- Joined
- Mar 2026
- How they joined
- Directly
- Before Cognition
- DatadogEnterprise Director for Iberia, Italy, Middle East, Israel & Africa
- Status
- Current
- Joined Cognition as VP Southern Europe in March 2026, based in Madrid, after five and a half years at Datadog; the move from observability sales to AI coding agents follows the enterprise-infrastructure thread of his whole career (Rackspace, IBM, Acquia, MongoDB, Datadog).Mar 2026
- Posted about the launch of Devin Oncall, framing it through his observability background: 'Coming from the world of #observability and #monitoring this truly is a game changer.' Integration with Datadog, his former employer, makes this a natural bridge for his old customer base.Oct 19, 2026Coming from the world of #observability and #monitoring this truly is a game changer. A true #SRE; and Team of #SREs at your finger tips. Devin Oncall already handles thousands of alerts every day for some of the world’s largest companies. Let it become your SRE today. Devin Oncall works out of the box with Datadog, Dynatrace, Sentry, and more. We’re excited to partner with the observability community to turn production signals into investigations and fixes, so engineers can spend more time building. Get started today at https://devin.ai/oncall Read more at https://lnkd.in/exC99-mY
- Celebrated Cognition passing a $1bn run rate, tagging founders Scott Wu, Walden Yan, Steven Hao and President Russell Kaplan plus European colleagues (Claudia Hubert Zemanek, Izan Coomonte Suarez, Luis Blasco, Gael Lamarti Kekatos, Simone Agazzi, Ivan Sobina, Max Martin).Sep 25, 2026Honoured to be on the journey with you all. Russell Kaplan Scott Wu Walden Yan Steven Hao Claudia Hubert Zemanek Izan Coomonte Suárez Luis Blasco Gael Lamarti Kekatos Simone Agazzi Ivan Sobina Max Martin Patrick Bresnahan Berry Yirrell Christian W. Abby Becker Yannis Psorakis Jaime Leo Mizrachi Bryce Hunt Till Kern Domitille Bret any everyone else 1bn run rate and lots more to come! #ai #cognition #agenticsdlc #modernisation
- At Datadog he was Enterprise Director for Iberia, Italy, Middle East, Israel & Africa (Sep 2022 - Mar 2026).Sep 2022
- On the Sept 2026 $2B raise at a $48B valuation he wrote that the customer list matters more than the valuation: 'chip design at NVIDIA. Aviation at GE Aerospace. Financial services at Citi. Automotive at Mercedes-Benz AG.'Sep 8, 2026$492M → nearly $900M run-rate since May. But the number I'd point to isn't the valuation. It's the list: chip design at NVIDIA. Aviation at GE Aerospace. Financial services at Citi. Automotive at Mercedes-Benz AG. None of those are industries that adopt unproven tooling. They're the ones with the most legacy code, the most compliance surface, and the least tolerance for a bad merge — and they're expanding, not piloting. That's the part that tells you something real is happening. Happy to be on this journey with you all Claudia Hubert Zemanek Gael Lamarti Kekatos Luis Blasco Izan Coomont
- Reposted Cognition's launch of 'Devin Desktop: the next generation of Windsurf', the IDE Cognition acquired in 2025.Jun 2, 2026
- Pitched the Devin ROI guarantee: 'Cognition is the company behind this, and we back oursleves so much that its $10m ROI or your money back'.Aug 21, 2026Not just a tool, but the ability to multiply your workforce! Migrations from 11 months to 8 Days; 70% of vulnerabilities auto remediated. We are seeing project take 1/6 of the time, with 1/5th of the cost with Devin AI. Cognition is the company behind this, and we back oursleves so much that its $10m ROI or your money back https://devin.ai/guarantee.
- Promoted Mercedes-Benz AG adopting Cognition, saying the company reported a 25% speed-up in software engineering delivery.Apr 28, 2026Mercedes-Benz AG adopts Cognition to help drive AI in Software Engineering. In their own words they have sped up delivery across software engineering by 25%. #softwareengineering #AI #AgenticAI #cognition #devin #SDLC
- Spoke at MEDDICON (Oct 2022) with Datadog colleague Lucy Williams-Jones, both Directors of Enterprise Sales, on why to join a MEDDIC organisation and how they use MEDDICC when hiring.Oct 20, 2022
- Public headline says "VP Southern Europe @ Cognition".
- Wrote about Anthropic's Fable 5.1 in Devin Cloud, Desktop and CLI and recommended Devin Fusion for frontier performance at lower cost.Sep 2, 2026With launch of Anthropic's Fable 5.1 in Devin Cloud, Desktop and CLI, we ran some tests to understanding it's impact of improvement and cost. The cost of Fable intelligence just dropped by 54%. In fact, Fable 5.1 now costs less than Opus 5 on end-to-end tasks. The savings come from new cache pricing, and we updated Devin to take advantage of this. Devin is now smarter and cheaper with Fable 5.1 across Normal, Fusion, and Ultra, building on top of these Fable improvements. Overall, in Devin users should see 10-25% savings on real work from this update. We highly recommend Devin Fusion to any
- Shared Cognition's Mercedes-Benz result with the comment 'Numbers speak for themselves 8 months to 8 day!'May 5, 2026Simply amazing by Cognition and Mercedes-Benz AG. Numbers speak for themselves 8 months to 8 day!
