# Dillon Vargo

Enterprise Account Director (East) at Cognition; joined via the Windsurf/Codeium acquisition  
Cognition  
New York, New York, United States

## At Cognition

- Role: GTM | Account Director, Enterprise (Sales/GTM)
- Joined: Apr 2025
- How they joined: With Windsurf (https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/acquisitions/windsurf)
- Before Windsurf: Travel, Career Break
- 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/dillonvargo
- Domain: cognition.com

## Notes
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/william-mccarthy-9994b6ba_excited-to-share-ive-taken-on-a-leadership-activity-7491272219017261056-8EIH)
- Has been at Cognition since August 2025 as 'GTM | Account Director, Enterprise', based in New York; his headline now reads 'Account Director, East @ Cognition'. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dillonvargo)
- Joined Windsurf (formerly Codeium) in a GTM role in April 2025 in Austin, TX; his LinkedIn entry for the role reads 'Acquired by Cognition!'. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dillonvargo)
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dillonvargo_doingitall-seriese-activity-7503190635802406912-Tzaq)
- 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.' (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dillonvargo_today-we-announced-windsurf-20-our-biggest-activity-7450310314505637888-yLwk)
- 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. (https://cognition.com/blog/windsurf)
- 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). (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dillonvargo)
- 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...' (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dillonvargo_introducing-devin-desktop-the-next-generation-activity-7467663665450774528-OnS6)
- Shared Cognition SDR job openings with his network in April 2026 ('Sharing for my network. DM me if interested!'). (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dillonvargo_were-hiring-sdrs-at-cognition-if-youre-activity-7446953843977785344-EYRX)
- Public headline says "Account Director, East @ Cognition". (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dillonvargo)
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dillonvargo_cognition-aws-reinvent-activity-7403875896757112832-Nu0L)
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dillonvargo)
- Promoted Cognition's 2026 out-of-home 'doing it all' Devin campaign in NYC, SF, Toronto, London, Sao Paulo, Tokyo and US airports: 'What's cooler than Devin? Nothing. Next question.' (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dillonvargo_whats-cooler-than-devin-nothing-next-activity-7495952552480542720-vYCK)
- Reacted to a Cognition milestone in May 2026 with 'Billion with a B!! Grateful to be part of this generational organization'. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dillonvargo_more-devins-in-more-places-cognition-activity-7465430040000978947-6K7v)
- Previous roles include GTM at Windsurf; Travel at Career Break; Sales Team Lead | Door-to-Door Team at Moxie Pest Control; Direct Sales Representative | Door-to-Door Team at Moxie Pest Control. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dillonvargo)
- Shared Anthropic's 'The Problem Solvers' piece featuring Cognition co-founder Scott Wu in May 2026, calling it 'Worth the watch!' (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dillonvargo_the-problem-solvers-scott-wu-at-cognition-activity-7462956793292296192-IOjy)
- Has 3,537 LinkedIn connections and 3,596 followers. Most of his feed is reposts of Cognition announcements (Devin Oncall, Code Scans, the Citi deployment, Devin on Mac). (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dillonvargo)
- Location is New York, New York, United States. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dillonvargo)

## Experience
- GTM | Account Director, Enterprise at Cognition - New York, New York, United States (Aug 2025 - Present)
- GTM at Windsurf - Austin, Texas, United States (Apr 2025 - Jul 2025): Acquired by Cognition!
- Travel at Career Break (Nov 2024 - Mar 2025): 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.
- Sales Team Lead | Door-to-Door Team at Moxie Pest Control - San Diego, California, United States (Aug 2022 - Nov 2024)
- Direct Sales Representative | Door-to-Door Team at Moxie Pest Control - San Diego, California, United States (May 2022 - Aug 2022)

## Education
- UC Santa Barbara - BA, Communication / Technology Management
- Santa Barbara City College - AS, Business Administration and Management

## Sources
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/dillonvargo
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/cognition-ai-labs/posts
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/william-mccarthy-9994b6ba_excited-to-share-ive-taken-on-a-leadership-activity-7491272219017261056-8EIH
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/john-vargo-709693197_growthmindset-humanperformance-team-activity-7452510290887356416-EepA
- https://cognition.com/blog/windsurf
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/astonmartinf1/posts
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/tbpn/posts
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/mercedes-benz_ag/posts
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/dillonvargo?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_profile%3AACoAAEGP4ToBKZTuSaDzfC0bCwfdNPr0oMxOn2M
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandra-mysak-00883445?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_profile%3AACoAAAmOPggBvQQot1yc_iT6GUo1-WPsbw8Pyzc
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dillonvargo_im-super-excited-to-announce-that-ive-stepped-activity-7458530195738677248-Vqs9
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dillonvargo_doingitall-seriese-activity-7503190635802406912-Tzaq
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dillonvargo_today-we-announced-windsurf-20-our-biggest-activity-7450310314505637888-yLwk
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dillonvargo_introducing-devin-desktop-the-next-generation-activity-7467663665450774528-OnS6
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dillonvargo_were-hiring-sdrs-at-cognition-if-youre-activity-7446953843977785344-EYRX
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dillonvargo_back-to-vegas-ill-be-at-gcn-26-next-activity-7449945798668242946-V9l2
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dillonvargo_cognition-aws-reinvent-activity-7403875896757112832-Nu0L
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dillonvargo_whats-cooler-than-devin-nothing-next-activity-7495952552480542720-vYCK
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dillonvargo_more-devins-in-more-places-cognition-activity-7465430040000978947-6K7v
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dillonvargo_the-problem-solvers-scott-wu-at-cognition-activity-7462956793292296192-IOjy


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