About

Hi, I'm Ali Khani.

I'm a community builder and AI-native GTM engineer. I scaled a national tech nonprofit from one Berkeley club to 30+ chapters — and I'm a top-200 global Devin power user. I built this site with Devin to show, not tell, what a community for Devin could be.

Devin gives engineers superpowers. I build the community that teaches the world how to use them.

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Based in
San Francisco Bay Area
GitHub
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01 Build · Teach · Connect

Build

I ship with agents.

Top-200 global Devin power user. I build OSS agent harnesses (Tinker) and ship internal AI tooling at Keysight. This whole site was orchestrated with Devin.

Teach

I make hard things shippable.

TA'd Berkeley's CS 61B (1,800 students, 90 staff) and ran weekly MTC leadership lectures. 7M+ Quora views as a teen. I turn complex tools into things people actually use.

Connect

I build operating systems for communities.

Founded MTC and scaled it to 30+ university chapters and 4 city hubs — a three-tier model with a meetup-in-a-box playbook. I don't just join communities; I architect them.

02 The track record
  1. Keysight Technologies

    Dec 2025 – present

    Growth Insights / GTM Engineer

    AI-native GTM engineer driving RapidCanvas partnerships and Clay-powered lead-gen across 6+ business verticals. One of the main operators for internal AI tooling.

  2. Bloom

    Feb – Apr 2025

    Co-founder & CEO

    AI-powered conference matchmaking. Idea to live product in 6 days; first paying customer (TechWadi) in 4. Ran live for 550+ attendees with a 85% match-accept rate.

    First customer: TechWadi

  3. Muslim Tech Collaborative (MTC)

    2023 – present

    Founder & National Lead

    Scaled from one Berkeley club to 30+ university chapters and 4 city hubs across a three-tier org model. North America's largest Muslim tech ecosystem.

  4. UC Berkeley

    Grad. Dec 2024

    B.S. Computer Science · CS 61B TA

    Taught Data Structures to 1,800 students alongside 90 course staff — the scaling lesson that became the MTC playbook. SCET Entrepreneurship & Technology certificate.

  5. Five9

    2023

    Product Security Intern

    Product security on contact-center infrastructure used by CVS, Alaska Airlines, and more.

03 Built with Devin

This site is the demo.

Every page of cognitioncoffee.co was orchestrated by a fleet of parallel Devin sessions — each owning a distinct workstream, writing real code into a shared repo without collisions. The architecture, design system, data layer, and collision-free orchestration strategy were all built in Devin.

  • 5 parallel workstreams — Home, Community, Blog, About, Menu deep-dives
  • Astro + Tailwind v4 — matches devin.ai's own stack
  • Collision-free by design — file ownership per workstream
  • Quality gated by deslop, Lighthouse, responsive QA
DEVIN SESSION
$ astro build
 pages rendered
 0 errors, 0 warnings

$ deslop score
  slop score: 0 (clean band)

devin@cognition-coffee:~$

04 Why Cognition, why this

Why this, why now.

  • Cognition is early in community — that's the greenfield I do my best work in.
  • Cursor is ahead on events; I can bring a sustained chapter network they don't have.
  • I'm a power user first, community builder second — technical credibility plus reach.
  • I'd rather build the strategy than just describe it — so I did.
05 Let's talk

Coffee's on me.

If this resonates, I'd love to compare notes on where Cognition's community goes next.