# Jared Zoneraich ![Jared Zoneraich](/resources/cognition/portraits/jared-zoneraich.webp) National Design Studio & Cognition National Design Studio New York, New York, United States ## At Cognition - Role: Builder in Residence (Engineering) - Joined: Apr 2026 - How they joined: Directly - Before Cognition: Founder & CEO, PromptLayer - Overlapped before Cognition with other Cognition people at: UC Berkeley (https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/worked-together) ## Identity - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/imjaredz - X: @imjaredz - GitHub: https://github.com/jzone3 - Website: https://imjaredz.com/ ## Notes - Details Cognition's hiring philosophy and the unusually high concentration of ex-founders, revealing company culture and growth. Quote: "We did the math and there are over 130 ex-founders employed at Cognition. That's over 25% of our entire company!" (https://x.com/imjaredz/status/2112587091758424384) - Jared Zoneraich is the cofounder and CEO of PromptLayer, described as a platform designed to streamline prompt engineering workflows for teams. (https://every.to/podcast/how-to-win-with-prompt-engineering) - Explains Cognition's early access to Devin as a competitive advantage and links to a conversation about building Devin. Quote: "We were the first company with access to Devin" (https://x.com/imjaredz/status/2107484271757922484) - Jared Zoneraich posted on X as @imjaredz that Devin had cracked three more unsolved problems, writing "Proud to say that Devin has cracked three more unsolved problems today." (https://x.com/imjaredz/status/2080088341262033273) - Jared Zoneraich is the CEO and Co-founder of PromptLayer. (https://tatiyants.com/podcast/exception-handlers-episode-9/) - In 2026, Jared Zoneraich joined Cognition to work on Devin, remaining a PromptLayer adviser as Jonathan Pedoeem became chief executive. (https://ai.engineer/speakers/jared-zoneraich) - Jared Zoneraich is the Founder & CEO of PromptLayer, described as "the workbench for AI engineering." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFKCzGlAU6Q) - Jared Zoneraich is a co-founder of PromptLayer. (https://blog.promptlayer.com/promptlayer-announces-our-4-8m-fundraise/) - Jared Zoneraich is a co-founder of New York-based PromptLayer, which launched a tool to help app developers manage the prompting process around two years before February 2025. (https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/07/promptlayer-is-building-tools-to-put-non-techies-in-the-drivers-seat-of-ai-app-development/) - Jared Zoneraich co-founded PromptLayer, which he says was built by accident: "We built PromptLayer by accident." (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/imjaredz_we-built-promptlayer-by-accident-december-activity-7361049960462655489) - Jared Zoneraich was Founder & CEO of PromptLayer from 2021 to 2026, where he "Built the first developer platform for prompt engineering." (https://imjaredz.com/) - Jared Zoneraich works at Cognition on New Projects, "Building Devin — the first AI software engineer." (https://imjaredz.com/) - Jared Zoneraich is a builder in residence at Cognition, where he works on the AI software engineer Devin. (https://ai.engineer/speakers/jared-zoneraich) - Jared Zoneraich is the co-founder and former chief executive of PromptLayer. (https://ai.engineer/speakers/jared-zoneraich) - Jared Zoneraich is a Builder in Residence at Cognition, the makers of Devin, described as "the first and most advanced AI software engineer." (https://events.datadoghq.com/summits/datadog-summit-san-francisco/speakers/jared-zoneraich/) - Before Cognition, Jared Zoneraich founded PromptLayer, which the page describes as "the first developer platform for prompt engineering." (https://events.datadoghq.com/summits/datadog-summit-san-francisco/speakers/jared-zoneraich/) - Jared Zoneraich is a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Cognition, where he builds infrastructure for machine-written code. (https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@jared-zoneraich) - Announces FrontierCode 2.0, Cognition's home-built coding model benchmark that judges code quality. Quote: "Introducing FrontierCode 2.0. The second generation of our home built coding model benchmark." (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/imjaredz_introducing-frontiercode-20-the-second-activity-7520906892244627457-3-iz) - Announces the launch of Devin Security 2.0 powered by Mythos and other frontier cyber models. Quote: "Today we are launching Devin Security 2.0." (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/imjaredz_skin-in-the-game-we-are-optimists-defenders-activity-7520511918269157376-7MQt) - Jared Zoneraich stated that Cognition employs over 130 ex-founders, which he said is over 25% of the entire company. