# Bakari Hargrave

Team Lead, Enterprise Sales at Cognition (Devin, Windsurf); ex-Codeium/Windsurf GTM, ex-Workday  
Cognition  
New York, New York, United States

## At Cognition

- Role: Team Lead, Enterprise Sales (Sales/GTM)
- Joined: Dec 2024
- How they joined: With Windsurf (https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/acquisitions/windsurf)
- Overlapped before Cognition with other Cognition people at: Codeium (Windsurf); Workday (https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/worked-together)

## Identity
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bakarihargrave
- Domain: cognition.com

## Notes
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bakarihargrave)
- 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." (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bakarihargrave_very-excited-to-announce-im-starting-a-new-activity-7429654953616388096-FN7t)
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bakarihargrave)
- 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!" (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bakarihargrave_im-happy-to-share-that-im-starting-a-new-activity-7274463005269016576-Ar17)
- 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)". (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bakarihargrave)
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bakarihargrave)
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/scanizares_account-director-enterprise-east-activity-7422281414206971904-Cpv6)
- Posted on 2025-09-17: "Cognition (Windsurf) has been named a Leader in the 2025 #Gartner #MagicQuadrant for AI Code Assistants." (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bakarihargrave_gartner-magicquadrant-activity-7374115759628763137-r3_S)
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew-wilen-22389155_workday-activity-7172935547034800128-JbDQ)
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/libankotile_shocktheworld-activity-7165381638930030593-MxsV)
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cognition-ai-labs_cognition-has-raised-over-2b-at-a-48b-valuation-activity-7503135806124097536-rwUq)
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ryanklaus_americas-greatest-startup-workplaces-2025-activity-7312620953442684930-fiZf)
- Posted on 2024-12-30, two weeks into the job: "It's been a huge year for the Codeium Community, and we're looking forward to driving even more value in 2025!" promoting Codeium Wrapped 2024. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bakarihargrave_its-been-a-huge-year-for-the-codeium-community-activity-7279531945519198209-SXmv)
- Reposted Cognition's 2026-05-05 launch of Devin for Security (remediation workflows from finding to reviewed PR), a product line in his enterprise pitch. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cognition-ai-labs_security-remediation-is-an-engineering-capacity-activity-7457474452264763392-TYaw)
- Windsurf role description he kept on LinkedIn says Windsurf was founded in 2021, raised over $243 million at a $1.25 billion valuation, and supported 1M+ developers and hundreds of enterprises, with investors including Kleiner Perkins, Greenoaks Capital and General Catalyst. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bakarihargrave)
- Co-hosted emerging-segment Workday customers at the Workday Intelligent Finance Tour in NYC in June 2024, thanked by Yana Kolmakova alongside Jordan Holand, Lee Sgrosso and Suzy Valdes-Rodriguez. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/yanakolmakova_wdayforeverforward-fins-emerging-activity-7208982349382918144-y5b7)
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Financial Management, Clemson University (2014 - May 2018), plus a 2017 Business in Paris study-abroad program at IESEG School of Management via Clemson College of Business. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bakarihargrave)
- Reposted Cognition's 2026-02-24 Devin 2.2 launch (computer-use testing, self-verify, auto-fix, 3x faster session startup). (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cognition-ai-labs_introducing-devin-22-the-autonomous-agent-ugcPost-7432111902631075840-rf_l)
- Commented on a Databricks Data+AI Summit post in June 2025 offering to connect the attendee with "our Windsurf team who'll be there", showing field-event prospecting during his Windsurf tenure. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tenduyogurtcu_data-ai-artificialintelligence-activity-7338083180194750464-snOP)
- Commented on a Jan 2025 DeepSeek R1 post: "I see the rise of leading open-source players like DeepSeek & others potentially being disruptive to..." showing interest in open-source model dynamics. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/techvj_ai-techdisruption-innovation-activity-7289852894902669312-4zn_)

## Experience
- Team Lead, Enterprise Sales at Cognition - New York City Metropolitan Area (May 2026 - Present)
- Account Director, Enterprise at Cognition - New York City Metropolitan Area (Jul 2025 - May 2026): Helping enterprises build more with Devin (the world's first AI software engineer)
- GTM at Windsurf - Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area (Dec 2024 - Jul 2025): 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.
- Account Executive at Workday - New York City Metropolitan Area (Apr 2022 - Dec 2024)
- Associate Account Executive at Workday - New York City Metropolitan Area (Nov 2021 - Apr 2022)
- Conversion Account Executive at Workday - Atlanta Metropolitan Area (Mar 2020 - Nov 2021)
- Corporate Sales Development at Workday - Greater Salt Lake City Area (Jul 2018 - Mar 2020)

## Education
- Clemson University - Bachelor’s Degree, Financial Management - (Jan 2014 - May 2018)
- IÉSEG School of Management - Business in Paris (Study Abroad Program), Clemson College of Business - (Jan 2017)

## Sources
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/bakarihargrave
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew-wilen-22389155_workday-activity-7172935547034800128-JbDQ
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/yanakolmakova_wdayforeverforward-fins-emerging-activity-7208982349382918144-y5b7
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/libankotile_shocktheworld-activity-7165381638930030593-MxsV
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ryanklaus_americas-greatest-startup-workplaces-2025-activity-7312620953442684930-fiZf
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/cognition-ai-labs/posts
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/bakarihargrave?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_profile%3AACoAABqqPN8B4RVTCCrhbmQTCkit4TZ6hSn4voQ
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nickspring_cognition-ai-activity-7509979103693975553-iSmM
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/techvj_ai-techdisruption-innovation-activity-7289852894902669312-4zn_
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/scanizares?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_profile%3AACoAABRU1goBVw6nkiSRClGfaYO6br2ZP1GWcZo
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tenduyogurtcu_data-ai-artificialintelligence-activity-7338083180194750464-snOP
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/cognition-ai-labs
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bakarihargrave_very-excited-to-announce-im-starting-a-new-activity-7429654953616388096-FN7t
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bakarihargrave_im-happy-to-share-that-im-starting-a-new-activity-7274463005269016576-Ar17
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/scanizares_account-director-enterprise-east-activity-7422281414206971904-Cpv6
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bakarihargrave_gartner-magicquadrant-activity-7374115759628763137-r3_S
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cognition-ai-labs_cognition-has-raised-over-2b-at-a-48b-valuation-activity-7503135806124097536-rwUq
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bakarihargrave_its-been-a-huge-year-for-the-codeium-community-activity-7279531945519198209-SXmv
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cognition-ai-labs_security-remediation-is-an-engineering-capacity-activity-7457474452264763392-TYaw
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cognition-ai-labs_introducing-devin-22-the-autonomous-agent-ugcPost-7432111902631075840-rf_l


Researched with Autumn (https://www.autumn.ai) from public sources. Updated 2026-11-04. Profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/bakari-hargrave · Everyone at Cognition: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people