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Aakash Mahalingam

Aakash Mahalingam

CEO at Canary (YC) | x-Cognition

Co-founderCanary logoCanary· Winter 2026San Francisco Bay Area
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2026Co-founder· Canary (YC W26)
Founder · since 2026
Company
Canary (YC W26)
Role
Cofounder and CEO
current
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Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role
Source: LinkedIn work history
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Canary

The first AI QA engineer that understands your code

Winter 2026

Experience

Career

  • Canary (YC W26) logo

    Canary (YC W26)

    Co-founder

    Cofounder and CEO · 2026 – Present

    2026
  • Windsurf logo

    Windsurf

    Software Engineer · 2025 – 2026

    2025
  • Chan Zuckerberg Initiative logo

    Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

    Software Engineer Intern · California, United States · 2023

    2023
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) logo

    Amazon Web Services (AWS)

    Software Engineer · 2021 – 2022

    2021
  • Morgan Stanley logo

    Morgan Stanley

    Technology Associate · 2021

    2021
  • Morgan Stanley logo

    Morgan Stanley

    Technology Analyst · 2020 – 2021

    2020
  • Morgan Stanley logo

    Morgan Stanley

    Technology Analyst Intern · 2020

    2020
  • Freshworks logo

    Freshworks

    Software Engineer Intern · 2018

    2018

Bio

Building Canary: The first AI QA engineer that understands code. Previously built Windsurf's enterprise product, worked on Applied AI tooling around foundational models for enterprises. Launched the enterprise self-serve plan to $20M ARR in 6 months. ICPC APAC finalist.