pipelines by over 200%, reduced memory footprint of workflows by over 25%. Applied statistical analysis to high-throughput sequencing datasets to obtain experimental results utilized in publications. Published articles in peer reviewed journals and books. ## Education ### Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Candidate in Computer Science University of Waterloo ### Master’s Degree in Computer Science University of Waterloo ### Bachelor’s Degree in Honours BMSc Computational Biochemistry Western University ### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science Western University ### Fort Frances High School ### Shad Valley Certificate of Completion in Business/Mathematics Shad Valley At Memorial University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jia-rong-wu - Portfolio: https://jiarongwu.com/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/jiawu JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jiawu/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-10