- Joined Cognition
- Jul 2025
- How they joined
- With Windsurf
- Status
- Current
- Current role: Team Lead, Enterprise Sales at Cognition (New York City Metropolitan Area) since May 2026, a promotion after ~10 months as Account Director, Enterprise.May 2026
- Posted on 2026-02-17: "Very excited to announce I'm starting a new position as an Account Director, Enterprise at Cognition. We're growing our Enterprise Sales team across all regions (especially NYC!). If you're interested in helping build the future of software engineering, shoot me a DM."Feb 17, 2026Very excited to announce I'm starting a new position as an Account Director, Enterprise at Cognition. We're growing our Enterprise Sales team across all regions (especially NYC!). If you're interested in helping build the future of software engineering, shoot me a DM. More information and current openings here: https://lnkd.in/e7xrmHHT
- Arrived at Cognition through its July 2025 acquisition of Windsurf: his LinkedIn lists the Windsurf GTM role (Dec 2024 - Jul 2025) as "Acquired by Cognition", and the Cognition Account Director role starts the same month the Windsurf role ends.Jul 2025
- Joined Codeium (later renamed Windsurf) on its GTM team in Dec 2024, based in the Austin, Texas area; posted on 2024-12-16: "I'm happy to share that I'm starting a new position on the GTM team at Codeium!"Dec 16, 2024I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position on the GTM team at Codeium!
- Account Director, Enterprise at Cognition from Jul 2025 to May 2026; role description: "Helping enterprises build more with Devin (the world's first AI software engineer)".Jul 2025
- Spent 6.5 years at Workday (Jul 2018 - Dec 2024) climbing from Corporate Sales Development (Salt Lake City) to Conversion Account Executive (Atlanta) to Associate AE and then Account Executive (New York), a classic SDR-to-AE enterprise SaaS ladder before jumping to AI coding tools.Jul 2018
- Reposted colleague Sebastian Canizares's 2026-01-28 post about moving to NYC "to help build out our GTM team in the new SOHO office" and building Enterprise Sales in NYC, Austin and San Francisco.Jan 28, 2026
- Posted on 2025-09-17: "Cognition (Windsurf) has been named a Leader in the 2025 #Gartner #MagicQuadrant for AI Code Assistants."Sep 17, 2025Cognition (Windsurf) has been named a Leader in the 2025 #Gartner #MagicQuadrant for AI Code Assistants. 🚀 Read the full Gartner report here: https://lnkd.in/gWkkjT2B
- At Workday he was on Jordan Holand's emerging/SMB finance sales team: Andrew Wilen's March 2024 Rep of the Year post thanked teammates "Gabriella Schumacher, Bakari Hargrave, and Shivarth Patel" for teaching him, under leaders Jordan Holand, Matt Henrich and Aaron Ellis.Mar 11, 2024
- Served as a coach for a Workday Sales Academy class in Feb 2024, listed among fellow coaches Coulton Carrol, Justin Davis, Sue Rauzi, Scott Heninger and Chad Bennett.Feb 2024
- Reposted Cognition's 2026-09-08 announcement that it raised over $2B at a $48B valuation led by Andreessen Horowitz and Accel, citing run-rate revenue of $492M and enterprise usage up >10x this year, context for the enterprise segment he sells into.Sep 8, 2026
- Attended Codeium sales training in Austin (ATX) in March 2025; colleague Ryan Klaus tagged him among the Codeium GTM cohort and credited enablement leads Nicole Rettinger and Dani McCabe.Mar 31, 2025
Helping enterprises build more with Devin (the world's first AI software engineer)
Acquired by Cognition. Windsurf is a modern AI coding superpower, a code acceleration toolkit that combines world-class ML infrastructure with bleeding-edge AI capabilities. The result? The world's most advanced AI code context awareness engine to help developers ship code faster and more reliably. Founded in 2021, Windsurf has raised over $243 million in capital at a $1.25 billion valuation, supporting 1M+ developers and hundreds of enterprises. Investors include Kleiner Perkins, Greenoaks Capital, and General Catalyst Partners.
Very excited to announce I'm starting a new position as an Account Director, Enterprise at Cognition. We're growing our Enterprise Sales team across all regions (especially NYC!). If you're interested in helping build the future of software engineering, shoot me a DM. More information and current openings here: https://lnkd.in/e7xrmHHT
Cognition (Windsurf) has been named a Leader in the 2025 #Gartner #MagicQuadrant for AI Code Assistants. 🚀 Read the full Gartner report here: https://lnkd.in/gWkkjT2B
It's been a huge year for the Codeium Community, and we're looking forward to driving even more value in 2025! If you use Codeium or Windsurf, you can check out your own personal Codeium Wrapped 2024 at https://lnkd.in/eU-PjuvK
I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position on the GTM team at Codeium!
