# Inside Cognition

Part of Inside Cognition, researched with Autumn (https://www.autumn.ai) from public sources. Updated 2026-11-04. Interactive version: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition

The people at Cognition, the company behind Devin and Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf): who they are, where they worked together before, the companies Cognition acquired and the culture in their own words. Every fact links to its source.

- People found at Cognition: 666 (528 current, 138 former)
- Full profiles: 237
- Companies acquired: 6

## Timeline

- 2023-11: TechCrunch reported Cognition was founded in November 2023 (Wikipedia gives August 2023), while Cognition's own 2026 posts say "We started Cognition in January 2024." [1](https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/20/heres-the-full-list-of-49-us-ai-startups-that-have-raised-100m-or-more-in-2024/) [2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognition_AI) [3](https://cognition.com/blog/1b-run-rate)
- 2024-03-12: Cognition introduced Devin, "the first AI software engineer", reporting it resolved 13.86% of SWE-bench issues end to end. [1](https://cognition.com/blog/introducing-devin)
- 2024-03-12: Cognition said it had raised a $21 million Series A led by Founders Fund. [1](https://cognition.com/blog/introducing-devin)
- 2024-04-24: Founders Fund led a $175 million round that closed on April 24, valuing Cognition at nearly $2 billion, according to TechCrunch. [1](https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/20/heres-the-full-list-of-49-us-ai-startups-that-have-raised-100m-or-more-in-2024/) [2](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/six-month-old-ai-coding-startup-valued-at-2-billion-by-founders-fund)
- 2024-12-10: Cognition made Devin generally available. [1](https://cognition.com/blog/devin-generally-available)
- 2025-03-18: Bloomberg reported Cognition raised hundreds of millions of dollars at a valuation close to $4 billion in a round led by 8VC. [1](https://news.bloomberglaw.com/private-equity/cognition-ai-hits-4-billion-value-in-deal-led-by-lonsdale-firm)
- 2025-07-14: Cognition signed a definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf, three days after Google DeepMind hired Windsurf's CEO and co-founder. [1](https://cognition.com/blog/windsurf) [2](https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/11/windsurfs-ceo-goes-to-google-openais-acquisition-falls-apart/)
- 2025-08-05: TechCrunch, citing The Information, reported Cognition laid off 30 Windsurf employees and offered buyouts to the roughly 200 remaining. [1](https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/05/three-weeks-after-acquiring-windsurf-cognition-offers-staff-the-exit-door/)
- 2025-09-08: Cognition raised over $400M at a $10.2B post-money valuation led by Founders Fund. [1](https://cognition.com/blog/funding-growth-and-the-next-frontier-of-ai-coding-agents) [2](https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/08/cognition-valued-at-10point2-billion-two-months-after-windsurf-.html)
- 2025-10-29: Cognition released SWE-1.5, its agent model served with Cerebras, in Windsurf. [1](https://cognition.com/blog/swe-1-5)
- 2026-01-28: Cognition opened a London office. [1](https://cognition.com/blog/cognition-london)
- 2026-04-09: Cognition launched in Japan with former Datadog Japan president Takumi Masai as Japan President and General Manager. [1](https://cognition.com/blog/launching-in-japan)
- 2026-04-15: Windsurf 2.0 brought Devin into Windsurf. [1](https://cognition.com/blog/devin-in-windsurf)
- 2026-04-29: Cognition announced its Singapore expansion and said it followed the acquisition of Havana, a startup building AI agents. [1](https://www.edb.gov.sg/en/news-and-insights/cognition-expands-to-asia-with-singapore-regional-headquarters) [2](https://technode.global/2026/04/29/ai-coding-agent-cognition-expands-to-singapore-as-asia-pacific-hub/)
- 2026-04-30: Cognition opened its Singapore APAC headquarters, led by Richard Spence. [1](https://cognition.com/blog/singapore)
- 2026-05-27: Cognition raised over $1B at a $26B valuation led by Lux Capital, General Catalyst and 8VC, with run-rate revenue at $492M. [1](https://cognition.com/blog/series-d)
- 2026-06-02: Cognition announced Devin Desktop, "the next generation of Windsurf". [1](https://cognition.com/blog/introducing-devin-desktop)
- 2026-07-20: Cognition welcomed the TierZero team and said it would bring their automations work into Devin. [1](https://cognition.com/blog/welcoming-tierzero) [2](https://www.accel.com/news/cognition-acquires-tierzero-building-the-autonomous-engineering-agent)
- 2026-07-22: Cognition signed an MOU with the U.S. Department of Energy to join the Genesis Mission. [1](https://cognition.com/blog/cognition-doe-genesis-mission)
- 2026-07-23: Cognition welcomed The Interaction Company of California, maker of Poke; TechCrunch reported a low nine-figure price. [1](https://cognition.com/blog/interaction) [2](https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/why-cognition-bought-poke-ai-personality-is-becoming-a-competitive-advantage/)
- 2026-08-03: Former Coinbase chief legal officer Paul Grewal disclosed he had joined Cognition as chief legal and global affairs officer. [1](https://news.bloomberglaw.com/in-house-counsel/spacexai-ai-unicorn-cognition-recruit-former-coinbase-lawyers)
- 2026-08-19: Bloomberg reported SpaceX had tried to acquire Cognition; Scott Wu replied that Cognition "is not for sale" and called the report inaccurate. [1](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/19/cognition-ceo-denies-report-that-spacex-tried-to-acquire-the-startup/)
- 2026-09-08: Cognition raised over $2B at a $48B valuation led by Andreessen Horowitz and Accel, with run-rate revenue at almost $900M. [1](https://cognition.com/blog/series-e) [2](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/cognition-hits-48b-valuation-signaling-investors-believe-ai-coding-is-far-from-a-winner-take-all-market/)
- 2026-09-09: Cognition said RSA-260 was factored by a new GPU implementation of the general number field sieve that Devin built and ran. [1](https://cognition.com/blog/factoring-rsa-260)
- 2026-09-10: The Dioxus Labs team joined Cognition, and Dioxus stays open source. [1](https://cognition.com/blog/welcoming-dioxus) [2](https://dioxuslabs.com/blog/joining-cognition)
- 2026-09-22: MarTech360 reported Cognition named Brandon Camhi Senior Vice President, Marketing. [1](https://www.martech360.com/news/cxo-moves/cognition-names-brandon-camhi-as-svp-marketing)
- 2026-09-25: Cognition said it crossed $1B in annualized revenue run rate. [1](https://cognition.com/blog/1b-run-rate)
- 2026-09-29: Alex Stamos announced he was joining Cognition to lead security; Cognition later called him its CSO. [1](https://thenextweb.com/news/stamos-joins-cognition-ciso-ai-security) [2](https://cognition.com/blog/corridor-joining-cognition)
- 2026-09-30: Former Snowflake chief revenue officer Chris Degnan announced he had joined Cognition as chief revenue officer. [1](https://x.com/cwdegnan/status/2105348199892598886)
- 2026-10-26: Cognition announced a major upgrade to Devin Security, its product for finding, prioritizing and remediating vulnerabilities. [1](https://cognition.com/blog/devin-security)
- 2026-10-28: Corridor, founded by Jack Cable and Ashwin Ramaswami, joined Cognition to work on Devin Security. [1](https://cognition.com/blog/corridor-joining-cognition)

