Dillon Vargo
“Account Director, East @ Cognition”
- Joined Cognition
- Jul 2025
- How they joined
- With Windsurf
- Before Windsurf
- Career BreakTravel
- Status
- Current
- William McCarthy took a leadership role over Cognition's Emerging Enterprise segment in NYC in August 2026 and tagged Dillon Vargo as one of his team ('Big months coming Tanvee Joshi, Parker Drew, Colton Asnes, Dillon Vargo, Aneesh Sharma, Travis Myers!'). He also thanked Austin Mead and Sebastian Canizares.Aug 6, 2026
- Has been at Cognition since August 2025 as 'GTM | Account Director, Enterprise', based in New York; his headline now reads 'Account Director, East @ Cognition'.Aug 2025
- Joined Windsurf (formerly Codeium) in a GTM role in April 2025 in Austin, TX; his LinkedIn entry for the role reads 'Acquired by Cognition!'.Apr 2025
- Posted about Cognition's Series E on 2026-09-08: 'Cognition's run rate has nearly doubled to $900M since our last round in May, just three months ago.' Cognition announced the same day that it had raised over $2B at a $48B valuation.Sep 8, 2026What it truly means to be part of a rocketship Cognition's run rate has nearly doubled to $900M since our last round in May, just three months ago. Devin is truly becoming a crucial piece of how companies build software today. It’s hard to wrap your head around that kind of growth, but being surrounded by a team of this caliber makes it easy to see how this is possible. Taking a moment to appreciate how far we've come, but this is just the beginning #doingitall #seriesE https://lnkd.in/daEAq4yn
- Promoted the Windsurf 2.0 launch in April 2026: 'Since the acquisition, bringing these two incredible tools together has been a vision and today it happened.'Apr 15, 2026Windsurf 2.0 is here!! So excited for this evolution of the Cognition Platform. Since the acquisition, bringing these two incredible tools together has been a vision and today it happened. This is the future of software engineering...
- Cognition signed a definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf (the AI IDE formerly called Codeium) in July 2025. Dillon's GTM role at Windsurf carried over to Cognition through that deal.Jul 14, 2025
- Before tech, spent about 2.5 years in door-to-door sales at Moxie Pest Control in San Diego. He started as a Direct Sales Representative (May-Aug 2022) and was promoted to Sales Team Lead on the Door-to-Door Team (Aug 2022-Nov 2024).May 2022
- Shared the Devin Desktop launch on 2026-06-02 with the comment: 'The future isn't one agent helping write code. It's developers orchestrating networks of local and cloud agents...'Jun 2, 2026Devin just got a new home.... The future isn't one agent helping write code. It's developers orchestrating networks of local and cloud agents, reviewing outputs, and directing execution at a higher level. Devin Desktop makes that workflow feel natural Consistently amazing work from the Cognition Eng team! #devinsnewhome
- Shared Cognition SDR job openings with his network in April 2026 ('Sharing for my network. DM me if interested!').Apr 6, 2026Sharing for my network. DM me if interested!
- Public headline says "Account Director, East @ Cognition".Aug 2025
- Worked the Cognition booth at AWS re:Invent in December 2025 ('We had a constant stream of people stopping by the Cognition booth'). Booth duty is how he shows up in Cognition's enterprise field marketing.Dec 8, 2025Back from a busy and genuinely fun week at AWS re:Invent. We had a constant stream of people stopping by the Cognition booth and I loved getting to connect with so many teams about what they are building and where the space is heading A few flicks to sum the week up for me: a lot of good conversations, a lot of curiosity from folks walking by, and a team that made the long days really enjoyable. If we didn't get a chance to meet in person, I am always happy to connect virtually. #cognition #aws #reinvent #agentic #ai
- Took a career break from Nov 2024 to Mar 2025, 'backpacking through 24 countries across Europe, North Africa, and South America', then joined Windsurf in April 2025.Nov 2024
Acquired by Cognition!
Spent several months backpacking through 24 countries across Europe, North Africa, and South America. It was a great opportunity to explore, meet new people, and experience places I'd only heard of.
What it truly means to be part of a rocketship Cognition's run rate has nearly doubled to $900M since our last round in May, just three months ago. Devin is truly becoming a crucial piece of how companies build software today. It’s hard to wrap your head around that kind of growth, but being surrounded by a team of this caliber makes it easy to see how this is possible. Taking a moment to appreciate how far we've come, but this is just the beginning #doingitall #seriesE https://lnkd.in/daEAq4yn
What’s cooler than Devin? Nothing. Next question. In the spirit of doing it all, Devin is taking over NYC, SF, Toronto, London, São Paulo, Tokyo, and airports across the US! If you spot Devin in the wild, DM me your best picture 🦦
Devin just got a new home.... The future isn't one agent helping write code. It's developers orchestrating networks of local and cloud agents, reviewing outputs, and directing execution at a higher level. Devin Desktop makes that workflow feel natural Consistently amazing work from the Cognition Eng team! #devinsnewhome
Billion with a B!! Grateful to be part of this generational organization 🚀 🚀 🚀
Amazing piece from Anthropic featuring Cognition co-founder Scott Wu on building one of the most influential AI software engineering companies in the world today. Worth the watch!
I'm super excited to announce that I’ve stepped into a new role as Account Director on the Emerging Enterprise team at Cognition! It's been a crazy ride since joining the Codeium team a year ago. This journey wouldn’t have been possible without the amazing leadership team, phenomenal AD partnerships, and the most elite SDR org in existence. I’ve been lucky to work with and learn from so many talented people over the past year. Massive thank you to everyone who has mentored, supported, and challenged me along the way. LFG 🚀 🚀
Windsurf 2.0 is here!! So excited for this evolution of the Cognition Platform. Since the acquisition, bringing these two incredible tools together has been a vision and today it happened. This is the future of software engineering...
Back to Vegas! I'll be at GCN '26 next week with the Cognition team. Always a great chance to connect, whether it's at our booth, grabbing coffee between sessions, or just catching up in the hallway. Feel free to reach out if you want to link up. Who else is heading to GCN next week?
linkedin.com/posts/dillonvargo_back-to-vegas-ill-be-at-gcn-26-next-activity-7449945798668242946-V9l2Sharing for my network. DM me if interested!
Back from a busy and genuinely fun week at AWS re:Invent. We had a constant stream of people stopping by the Cognition booth and I loved getting to connect with so many teams about what they are building and where the space is heading A few flicks to sum the week up for me: a lot of good conversations, a lot of curiosity from folks walking by, and a team that made the long days really enjoyable. If we didn't get a chance to meet in person, I am always happy to connect virtually. #cognition #aws #reinvent #agentic #ai
