Alex Maske
“GTM Leader | Cognition”
- Joined
- Sep 2024
- How they joined
- Directly
- Before Cognition
- Grafana LabsStrategic Account Executive - Team Lead
- Status
- Current
- Current role is Director - Head of Travel, Media/Entertainment, Telco at Cognition.Nov 2026
- Since July 2026 Alex Maske is Director - Head of Travel, Media/Entertainment, Telco at Cognition, based in Austin, TX; the vertical title came after a year leading a Majors team.Jul 2026
- In May 2026 he wrote that he 'started Q1 in a brand-new vertical with just one rep on the team' and finished the quarter with five reps and another joining.May 22, 2026
- He joined Codeium/Windsurf in Sep 2024 in 'GTM - Strategic', selling Devin and Windsurf to enterprises, and states he 'Joined Cognition via the Acquisition of Windsurf July '25.' He reports Q1 FY'25 at 134% and Q2 FY'25 at 174% of quota.Sep 2024
- In Sep 2026 he shared that Cognition crossed $1B in annualized revenue: 'What a ride this has been. Thank you to our customers who have entrusted us to drive the future of software development with you.'Sep 25, 2026What a ride this has been. Thank you to our customers who have entrusted us to drive the future of software development with you.
- He shared Cognition's raise of over $2B at a $48B valuation, writing 'we are hiring across the board.'Sep 8, 2026Huge announcement - validated by the industry, our customers and our investors. We are just getting started - and we are hiring across the board. Excited to see the continued growth!
- From Aug 2025 he was Regional Director - Majors at Cognition: 'Leading a Majors team of go-to-market professionals.'Aug 2025
- Cognition signed a definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf (the agentic IDE, formerly Codeium) on 2025-07-14, including its IP, product, brand and people; this is how Maske moved from Windsurf to Cognition.Jul 14, 2025
- Public headline says "GTM Leader | Cognition".Nov 2026
- He promoted Cognition's AI Productivity Guarantee (Cognition funds Devin usage up to $10M if value falls short), framing it as 'AI being measured like labor' and 'Stop token-maxing and start ROI-maxing with Devin today.'Jun 5, 2026"Don't pay me until I've proven I'm creating more value than I cost." Most hiring managers would think they're crazy. Yet that's effectively what Cognition just announced with our AI Productivity Guarantee. If Devin delivers less engineering value than you're paying for, Cognition will fund your usage until it does, up to $10M. Think about how different that is from most enterprise software purchases. Most software is sold on promises, demos, and adoption hopes. This is AI being measured like labor. Stop token-maxing and start ROI-maxing with Devin today.
- LinkedIn lists a separate 2026 Cognition role, 'Director - Head of Healthcare and Life Sciences', before the Travel/Media/Telco title.2026
- In Apr 2025 he wrote that 'The Windsurf engineering team is the fastest, smartest, and most innovative group of folks I've ever had to keep pace with.'Apr 9, 2025This space is the most exciting I have ever worked in. The Windsurf engineering team is the fastest, smartest, and most innovative group of folks I've ever had to keep pace with. If you haven't yet used Windsurf, there is no better time to start than today. Still curious about what AI can do for your teams or development work? Ping me and let's dive a bit deeper. Surf's Up!!!
Leading a Majors team of go-to-market professionals.
Helping enterprises build more with Devin (the world's first AI software engineer) and Windsurf (the leading Agentic Coding Assistant). Q1 FY'25: 134% Q2 FY'25: 174% Joined Cognition via the Acquisition of Windsurf July '25.
Promoted to be a Strategic Rep, covering global accounts while also being promoted to Team Lead to mentor & develop reps across the org; leading by example.
Grafana is redefining observability; enabling organizations to maximize application performance, reliability, and flexibility. Grafana Labs is behind the Grafana, Mimir, Loki and Tempo OSS projects for visualizing, storing and analyzing time series data, logs and traces. Our platform helps developers and operations teams take control of their unified monitoring while avoiding vendor lock-in and the spiraling costs of closed source solutions. FY '24 - 157% (President's Club) 1H FY'23 - 106%
Lacework brings automation, speed, and scale to end-to-end cloud security enabling enterprises to safely innovate fast in the cloud.
Zscaler enables enterprises to successfully move their applications and infrastructure to the cloud, providing fast and secure connections regardless of device, user or application location or network. Supported 12 Large Enterprise organizations in the Bay Area FY '21- 124% quota attainment
Covering Enterprise Accounts in the East Bay Area and Fresno Valley Region *August 2018 - February 2019 covering SLED*
What a ride this has been. Thank you to our customers who have entrusted us to drive the future of software development with you.
Huge announcement - validated by the industry, our customers and our investors. We are just getting started - and we are hiring across the board. Excited to see the continued growth!
"Don't pay me until I've proven I'm creating more value than I cost." Most hiring managers would think they're crazy. Yet that's effectively what Cognition just announced with our AI Productivity Guarantee. If Devin delivers less engineering value than you're paying for, Cognition will fund your usage until it does, up to $10M. Think about how different that is from most enterprise software purchases. Most software is sold on promises, demos, and adoption hopes. This is AI being measured like labor. Stop token-maxing and start ROI-maxing with Devin today.
Quick follow on from my last post... What a time to be at Cognition. We are just getting started!!! 🚀🚀🚀🚀
Santander is leading the market in AI Adoption and digital transformation strategy. Excited to see this partnership grow!! Exciting times at Cognition! If you are interested in how Devin can scale your AI-workforce for your engineering organization - my DM's are open.
This space is the most exciting I have ever worked in. The Windsurf engineering team is the fastest, smartest, and most innovative group of folks I've ever had to keep pace with. If you haven't yet used Windsurf, there is no better time to start than today. Still curious about what AI can do for your teams or development work? Ping me and let's dive a bit deeper. Surf's Up!!!
Talk about a good time to join, this is absolutely mind blowing what Codeium has built. Take a look, check it out, and as always - ping me with any questions.
At the Silicon Valley #VMUG representing Cohesity! What a blast!
"Don't pay me until I've proven I'm creating more value than I cost." Most hiring managers would think they're crazy. Yet that's effectively what Cognition just announced with our AI Productivity Guarantee. If Devin delivers less engineering value than you're paying for, Cognition will fund your usage until it does, up to $10M. Think about how different that is from most enterprise software purchases. Most software is sold on promises, demos, and adoption hopes. This is AI being measured like labor. Stop token-maxing and start ROI-maxing with Devin today.
Huge announcement - validated by the industry, our customers and our investors. We are just getting started - and we are hiring across the board. Excited to see the continued growth!
Insightful post on analytics that can be derived from coding assistant tools. We are seeing some amazing results from our customers around the impact of adopting Windsurf!
