# Jared Palmer

![Jared Palmer](/resources/cognition/portraits/jared-palmer.webp)

VP of Engineering @ Cognition  
Cognition  
United States

## At Cognition

- Role: Vice President of Engineering (Engineering)
- Joined: Jul 2026
- How they joined: Directly
- Before Cognition: VP, Engineering at Xbox, Microsoft
- Overlapped before Cognition with other Cognition people at: Vercel (https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/worked-together)

## Identity
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaredlpalmer
- X: @jaredpalmer
- GitHub: https://github.com/jaredpalmer
- Website: https://jaredpalmer.com
- Domain: cognition.ai

## Notes
- On the refreshed Devin Desktop (the merged IDE, formerly Windsurf, plus the agent): "Last week we released a totally refreshed Devin Desktop app. We unified our IDE and our agent-first experience so you can switch seamlessly between cloud and local.  This is the first of a few upcoming ships that unify our client surfaces so Devin feels and works like Devin no matter what device you’re on.  https://t.co/Ey34a0bSyv" (https://x.com/jaredpalmer/status/2114708440371142990, https://t.co/Ey34a0bSyv)
- Posted the SWE-2 launch himself, word for word: "Today we're releasing SWE-2, our latest AI coding model.

SWE-2 pushes the Pareto frontier of capability and cost, achieving 50.0% on FrontierCode 1.1 (within a point of Claude Fable 5.1) while being 64% cheaper. 

With SWE-2, our research team at Cognition post-trained Kimi-K3 with SWE-1.72's training infrastructure. For the first time, we scaled RL to the multi-trillion-parameter regime. The key addition for our new model was an RL algorithm that trains all reasoning-effort levels in a single run, advancing the whole cost–performance profile. We also applied our trustworthiness alignment to the model to reduce bias and security risks. All these advances have enabled SWE-2 to drastically mo" This shows he fronts Cognition's model-research launches, not only product surfaces. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaredlpalmer_today-were-releasing-swe-2-our-latest-ai-activity-7503859817808052225-dJJm)
- Cognition's official announcement, word for word: "Jared Palmer has joined Cognition as our VP of Engineering.

While at Vercel, Jared created v0, one of the first successful AI products to turn prompts into software, and the AI SDK, now the default way developers build AI apps in JavaScript. He then served as SVP of GitHub and later VP of Engineering at Xbox for Microsoft. Like many folks at Cognition, he is a builder at heart, having founded Turborepo (acquired by Vercel).

Building the AI teammate engineers deserve requires an obsession with building great software that people love. Few have dedicated their career to this more earnestly tha" (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cognition-ai-labs_jared-palmer-has-joined-cognition-as-our-activity-7500558616916287489-VGi7)
- Announced the move on LinkedIn, word for word: "Personal update: I’ve joined Cognition to lead engineering.

I’m grateful to Asha and everyone at Microsoft and Xbox for an amazing year. 

Excited for this next chapter" The thanks to Asha (Sharma) places his Xbox year under her directly before Cognition. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaredlpalmer_personal-update-ive-joined-cognition-to-activity-7485385042827857920-VVPw)
- Reflecting on Turborepo, which Vercel acquired, he wrote: "This was my initial vision and pitch for @turborepo: a  build system that worked the same way locally and in the cloud that felt completely idiomatic to your codebase, with as little configuration as possible.  Traditional YAML CI didn't make sense back in 2021 and it makes even less sense now. The biggest pushback against a turbo-first CI was that it was fairly painful to lift all the bash slop into real packages in your dependency graph, but of course now that's trivial for agents. Congrats to @anthonysheww @rauchg et al for executing." (https://x.com/jaredpalmer/status/2115553111976935898)
- On Devin Security 2.0: "We’re rolling out Devin Security 2.0, our new autonomous defense factory. We’re also committing hundreds of millions of dollars in free credits for enterprises for scanning, verification, and remediation." (https://x.com/jaredpalmer/status/2114750416852537544)
- On Devin Oncall, built from Cognition's own internal practice: "We productized how we handle incidents, bug reports, and alerts at @cognition with Devin Oncall. It’s completely changed how we work and also how we think about incident management and SRE. From investigations, to reproductions, to triage, rollout, root cause analysis and even postmortems, we do it all with Devin. Excited to share this with the world." (https://x.com/jaredpalmer/status/2110807812993380363)
- Cognition President Russell Kaplan cited Jared as one of three major exec hires (with Paul Grewal and a VP of Global Partnerships), quoting: "We recently announced some major exec hires at Cognition: Paul Grewal, our Chief Legal & Global Affairs Officer; Art L., our VP of Global Partnerships; and Jared Palmer, our VP of Engineering. I got tons of messages asking, basically: "what is Cognition's secret to recruiting?"

One of them is: we t" Kaplan is the clearest warm path into Jared's current leadership circle. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/russelljkaplan_we-recently-announced-some-major-exec-hires-activity-7490893044276195328--ait)
- Announced his Xbox role on LinkedIn: "Excited to share that I’m joining Xbox as VP, Engineering & Technical Advisor to CEO Asha Sharma.

I’ll be focused on building world-class tools, services, and experiences for developers and players across the Xbox ecosystem.