## Before Cognition

- A Simple Proof of the Cayley Formula using Random Graphs (2013): [Scott Wu](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/scott-wu), [Andrew He](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/andrew-he), [Steven Hao](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/steven-hao) [1](https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.4096)
- An Elementary Proof of the Cayley Formula Using Random Maps (2014): [Steven Hao](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/steven-hao), [Andrew He](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/andrew-he), [Scott Wu](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/scott-wu) [1](https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.1614)
- United States of America IOI team 2014 (2014): [Scott Wu](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/scott-wu), [Steven Hao](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/steven-hao), [Andrew He](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/andrew-he) [1](https://stats.ioinformatics.org/results/2014)
- Scale AI: 14 people who later joined Cognition were there in 2021-09; 16 in all, 2017 to 2025. [Andrew Karpos](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/andrew-karpos), [Brooke Arthur](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/brooke-arthur), [Calvin Huang](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/calvin-huang), [David Morse](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/david-morse), [Elliot Branson](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/elliot-branson), [Federico Marcos](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/federico-marcos), [Gary (Bin) Chang](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/gary-chang), [Matias Pierobon Marcos](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/matias-pierobon-marcos), [Nicholas Schröder](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/nicholas-schroder), [Ouliana Trofimenko](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/ouliana-trofimenko), [Patricio Perez](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/patricio-perez), [Ramiro Silveyra d'Avila](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/ramiro-silveyra-d-avila), [Roshan Fernando](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/roshan-fernando), [Russell Kaplan](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/russell-kaplan), [Sara Xiang](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/sara-xiang), [Steven Hao](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/steven-hao)
- Lunchclub, 2020 to 2021: [Adhyyan Sekhsaria](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/adhyyan-sekhsaria) (Software Engineer) and [Scott Wu](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/scott-wu) (Co-Founder and CTO) [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/adhyyansekhsaria) [2](https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-wu-8b94ab96)
- Krebs Stamos Group, 2021 to 2022: [Alex Stamos](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/alex-stamos) (Partner) and [Jack Cable](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/jack-cable) (Security Architect) [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexstamos) [2](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackcable) [3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Cable_(software_developer)) [4](https://techcongress.io/jack-cable) [5](https://www.congress.gov/119/meeting/house/118140/witnesses/HHRG-119-HM00-Bio-CableJ-20250528.pdf)
- HeadsUp (acquired by Hightouch), 2021 to 2023: [Leo Li](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/leo-li) (Staff Engineer) and [Nathan Wangliao](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/nathan-wangliao) (Head of GTM) [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/leoyli) [2](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanwangliao)

More: [Where Cognition's people worked together before](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/worked-together)

## Olympiad medalists

16 people who work or worked at Cognition won 45 medals at the IOI and IMO, 25 of them gold.

- [Scott Wu](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/scott-wu): IOI 2012 gold, IOI 2013 gold, IOI 2014 gold ([olympiad profile](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/olympiads/scott-wu-olp-90519ae95dee545b8a6e))
- [Steven Hao](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/steven-hao): IOI 2013 silver, IOI 2014 gold ([olympiad profile](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/olympiads/steven-hao-olp-365211d427d45942a95f))
