Charlie Meyer

Charlie Meyer is a Special Projects Engineer at Cognition and a co-founder of Dueflow, which helps student organizations collect dues and manage reimbursements. He co-founded the product with Santiago Schmitt and took the CTO role; the two earned recognition for Dueflow at UVA’s 2026 E-Cup.

Charlie studied computer science at the University of Virginia as an Echols Scholar and interned at Principal Financial Group. At UVA, he worked on LEANADAPT, a research project on adapting neural theorem provers as the environments in which they construct proofs change. At AI Engineer Code 2026, Charlie is scheduled to explore where Devin fits into a coding research team and what comes next for post-training coding models.

One of Charlie’s projects at UVA started with a $5 Goodwill couch. Over a semester, he and his collaborators turned it into a self-driving couch and rebuilt its wooden frame three times. Their CouchVision software streamed camera, depth and GPS data from an iPhone to an onboard computer, where ROS 2 and Nav2 helped the couch plan and follow a route.

The physical rebuilds made one advantage of the software clear: when the team organized how its components passed messages, they could more easily replay recorded runs. Feeding the software the same sensor data let them inspect where navigation had gone wrong and try a fix without hauling the couch back outside.