Datadog is designed to solve the challenges of monitoring at scale, best illustrated by the huge increase we see across the following 4 dimensions technologists are having to contend with: [1] # of platforms & associated tools (Heritage, APaaS & Multi Cloud) [2] # of infrastructure units (Micro Services, Containers & Functions as a Service) [3] Frequency of code and configuration changes (Correlated to the Business KPI) [4] Number of engineers interacting with infrastructure (Feature teams & BizDevOps) Due to the rapid change across each of these 4 dimensions, the magnitude of the monitoring problem has drastically changed for both web-scale and traditional enterprises alike. Datadog was built to scale across these very dimensions, providing observability through correlated infrastructure, APM and Log data.
MongoDB's mission is to unleash the power of software and data for innovators everywhere. The most sophisticated organizations, from the largest global companies to cutting-edge startups, use MongoDB to drive their business. The company is recognised as the world's most popular next-generation database, with massive user adoption, thousands of customers and a large ecosystem of partners all over the world.
Acquia helps some of the world's biggest brands to deliver an amazing, highly personalised digital experience. Our technology powers the web and mobile experiences for 4000 companies around the globe - sites you likely use every day - helping retain competitive advantage, return greater shareholder value and above all deliver an incredible customer journey.
Acquia helps some of the world's biggest brands to deliver an amazing, highly personalised digital experience. Our technology powers the web and mobile experiences for 4000 companies around the globe - sites you likely use every day - helping retain competitive advantage, return greater shareholder value and above all deliver an incredible customer journey. Named one of the world's fastest growing software companies in Deloitte's 2015 Technology Fast 500. Leader in Gartner's Web CMS Magic Quadrant. Founded by Dries Buytaert - the creator of Drupal.
niu has been providing innovative and agile IT solutions to challenging businesses for over a decade. Using our trusted working process and methodologies we enable businesses to move faster, drive innovation and work more collaboratively; we give them the freedom to succeed. We believe that technology should help organisations to achieve their goals and find new opportunities by making complex and difficult tasks simple. Keeping our vision front of mind throughout everything we do for our clients enables us to build partnerships that grow and evolve over time. Delivering the solutions you need today and for the future, fostering your ambitions for growth by being your partner for success.
Rackspace; a world leader in Technology hosting delivers enterprise-level managed hosting, cloud hosting, and e-mail hosting services to businesses of all types and sizes globally. All wrapped around 'Fanatical Support'.
Masters in Risk
Honors in Business Administration
Coming from the world of #observability and #monitoring this truly is a game changer. A true #SRE; and Team of #SREs at your finger tips. Devin Oncall already handles thousands of alerts every day for some of the world’s largest companies. Let it become your SRE today. Devin Oncall works out of the box with Datadog, Dynatrace, Sentry, and more. We’re excited to partner with the observability community to turn production signals into investigations and fixes, so engineers can spend more time building. Get started today at https://devin.ai/oncall Read more at https://lnkd.in/exC99-mY
Honoured to be on the journey with you all. Russell Kaplan Scott Wu Walden Yan Steven Hao Claudia Hubert Zemanek Izan Coomonte Suárez Luis Blasco Gael Lamarti Kekatos Simone Agazzi Ivan Sobina Max Martin Patrick Bresnahan Berry Yirrell Christian W. Abby Becker Yannis Psorakis Jaime Leo Mizrachi Bryce Hunt Till Kern Domitille Bret any everyone else 1bn run rate and lots more to come! #ai #cognition #agenticsdlc #modernisation
$492M → nearly $900M run-rate since May. But the number I'd point to isn't the valuation. It's the list: chip design at NVIDIA. Aviation at GE Aerospace. Financial services at Citi. Automotive at Mercedes-Benz AG. None of those are industries that adopt unproven tooling. They're the ones with the most legacy code, the most compliance surface, and the least tolerance for a bad merge — and they're expanding, not piloting. That's the part that tells you something real is happening. Happy to be on this journey with you all Claudia Hubert Zemanek Gael Lamarti Kekatos Luis Blasco Izan Coomont
With launch of Anthropic's Fable 5.1 in Devin Cloud, Desktop and CLI, we ran some tests to understanding it's impact of improvement and cost. The cost of Fable intelligence just dropped by 54%. In fact, Fable 5.1 now costs less than Opus 5 on end-to-end tasks. The savings come from new cache pricing, and we updated Devin to take advantage of this. Devin is now smarter and cheaper with Fable 5.1 across Normal, Fusion, and Ultra, building on top of these Fable improvements. Overall, in Devin users should see 10-25% savings on real work from this update. We highly recommend Devin Fusion to any
Not just a tool, but the ability to multiply your workforce! Migrations from 11 months to 8 Days; 70% of vulnerabilities auto remediated. We are seeing project take 1/6 of the time, with 1/5th of the cost with Devin AI. Cognition is the company behind this, and we back oursleves so much that its $10m ROI or your money back https://devin.ai/guarantee.
"Devin is actually REALLY FRICKING GOOD NOW"
Simply amazing by Cognition and Mercedes-Benz AG. Numbers speak for themselves 8 months to 8 day!
Mercedes-Benz AG adopts Cognition to help drive AI in Software Engineering. In their own words they have sped up delivery across software engineering by 25%. #softwareengineering #AI #AgenticAI #cognition #devin #SDLC