- [Walden Yan](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/walden-yan): IOI 2020 gold ([olympiad profile](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/olympiads/walden-yan-olp-4ba8fd82b68c5f8b813f))
- [Andrew He](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/andrew-he): IOI 2014 gold, IOI 2015 gold ([olympiad profile](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/olympiads/andrew-he-olp-fe4c459d6e3650039eb1))
- [Gennady Korotkevich](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/gennady-korotkevich): IOI 2006 silver, IOI 2007 gold, IOI 2008 gold, IOI 2009 gold, IOI 2010 gold, IOI 2011 gold, IOI 2012 gold ([olympiad profile](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/olympiads/gennady-korotkevich-olp-ca9a0cbcaa71541c9702))
- [Kevin Sun](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/kevin-sun): IMO 2013 bronze, IMO 2014 gold, IMO 2015 gold, IMO 2016 gold, IOI 2016 silver ([olympiad profile](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/olympiads/kevin-sun-olp-e6bcc4ec8d6453c39a82))
- [Adhyyan Sekhsaria](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/adhyyan-sekhsaria): IOI 2019 silver ([olympiad profile](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/olympiads/adhyyan-sekhsaria-olp-270f58a7caea5888a64b))
- [Neal Wu](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/neal-wu): IOI 2008 gold, IOI 2009 gold, IOI 2010 gold ([olympiad profile](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/olympiads/neal-wu-olp-4ede43a2315a5fd59008))
- [Carlo Baronio](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/carlo-baronio): IMO 2023 bronze ([olympiad profile](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/olympiads/carlo-baronio-olp-4bd91ec0838758d08f2e))
- [Daniel Chiu](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/daniel-chiu): IOI 2015 gold, IOI 2016 gold ([olympiad profile](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/olympiads/daniel-chiu-olp-e9b14640ec595401aeff))
- [Allen Liu](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/allen-liu): IMO 2014 gold, IMO 2015 gold, IMO 2016 gold ([olympiad profile](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/olympiads/allen-liu-olp-8d96c8e517a853fda402))
- [Elliot En-Yi Liu](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/elliot-liu): IOI 2021 silver, IOI 2022 gold ([olympiad profile](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/olympiads/elliot-en-yi-liu-olp-49ba78d909635f89b247))
- [Zhan Xiong Chin](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/zhan-xiong-chin): IOI 2008 bronze, IOI 2009 silver, IOI 2010 silver, IOI 2011 silver ([olympiad profile](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/olympiads/chin-zhan-xiong-olp-3c5c06f4686e57b1b125))
- [Sampriti Panda](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/sampriti-panda): IOI 2016 bronze, IOI 2017 bronze ([olympiad profile](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/olympiads/sampriti-panda-olp-909a4664ad395e04a3f1))
- [Mark Jabbour](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/mark-jabbour): IMO 2016 bronze, IMO 2017 silver, IMO 2018 bronze ([olympiad profile](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/olympiads/mark-jabbour-olp-a6bc9e21fd8c556a87de))
- [Chon Hou Ye](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/chon-hou-ye): IMO 2021 honourable mention, IMO 2022 bronze, IOI 2022 bronze, IMO 2023 silver, IOI 2023 bronze ([olympiad profile](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/olympiads/chon-hou-ye-olp-ca5ba60d4c195c4eb2c6))
- MIT ZERO (MIT) 2016, 6th, ICPC World Finals: [Steven Hao](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/steven-hao), [Andrew He](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/andrew-he), Brian Chen [1](https://cphof.org/profile/topcoder:aceofdiamonds)
- MIT TWO (MIT) 2018, 11th, ICPC World Finals: [Allen Liu](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/allen-liu), [Kevin Sun](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/kevin-sun), [Yang Liu](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/yang-liu) [1](https://cphof.org/profile/topcoder:desert97)
- MIT NULL (MIT) 2019, 2nd, ICPC World Finals: [Andrew He](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/andrew-he), [Kevin Sun](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/kevin-sun), Yinzhan Xu [1](https://cphof.org/profile/codeforces:ksun48)
- USA1 (Universal Cup) 2025, 1st, 3rd Universal Cup Semifinals: [Gennady Korotkevich](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/gennady-korotkevich), [Kevin Sun](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/kevin-sun), [Andrew He](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/andrew-he) [1](https://ucup.ac/news/3rd-ucup-semifinals/)

