Engineering · FDE

Ahmad Raza

Joined: May 2026
How they joined: Directly
Before Cognition: Palantir TechnologiesEnterprise Execution
Status: Current

Overlapped before Cognition

Palantir5

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Researched with Autumn · 2026-11-04

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LocationLondon, England, United Kingdom

Company sitecognition.ai

LanguagesEnglish, Hindi, Persian, Urdu

UniversityUniversity of California, Berkeley, Lahore University of Management Sciences

Data AnalyticsData VisualizationSQLStataIBM SPSSMicrosoft OfficePython (Programming Language)

Notes

Joined Cognition (maker of Devin and, since the July 2025 acquisition, Windsurf) as an FDE (forward deployed engineer) in London in May 2026.May 2026
Palantir path: Deployment Strategist in New York (Aug 2022 to Dec 2023), then Deployment Lead in New York (Jan 2024 to Jun 2025), then Enterprise Execution in Greater London (Jun 2025 to May 2026). He went from IC deployment work to leading deployments before moving to London.Aug 2022
He joined directly from Palantir after about four years there. He did not come over through the Windsurf/Codeium acquisition: his profile lists no Codeium or Windsurf role.May 2026
Palantir's Deployment Strategist track is the closest equivalent to Cognition's FDE role. Cognition's FDE and Applied AI job posts explicitly list 'deployment strategist' as qualifying experience.May 2026
Public headline says "Cognition".
TheOrg lists him on Cognition's 'Field Deployment' team (2 people) with location London, and lists previous companies AIESEC in Turkey, Palantir, UC Berkeley, and ibex.2026
Relocated from New York to London in mid-2025 while still at Palantir (Enterprise Execution, Greater London). He then joined Cognition's London FDE team, which was hiring for 'Forward Deployed Engineer - Europe' roles in London.Jun 2025
Data Scientist on a capstone research project at UC Berkeley (2021 to 2022), as part of the MEng in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. Berkeley MEng capstones run through the Fung Institute.2021
Data Analyst at ibex in Lahore (Sep 2019 to Aug 2021). ibex is a BPO and customer-engagement firm, and this was his first full analytics role after LUMS.Sep 2019
Previous roles include Enterprise Execution at Palantir Technologies; Deployment Lead at Palantir Technologies; Deployment Strategist at Palantir Technologies; Co-Founder at FD Pharma; Data Scientist | Capstone Research Project at University of California, Berkeley; Data Analyst at ibex; Global Intern at AIESEC in Turkey.
Profile skills center on data analytics (SQL, Python, Stata, SPSS, data visualization). These reflect his analyst and OR roots, from before his Palantir deployment career.2026
Global Intern with AIESEC in Turkey, Istanbul (Jun to Aug 2018), during his undergraduate years.Jun 2018

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