Hi,
I'm Priya.

I'm currently a deployed engineer at Cognition, showing customers what's possible with autonomous agentic coding platforms. I'm on the ground closing multi-million dollar deals, while helping shape product improvements, key use cases, and personalized workflows that make engineering teams faster.

Every customer meeting teaches me something new about how enterprise sales, persona-tailored messaging, product, and the competitor landscape intersect. I'm mainly focused on product storytelling, making sure my technical and non-technical users know exactly how to get value from our products.

Beyond my core role, I look for ways to help shape how Cognition grows: onboarding new hires, sitting in on interview loops, creating content for our website, and redesigning a new webpage for our international customers.

I chose to move to Windsurf because it was a rapid, high-stakes place to level up on agentic tools and customer conversations. Making the leap from product manager to deployed engineer was scary, but I knew I needed to get hands-on with AI, understand how LLMs actually worked, and see how real users were using it (+ the PM role didn't exist there). I wanted an experience where I could sharpen my sales instincts, speak confidently about AI, and push myself far outside my product comfort zone.

The early days were a whirlwind: I spent every waking hour learning the platform and the system architecture so I could articulate both the engineering and business value. That intensity reminded me how fast learning still happens when you're surrounded by people who blur the lines between product, sales, and engineering.

Day 5, half the company was taken to Google. Day 7, we were acquired by Cognition. The rollercoaster taught me resilience, adaptability, and how to stay calm while everything changes-skills I still lean on every day.

My journey started at Microsoft right after graduation, where I joined a cross-device team focused on blending Windows experiences with Android and iOS. That role was my first exposure to scrappy product shipping during a pandemic - it taught me how to navigate ambiguous launches and keep momentum even when everything felt slow.

Instant Hotspot in Phone Link was the first feature I shipped, and I kept stretching: pulling mobile cameras into Windows as additional webcams and integrating phone files to show up inside of File Explorer. Each launch reinforced that great product work requires research, collaboration, and clear metrics in equal measure.

Those cycles - competitive research, flow mapping, design collaboration, engineering scoping, bug bashes, analytics, and launch planning - shaped my foundation in shipping good products.