In a push to enhance its AI code generation abilities Google has hired a number of employees from Windsurf a quickly growing AI infrastructure startup including Varun Mohan Windsurfs co-founder and CEO. He and co-founder Douglas Chen are now going to Google after a tense corporate face-off which saw OpenAI in advanced talks to acquire Windsurf just a month ago. Varun Mohan is of Indian descent having been born and raised in Sunnyvale California by children of Indian immigrants. He went to The Harker School in San Jose and then to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he earned a Bachelors and Master of Engineering in Computer Science. According to his LinkedIn profile Varun Mohan co-founded Windsurf in June 2021. The startup was based in Mountain View and received attention after launching AI tools that would reduce friction and speed up the process of software development. During this time Windsurf quickly became a prominent player in the AI infrastructure space under his leadership. Before starting Windsurf Varun Mohan spent over three years at autonomous vehicle company Nuro. He joined in early 2018 as a software engineer was promoted to tech lead for autonomy infrastructure by August 2019 and became tech lead manager in 2020. Varun Mohans resume also highlights engineering-related internships at several prominent Silicon Valley tech companies. In 2017 he started at Databricks where he worked on machine learning systems; earlier that same year he interned at Cloudian Inc. where he contributed to S3 storage infrastructure; and in 2016 he interned as a software engineer at Quora with a focus on data infrastructure.