Ashwin Ramaswami

Accomplishments

• Joined Cognition as a Member of Technical Staff after Cognition acquired Corridor (announced October 28, 2026).¹³
• Built Crossfeed at CISA to help states secure their elections.¹
• Has maintained react-jsonschema-form since 2019.¹

Career

At Stanford, Ramaswami was the first CTO of the Stanford Daily, organized TreeHacks, and worked on projects including CodaLab, the Stanford Internet Observatory and the Center for Research on Foundation Models (CRFM). From 2020 to 2023 Ramaswami worked at CISA, where the team built Crossfeed to help states secure their elections. In 2022 Ramaswami ran a grants program at Schmidt Futures supporting open source security after Log4Shell.¹

Ramaswami was later a tech law and policy fellow at Sequoia Capital in Washington, D.C., and in 2023 worked in the Georgia Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division through an ABA Steiger Fellowship, on the multistate litigation against Meta over child safety. At Georgetown Law, Ramaswami helped start the Judicial Innovation Fellowship. In 2024 Ramaswami ran for the Georgia State Senate in the Johns Creek district.¹

Corridor and Cognition

Corridor's about page lists Ramaswami as co-founder and CTO, "Engineer & published researcher in AI & foundation models at Stanford." Corridor raised a $25 million Series A at a $200 million valuation in March 2026, led by Felicis. In a Cognition blog post dated October 28, 2026, Ramaswami and Jack Cable wrote that "Corridor is joining Cognition, where we'll be taking Devin Security to the next level."⁴⁵³⁶

Writing

Ramaswami's site lists writing including "On the Societal Impact of Open Foundation Models" (2024), "A Safe Harbor for AI Evaluation and Red Teaming" (2024), "Securing Open Source Software at the Source" (2022) and "How I Accidentally Hacked Stanford's Admissions System" (2026).¹

Work and contributions

• react-jsonschema-form Open-source code

  Open source React library for building forms from JSON Schema; Ramaswami has maintained it since 2019.¹

• Corridor Proprietary product

  Security for AI-written code; co-founded with Jack Cable and acquired by Cognition in October 2026.⁴³

• On the Societal Impact of Open Foundation Models Published research

  2024 paper listed among Ramaswami's writing.¹

Timeline

1. 2019Began maintaining react-jsonschema-form.¹
2. 2020Joined CISA, where the team built Crossfeed.¹
3. 2022Ran an open source security grants program at Schmidt Futures.¹
4. 2023ABA Steiger Fellowship in the Georgia Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division.¹
5. 2024Ran for the Georgia State Senate.¹
6. Mar 18, 2026Corridor raised a $25 million Series A.⁵
7. Oct 28, 2026Corridor joining Cognition announced.³

Other documented roles

Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.

• Co-founder and CTO, Corridor (2026)¹⁴³
• Built Crossfeed for election security, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) (2020 – 2023)¹
• B.S. computer science, Stanford University¹
• J.D., Georgetown University Law Center¹

Where they work

• Cognition 7 people in the wiki

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• Walden YanAlso at Cognition
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• Jack CableAlso at Cognition
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