Grateful for the opportunity and excited to get to work.

https://lnkd.in/" He left about 2.5 months later for Cognition, making Xbox a short stint. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaredlpalmer_microsoft-xbox-ceo-overhauls-leadership-amid-activity-7457520539679711232-F60-, https://lnkd.in/)
- Reshared Cognition crossing $1B in annualized revenue with: "Huge milestone. Just getting started 🚀" (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaredlpalmer_cognition-has-crossed-1b-in-annualized-revenue-activity-7509270429040041984-YqQM)
- Reshared Cognition raising over $2B at a $48B valuation with: "Proud to be part of this incredible team 🚀" (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaredlpalmer_cognition-has-raised-over-2b-at-a-48b-valuation-activity-7503208651793481728-NncL)
- His most-starred original repos are TSDX (~11.5k stars, zero-config TypeScript package CLI, 2019) and Kev (~9.8k stars, decision models built on Qwen, created 2026-09-17, while at Cognition). He also has newer agent tooling: mogcli (agent-friendly CLI for M365, 2026-02) and agentik (composable AI agent runtime, 2026-02), built during his Microsoft period. (https://github.com/jaredpalmer?tab=repositories)
- Public headline says "VP of Engineering @ Cognition". (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaredlpalmer)
- On AI spend controls in Devin: "One-size-fits-all blanket usage caps on AI spend don’t make sense. On the other hand, yolo tokenmaxxing doesn’t scale either. We’ve come up with a better approach to cost control centered around efficiency. More efficient employees can have limits raised automatically (with a final upper bound still), while other spend requests go thru an admin review process." (https://x.com/jaredpalmer/status/2112231899812782418)
- Announced that ChatGPT subscriptions now work in Devin: "ICYMI: you can now use @DevinAI with your @ChatGPT  subscription. Once you link your account, your OpenAI model usage in your sessions counts against your ChatGPT Go, Plus, or Pro plan instead of your Devin quota. https://t.co/YKJ8OXnlPp" (https://x.com/jaredpalmer/status/2108586548484837459, https://t.co/YKJ8OXnlPp)
- GitHub (jaredpalmer, account since 2013-04, 201 public repos, ~10.8k followers) bio: "VP Engineering @ Cognition / Previously: VP @Microsoft, SVP @github, VP of AI @vercel, Founder @turborepo (acquired by Vercel)". The bio links jaredpalmer.com and @jaredpalmer on X, which confirms the accounts belong to the same person. (https://github.com/jaredpalmer)
- Previous roles include VP, Engineering at Xbox at Microsoft; VP of Product, CoreAI at Microsoft; VP of AI at Vercel; Director of Engineering, Developer Tools & Frameworks at Vercel; Principal Software Engineer at Vercel; Founder at Turborepo (acquired by Vercel); Co-Founder at The Palmer Group; Freelance Designer. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaredlpalmer)
- Education history includes Bachelor of Arts, Economics, Cornell University; The Dalton School. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaredlpalmer)
- Location is United States. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaredlpalmer)

## Experience
- Vice President of Engineering at Cognition - New York, New York, United States (Jul 2026 - Present)
- Angel Investor at Angel Investor (Oct 2021 - Present): Portfolio: Mistral, Suno, Granola, Core Automation, Datacurve, Polar.sh, Cubic, OpenCode, Ndea

Exits: Groq (acquired by NVIDIA), Bun (acquired by Anthropic)
- VP, Engineering at Xbox at Microsoft - New York, New York, United States (May 2026 - Jul 2026)
- VP of Product, CoreAI at Microsoft - New York, New York, United States (Oct 2025 - May 2026)
- VP of AI at Vercel - New York, United States (Mar 2023 - Jul 2025): I was responsible for all AI products, initiatives, and vibes at Vercel. I created v0.app, Vercel's text-to-app AI model and coding agent used by millions of developers. I also created the Vercel AI SDK, the world’s most popular AI agent toolkit for TypeScript as well as the Vercel AI Gateway, a multi-provider AI inference proxy and router.
- Director of Engineering, Developer Tools & Frameworks at Vercel - New York, United States (Aug 2022 - Mar 2023): I was Director of Engineering for Vercel's Developer Tools & Frameworks division responsible for core development of Next.js, React, Svelte, Turborepo, Turbopack, Webpack, and Vercel's other open source projects.
- Principal Software Engineer at Vercel - New York, United States (Oct 2021 - Aug 2022)
- Founder at Turborepo (acquired by Vercel) - United States (Jun 2020 - Oct 2021): Turborepo is a build system for JavaScript and TypeScript.
- Co-Founder at The Palmer Group - New York, United States (Feb 2015 - Feb 2019): I ran a boutique software development and design studio as part of my family's digital consulting company. My clients included Facebook, Microsoft, Calvin Klein, Unilever, Publicis, Travelers, and Fox.
- Freelance Designer - New York, New York, United States (May 2013 - Aug 2015): I designed and protoyped mobile and web applications for Fox and Unilever

## Education
- Cornell University - Bachelor of Arts, Economics: Uri M Possen Memorial Prize Winner for Best Economics Honors Thesis
- The Dalton School

## Sources
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaredlpalmer
- https://x.com/jaredpalmer
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- https://www.linkedin.com/company/cognition-ai-labs/posts
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- https://api.github.com/users/jaredpalmer
- https://jaredpalmer.com/about
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- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cognition-ai-labs_jared-palmer-has-joined-cognition-as-our-activity-7500558616916287489-VGi7
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- https://lnkd.in/
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- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaredlpalmer_cognition-has-raised-over-2b-at-a-48b-valuation-activity-7503208651793481728-NncL
- https://github.com/jaredpalmer?tab=repositories
- https://x.com/jaredpalmer/status/2112231899812782418
- https://x.com/jaredpalmer/status/2108586548484837459
- https://t.co/YKJ8OXnlPp
- https://github.com/jaredpalmer


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