- Joined Cognition
- Jul 2025
- How they joined
- With Windsurf
- Before Windsurf
- EntrustCorporate Development
- Status
- Current
- Joined Cognition in a GTM role in July 2025, the same month Cognition acquired Windsurf; his LinkedIn Windsurf entry reads "Acquired by Cognition in July 2025".Jul 2025
- Was at Windsurf (formerly Codeium) in GTM for only about two months, May-July 2025.May 2025
- Posted "Not bad for a month's work" on 2026-10-02, recapping Cognition's "biggest month ever" and "what 30 days at Cognition looked like", including Devin on macOS for building and testing native iOS and Mac apps.Oct 2, 2026
- Posted 2026-07-27: "Cognition's top 40 publicly traded customers are up 40.7% over the past year, compared to the S&P 500 at 16.4%. A 24 point spread."Jul 27, 2026
- Current Cognition role description: "Pioneering the background agent space with Devin, the first fully autonomous software/data engineer." Based in Austin, Texas.Jul 2025
- GTM at Deepfactor from Jun 2023 to May 2024. Deepfactor was a venture-backed AppSec tooling company that Cisco acquired in 2024.Jun 2023
- Developer Parag Pallav Singh posted on 2026-09-09 about a call with Dilan that walked through Cognition's Devin platform and DeepWiki, so Dilan runs technical product conversations with builders as well as enterprise buyers.Sep 9, 2026
- Posted 2026-04-15 that he was heading to Google Cloud Next with the Cognition team and staffing booth 2015.Apr 15, 2026
- Before Windsurf he spent May-Aug 2024 in Corporate Development at Entrust, where he was a "Member of team that evaluated tech M&A targets in the Identity Verification and adjacent markets."May 2024
- Public headline says "GTM @ Cognition: Devin, the AI Engineer".
- Reposts Cognition announcements, including Devin 2.2 (Feb 2026), the Infosys partnership (Jan 2026), the over $2B raise at a $48B valuation (Sep 2026), and Devin Security (Oct 2026); his feed works as GTM amplification for Cognition.Oct 2026
- Wrote on Deepfactor's developer security blog (syndicated to Security Boulevard), e.g. "Prioritize Risk and Eliminate SCA Alert Fatigue with SCA 2.0" (2024-01-11).Jan 11, 2024
Pioneering the background agent space with Devin, the first fully autonomous software/data engineer.
Windsurf is a modern AI coding superpower, a code acceleration toolkit that combine's world-class ML infrastructure with bleeding-edge agentic capabilities. Acquired by Cognition in July 2025, our vision is to impact the entire SDLC from planning to production. Forbes 2024 & 2025 AI 50, JPMorgan Chase Hall of Innovation inductee, and first to FedRAMP High
Entrust is a leader in AI-enabled, identity-centric security. The company has 3,400 employees globally and over $1B in revenue. - Member of team that evaluated tech M&A targets in the Identity Verification and adjacent markets
Deepfactor is a venture-backed application security tooling company, acquired by Cisco in 2024.
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