## Acquisitions

94 of the 112 people at Windsurf in July 2025 went to Cognition.

- [Windsurf](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/acquisitions/windsurf), 2025-07-14: Windsurf made an AI-powered IDE; Cognition's announcement called it "the agentic IDE".
- [Havana](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/acquisitions/havana), 2026-04-29: Cognition's press release described Havana as a startup building AI agents; Havana's November 2025 release described an AI student recruitment platform for higher education.
- [TierZero](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/acquisitions/tierzero), 2026-07-20: TierZero makes "AI production agents that live in your stack, solve problems automatically, and get smarter with every issue they resolve."
- [Poke](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/acquisitions/poke), 2026-07-23: Poke is a personal agent that lives in your texts, per Cognition's announcement.
- [Dioxus Labs](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/acquisitions/dioxus), 2026-09-10: Dioxus Labs makes Dioxus, which its site calls a fullstack crossplatform app framework for Rust.
- [Corridor](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/acquisitions/corridor), 2026-10-28: Forbes described Corridor's product as an AI system that watches AI and human coders and issues alerts when vulnerabilities arise as software is being written.

## In their own words

> I joined Cognition when we were ten people. My introduction to the company was a phone call in the middle of the night telling me to go to an apartment in Manhattan. The address was said once and never texted to me, so I had to remember it and hope I showed up at the right place.
>
> Salima Ghadimi, GTM Operations, Cognition team spotlight (https://cognition.com/team-spotlights/salima-ghadimi)

> One year ago I joined Cognition to train the best coding model. We were a handful of undergrad and PhD dropouts, and part of me wondered whether we could really get to the frontier without the experience.
>
> Ben Pan, Research Engineer, 2026-09-10 (https://x.com/ybenpan/status/2098077716146958723)

