# Dilan Krishnamurthy

GTM @ Cognition: Devin, the AI Engineer  
Cognition  
Austin, Texas, United States

## At Cognition

- Role: GTM (Sales/GTM)
- Joined: May 2025
- How they joined: With Windsurf (https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/acquisitions/windsurf)
- Before Windsurf: Corporate Development, Entrust
- Overlapped before Cognition with other Cognition people at: Codeium (Windsurf) (https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/worked-together)

## Identity
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dilan-krishnamurthy-b07625235
- Domain: cognition.ai

## Notes
- 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". (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dilan-krishnamurthy-b07625235)
- Was at Windsurf (formerly Codeium) in GTM for only about two months, May-July 2025. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dilan-krishnamurthy-b07625235)
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dilan-krishnamurthy-b07625235_not-bad-for-a-months-work-activity-7511814530759294976-Mc-U)
- 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." (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dilan-krishnamurthy-b07625235_cognition-devin-agenticai-activity-7487578896008364032-8vn-)
- Current Cognition role description: "Pioneering the background agent space with Devin, the first fully autonomous software/data engineer." Based in Austin, Texas. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dilan-krishnamurthy-b07625235)
- GTM at Deepfactor from Jun 2023 to May 2024. Deepfactor was a venture-backed AppSec tooling company that Cisco acquired in 2024. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dilan-krishnamurthy-b07625235)
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7503308853850267648-rqYi)
- Posted 2026-04-15 that he was heading to Google Cloud Next with the Cognition team and staffing booth 2015. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dilan-krishnamurthy-b07625235_googlecloudnext-cognition-agenticai-activity-7450257331587645440-pH0X)
- 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." (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dilan-krishnamurthy-b07625235)
- Public headline says "GTM @ Cognition: Devin, the AI Engineer". (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dilan-krishnamurthy-b07625235)
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dilan-krishnamurthy-b07625235)
- 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). (https://securityboulevard.com/2024/01/prioritize-risk-and-eliminate-sca-alert-fatigue-with-sca-2-0/)
- Deepfactor was founded in 2019 by Kiran Kamity and Mike Larkin. Kamity was previously founder/CEO of ContainerX (acquired by Cisco), so at Deepfactor Dilan worked under a serial security-infra founder. (https://startupintros.com/orgs/deepfactor)
- Devin is pioneering the AI agent space with the first fully autonomous software engineering agent - allowing devs to offload mundane work (vulnerability remediation, migrations, testing, etc.) to agents, while focusing on complex work within our agentic IDE, Windsurf.

Windsurf is the most contextually aware IDE available for developers - an advanced code acceleration platform aimed at empowering developers to deliver faster, more dependable software.  Our agentic engine works in harmony with th; this comes from the profile summary and preserves the person's own positioning. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dilan-krishnamurthy-b07625235)
- Holds a BS in Business Entrepreneurship from San Diego State University, magna cum laude. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dilan-krishnamurthy-b07625235)
- Previous roles include GTM at Windsurf; Corporate Development at Entrust; GTM at Deepfactor. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dilan-krishnamurthy-b07625235)
- Education history includes Bachelor of Science - BS, Business Entrepreneurship, San Diego State University. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dilan-krishnamurthy-b07625235)
- Listed as a Phi Kappa Psi Foundation donor/member "San Diego State '22" in the FY23 Foundation Impact Report. (https://www.phikappapsi.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Foundation-Impact-Report_FY23.pdf)
- Location is Austin, Texas, United States. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dilan-krishnamurthy-b07625235)

## Experience
- GTM at Cognition - Austin, Texas, United States (Jul 2025 - Present): Pioneering the background agent space with Devin, the first fully autonomous software/data engineer.
- GTM at Windsurf - Austin, Texas, United States (May 2025 - Jul 2025): 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
- Corporate Development at Entrust (May 2024 - Aug 2024): 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
- GTM at Deepfactor (Jun 2023 - May 2024): Deepfactor is a venture-backed application security tooling company, acquired by Cisco in 2024.

## Education
- San Diego State University - Bachelor of Science - BS, Business Entrepreneurship: Magna Cum Laude

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- https://startupintros.com/orgs/deepfactor
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Researched with Autumn (https://www.autumn.ai) from public sources. Updated 2026-11-04. Profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/dilan-krishnamurthy · Everyone at Cognition: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people