Engineering · Data Infra & Analytics Lead

Federico Marcos

“Data Infra & Analytics Lead @ Cognition | Previously Data Scientist & Engineer @Scale AI”

Joined
Mar 2024
How they joined
Directly
Before Cognition
Scale AISenior Software Engineer
Status
Current
Overlapped before Cognition

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Researched with Autumn · 2026-11-04
Details
LocationMontevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay
Company sitecognition.ai
LanguagesEspañol, Inglés
UniversityUniversidad Nacional de La Plata
Data ScienceData AnalyticsData EngineeringTypeScriptnodejsAmazon Web Services (AWS)PhysicsMathematicsPythonHTMLJavaScriptLinuxComputational PhysicsCascading Style Sheets (CSS)DjangojQuerySASSNode.jsGithubGitBootstrapTheoretical PhysicsWeb DevelopmentEnglishPostgreSQLMongoDBObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)Software DevelopmentProgrammingTeachingMachine LearningKerasTensorflowNeural NetworksReactQuantum Computing
Notes
  • X post, verbatim: "Proud to say I built the DeepWiki MCP. Standing on the shoulders of giants!" DeepWiki's official MCP server (announced by Silas Alberti in May 2025, featured by OpenAI) is his work.Feb 11, 2026Proud to say I built the DeepWiki MCP. Standing on the shoulders of giants!
  • Cognition describes DANA (Data Analyst Agent) as a specialized Devin that "connects to our data warehouse through MCP" and answers Slack questions like "why did signups drop Tuesday?"; given his MCP and analytics-blog work and Data Infra & Analytics Lead title, DANA sits squarely in his area.2026
  • LinkedIn post (2025-07-23), verbatim: "Happy to ship what I've been building for the last couple of weeks, Devin now connects to all of your favorite tools!" and "Feeling very bullish on MCP!" He built Devin's MCP (Model Context Protocol) integration/Marketplace, which launched the same day.Jul 23, 2025Happy to ship what I've been building for the last couple of weeks, Devin now connects to all of your favorite tools! ... Feeling very bullish on MCP!
  • He reposted Scott Wu's Jan 2026 note on 'Dana' (Devin ANAlyst) as a team-wide win for running usage and analytics queries.Jan 11, 2026
  • X post, verbatim: "Today I shipped something different from code: a blog post on turning Devin into your personal data analyst!" alongside a LinkedIn post: "Wrote a really cool blogpost showing how to get Devin to answer all your analytics questions today, pulling insights from all your data sources right from Slack!"Aug 28, 2025Today I shipped something different from code: a blog post on turning Devin into your personal data analyst!
  • Cognition colleague Theodor Marcu credited the Devin MCP launch to "Sara Xiang + Federico Marcos + Jeffrey Ling really cooked with this launch", and tied it to the Windsurf deal: "And with Windsurf, we'll cook even harder than ever before". Sara Xiang and Jeffrey Ling are his closest visible launch collaborators.Jul 23, 2025
  • His most-starred open-source repo is marcosfede/algorithms (1130 stars): "Solved algorithms and data structures problems in many languages", the visible trace of his algorithmic/competitive-programming practice.Oct 13, 2026
  • He is listed as a contributor to CognitionAI/metabase-mcp-server, Cognition's open-source Metabase MCP server.2026
  • He joined Cognition in Mar 2024, the month Devin was publicly launched, and was there through the July 2025 Windsurf acquisition. A colleague's launch post the same week said "with Windsurf, we'll cook even harder"; nothing public shows him moving to Windsurf work.Jul 2025
  • At Scale AI he wrote mongoose-query-logger, a "Mongoose plugin for query execution logging and explaining"; his LinkedIn says he created an open-source tool to log and monitor expensive and slow MongoDB queries while tech-leading Scale's customer dashboard.Jun 2023
  • Public headline says "Data Infra & Analytics Lead @ Cognition | Previously Data Scientist & Engineer @Scale AI".
  • X post about Cognition's culture, verbatim: "When someone asks what the bar is like at Cog, I'm gonna link to this tweet".Sep 3, 2026When someone asks what the bar is like at Cog, I'm gonna link to this tweet

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