> We got rid of internal titles on the legal team at Cognition. They are orthogonal to our highly technical culture and  do little to align with our mission of expanding  human capacity through autonomous software engineering.
>
> Paul Grewal, Chief Legal & Global Affairs Officer, 2026-10-30 (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/paul-grewal-288978b4_we-got-rid-of-internal-titles-on-the-legal-activity-7521997728546222080-XXNG)

More: [75 quotes on working at Cognition](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/culture)

## Leadership and featured people

- [Walden Yan](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/walden-yan), Co-Founder & CPO: Human @ Cognition AI | IOI ’20 Gold Medalist | MIT PRIMES Researcher
- [Scott Wu](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/scott-wu), Co-Founder and CEO
- [Alex Stamos](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/alex-stamos), Chief Information Security Officer: CISO at Cognition, teaching at Stanford
- [Steven Hao](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/steven-hao), Co-Founder: Co-Founder at Cognition
- [Silas Alberti](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/silas-alberti), Chief Research Officer: Chief Research Officer & Founding Team @ Cognition | prev: AI PhD @ Stanford, DeepMind, Jane Street
- [Brandon Camhi](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/brandon-camhi), SVP, Marketing: Marketing @ Cognition
- [Emily Cohen](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/emily-cohen), SVP, Operations & People: Cognition | Neo | Stanford CS | ex McKinsey, Google
- [Paul Grewal](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/paul-grewal), Chief Legal & Global Affairs Officer: Member of Legal and Policy Staffs at Cognition
- [Russell Kaplan](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/russell-kaplan), President: President & Co-Founder at Cognition
- [Jeff Wang](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/jeff-wang), President, New Enterprise: President, New Enterprise at Cognition (Prev Windsurf CEO)
- [Jared Palmer](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/jared-palmer), Vice President of Engineering: VP of Engineering @ Cognition
- [Chris Degnan](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/chris-degnan), Chief Revenue Officer: Chief Revenue Officer at Cognition
- [Jeffrey Ling](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/jeffrey-ling), Human Software Engineer: Human Software Engineer @ Cognition
- [Adhyyan Sekhsaria](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/adhyyan-sekhsaria), Founding Engineer: Human Engineer at Cognition
- [Tony Jiang](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/tony-jiang), Founding Engineer: Human Software Engineer @ Cognition
- [Gennady Korotkevich](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/gennady-korotkevich), Software Engineer: tourist
- [Federico Marcos](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/federico-marcos), Data Infra & Analytics Lead: Data Infra & Analytics Lead @ Cognition | Previously Data Scientist & Engineer @Scale AI
- [Sara Xiang](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/sara-xiang), Human Product Manager: Building Cognition
- [Andrew He](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/andrew-he), Human Software Engineer: Building Cognition
- [Patricio Perez](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/patricio-perez), Ingeniero de software: Software Engineer at Cognition
- [Kevin Sun](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/kevin-sun), Software Engineer
- [Felix Schlegel](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/felix-schlegel), Co-Founder
- [Marvin von Hagen](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/marvin-von-hagen), Head of Interaction: Cognition 🦦🌴
- [Ashwin Ramaswami](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/ashwin-ramaswami), Member of Technical Staff: Member of Technical Staff at Cognition
- [Jack Cable](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/jack-cable), Head of Security Products: Head of Security Products at Cognition
- [Yun Park](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/yun-park), Member of Technical Staff: Member of Technical Staff at Cognition
- [Anhang Zhu](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/anhang-zhu), Special Projects: Building Cognition
- [Nathan Wangliao](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/nathan-wangliao), Building: Building Cognition
- [Jonathan Kelley](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/jonathan-kelley), Member of Technical Staff: MTS @ Cognition | Founder Dioxus s23 (acq)
- [Nick Wong](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/nick-wong), Special Projects Engineer
- [Zhan Xiong Chin](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/zhan-xiong-chin), Member of Technical Staff: Building Cognition
- [Rakeeb Hossain](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/rakeeb-hossain), Member of Technical Staff
- [Shawn Wang](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/shawn-wang), Advisor: ai.engineer
- [Mokshit Jain](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/mokshit-jain), Member of Technical Staff: Building Devin @ Cognition | Caltech
- [Daniel Chiu](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/daniel-chiu), Advisor: Engineering + more
- [Carlo Baronio](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/carlo-baronio), Research Lead: Research @ Cognition
- [Elliot En-Yi Liu](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/elliot-liu), Human Engineer: Human Engineer @ Cognition | MIT EECS | IOI Gold Medalist
- [Allen Liu](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/allen-liu), Researcher: Assistant Professor of CS at NYU Courant | ML Foundations
- [Cheng-Yuan Lee](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/sam-lee), Member of Technical Staff: ML @ Cognition | ICPC ’23/24 World Finalist
- [Yue Chen Li](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/yue-li), Software Engineer (building Devin): Research @ Transluce | CS, Neuro & Math @ MIT
- [Sampriti Panda](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/sampriti-panda), Researcher (research & infra): Student
- [Sushant Sachdeva](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/sushant-sachdeva), Member of Technical Staff
- [Jared Zoneraich](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/jared-zoneraich), Builder in Residence: National Design Studio & Cognition
- [Ashley Khoo](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/ashley-khoo), Member of Technical Staff: MTS @ Cognition | prev Google Deepmind | Competitive Programmer (CF LGM, IOI Gold x2, APIO Gold, ICPC regional Champion x3)
- [Charlie Meyer](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/charlie-meyer), Special Projects Engineer: Echols Scholar @ UVA | Neo scholar
- [Alexander Dengler](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/alexander-dengler), Member of Technical Staff
- [Joseph Zhang](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/joseph-zhang), Head of Design: Head of Design at Cognition
- [Theodor Marcu](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/theodor-marcu), Head of Product Growth: sudo devin make me a sandwich
- [Mark Porter](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/mark-porter), Field CTO
- [Gardner Johnson](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/gardner-johnson), VP of Partnerships
- [Akira Shibata, PhD](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/akira-shibata), Field CTO, Japan: Field CTO @ Cognition
- [Takumi Masai](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/takumi-masai), President & General Manager, Japan (日本法人社長): Cognition AI - President & General Manager, Japan (日本法人社長)
- [Neal Wu](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/neal-wu), former Member of Technical Staff: Thinking Machines Lab | prev new stealth co, founding team @ Cognition
- [Pietro Max Marsella](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/pietro-marsella), former Member of Technical Staff: Math & CS @ Stanford
- [Albert Tam](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/albert-tam), former Research Engineer: Research at OpenAI
- [Mark Jabbour](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/mark-jabbour), former ML research engineer: AI  at Jump Trading
- [Saransh Saini](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/saransh-saini), former Engineer: Software Engineer at Google DeepMind
- [Chon Hou Ye](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/chon-hou-ye), former Engineer: Undergraduate Student, Researcher @ MIT + Software Engineering Intern @ Windsurf
- [Cooper de Nicola](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/cooper-de-nicola), former Software Engineer: Building the ultimate attacker @ Armadin
- [Alex Hammett](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/alex-hammett), former Cognition - Europe: Conduct AI - Growth
- [Graham Moreno](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/graham-moreno), former VP, Worldwide GTM: Head of GTM at Parallel Web Systems
- [Satwik Bebortha](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/satwik-bebortha), former Deployed Engineering Leader: Applied AI,Codex Leader @ OpenAI
- [Chris Diaz](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/chris-diaz), former Deployed Engineering Team Lead: Forward Deployed Engineer at SpaceXSI
- [Michael Foster](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/michael-foster), former Founding Software Engineer: Senior Software Engineer | AI | Full Stack | DevOps

## Sections

- [The people at Cognition](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/index.md): Everyone Autumn found who works or worked at Cognition, by team, with a sourced profile for the leadership, researchers and engineers.
- [Olympiad medalists at Cognition](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/olympiads/index.md): The math and informatics olympiad medalists at Cognition, the years they won and the national and ICPC teams they shared.
- [Where Cognition's people worked together before](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/worked-together/index.md): The companies, startups, labs, schools and contest teams where people now or formerly at Cognition overlapped before joining.
- [The companies Cognition acquired](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/acquisitions/index.md): Windsurf and the other companies Cognition bought: what each made, the dated story of the deal and who joined.
- [Cognition's culture in its people's words](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/culture/index.md): What people at Cognition have said publicly about how they work, quoted verbatim with the date and a link to each.