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/imjaredz_18-million-miles-traveled-400-red-hoodies-activity-7518353128849768448-JcGO) - Announces American Forge, a residency program created in partnership between National Design Studio and Cognition. Quote: "Announcing American Forge." (https://x.com/imjaredz/status/2111077992013181151) - Jared Zoneraich worked on Rampart Edge, described as the smallest privacy filter model at 1.45MB that can run on almost any device. (https://ndstudio.gov/posts/introducing-rampart-edge) - Personal career milestone post about being sworn in to serve, plus National Design Studio launch and Cognition team events. Quote: "Sworn in to serve my country." (https://x.com/imjaredz/status/2106120050558062928) - Jared Zoneraich described his methodology as showing Devin the original tweet and telling it to find similar problems and crack them, saying "The flood gates are open." (https://x.com/imjaredz/status/2080088341262033273) - Jared Zoneraich reported that Devin refuted Graffiti Conjecture 154, open for roughly 40 years, by finding a counterexample gluing a 50-clique to a 70-edge path (n=120) with the violation proven in Lean. (https://x.com/imjaredz/status/2080088341262033273) - Jared Zoneraich reported that Devin proved Graffiti Conjectures 39 and 40 from the 1988 Graffiti program with a 4-line proof chaining Popoviciu's inequality with a 2020 spectral lemma by Geng–Wu–Wang. (https://x.com/imjaredz/status/2080088341262033273) - Jared Zoneraich reported that Devin refuted Brandt's Regular Supergraph Problem from West's open problems list with a 9-vertex counterexample certified by an exact Farkas infeasibility certificate. (https://x.com/imjaredz/status/2080088341262033273) - Jared Zoneraich described his process of having a few Devins research good problems similar to the one the OP solved, picking the best problems, then spinning up about 5 Devins in Ultra mode per problem to find and verify solutions machine-checked in Lean. (https://x.com/imjaredz/status/2080088341262033273) - Jared Zoneraich joined Cognition, writing that its 'AI Productivity Guarantee' is 'the one thing about Cognition that has been most novel to me since joining.' (https://x.com/imjaredz/status/2071294679824363979) - Jared Zoneraich gave a talk titled "Running AI-Written Software in Production" (35:26) at WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America 2026. (https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@jared-zoneraich) - Jared Zoneraich gave an AI Engineer talk titled "How Claude Code Works" that was published on 2025-12-26 and runs 1:05:42. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFKCzGlAU6Q) - Jared Zoneraich's talk argued that Claude Code's success stems from "a single-threaded 'Master Loop' paired with highly capable models" rather than complex agentic frameworks. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFKCzGlAU6Q) - Jared Zoneraich and Jonathan Pedoeem originally built PromptLayer for their own personal AI projects. (https://blog.promptlayer.com/promptlayer-announces-our-4-8m-fundraise/) - PromptLayer closed a $4.8 million seed raise led by Ivan Bercovich (ScOp Venture Capital), with Peter Boyce II (Stellation Capital) participating again after funding their pre-seed. (https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/07/promptlayer-is-building-tools-to-put-non-techies-in-the-drivers-seat-of-ai-app-development/) - Jared Zoneraich gave a conference talk titled "How Claude Code Works" at AI Engineer Code 2025, running 1:05:43. (https://ai.engineer/speakers/jared-zoneraich) - Jared Zoneraich built PromptLayer as a platform on which non-technical experts can manage, deploy, and evaluate prompts quickly. (https://every.to/podcast/how-to-win-with-prompt-engineering) - Jared Zoneraich and his co-founder built a simple internal tool to manage prompts and track which versions worked after repeatedly hitting that problem. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/imjaredz_we-built-promptlayer-by-accident-december-activity-7361049960462655489) - Jared Zoneraich won the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon in 2013 with Learn to Drive, an "In-car app to teach new drivers" that was featured and invited to speak. (https://imjaredz.com/) - Jared Zoneraich is a Member of the Technical Staff at the National Design Studio, which the page says was "Created by Executive Order 14338." (https://imjaredz.com/) - At PromptLayer, Jared Zoneraich "Raised $5M+ from great investors" and "Grew to $1M ARR and a team of 15." (https://imjaredz.com/) - With Jonathan Pedoeem, Jared Zoneraich co-founded PromptLayer, developing a prompt registry and version-control system alongside tools for evaluation, request logging, experimentation, and production monitoring. (https://ai.engineer/speakers/jared-zoneraich) - Prior to founding PromptLayer, Jared Zoneraich held engineering roles at Tecton, which was acquired by Databricks. (https://events.datadoghq.com/summits/datadog-summit-san-francisco/speakers/jared-zoneraich/) - Jared Zoneraich is listed as a speaker at Datadog Summit San Francisco with a keynote session titled "Devin Debugging Devin – How Cognition's Agents Improve Themselves using Datadog's Observability" scheduled 10:00 AM — 11:30 AM. (https://events.datadoghq.com/summits/datadog-summit-san-francisco/speakers/jared-zoneraich/) - Jared Zoneraich said of ex-founders at Cognition: "if you do it right these ex-founders are the highest-agency people you can ever hire." (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/imjaredz_18-million-miles-traveled-400-red-hoodies-activity-7518353128849768448-JcGO) - Jared Zoneraich described Cognition as "so special and fast-moving" because its hiring bar is so high that trust is also very high. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/imjaredz_18-million-miles-traveled-400-red-hoodies-activity-7518353128849768448-JcGO) - Jared Zoneraich co-authored the National Design Studio blog post 'Rampart Edge: On-device privacy filter, now 10x smaller' with Edward Coristine. (https://ndstudio.gov/posts/introducing-rampart-edge) - Jared Zoneraich states that Cognition is an independent company, not a model lab, saying 'Because we are not a model lab with $100B+ raised and $1T+ of data center commitments, we don't need to "catch up" by selling increasingly more expensive tokens.' (https://x.com/imjaredz/status/2071294679824363979) - Jared Zoneraich describes Cognition's 'AI Productivity Guarantee': if Devin delivers less engineering value than you're paying for, Cognition will fund your usage until it does, up to $10 million. (https://x.com/imjaredz/status/2071294679824363979) - Jared Zoneraich was interviewed by Alex and Bill on the Exception Handlers podcast episode titled "Interview with Jared Zoneraich: Agents and the Future of AI Systems." (https://tatiyants.com/podcast/exception-handlers-episode-9/) - Jared Zoneraich gave the Datadog Summit SF keynote titled "Devin Debugging Devin" in 2026. (https://imjaredz.com/) - Jared Zoneraich said PromptLayer is based in New York and that "we launched the product 3 years ago." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFKCzGlAU6Q) - Jared Zoneraich said his company rebuilt its engineering org around Claude Code with the rule: "if you can complete something in less than an hour using cloud code. Just do it." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFKCzGlAU6Q) - Jared Zoneraich's talk contrasted Claude Code's "give it tools and get out of the way" approach with earlier brittle DAG-based architectures. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFKCzGlAU6Q) - Jared Zoneraich's talk broke down Claude Code's internal tools (Bash, FileEdit, Grep), the "Todo" planning mechanism, and the role of sandboxing and system prompts. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFKCzGlAU6Q) - Jared Zoneraich later worked at Tecton. (https://blog.promptlayer.com/promptlayer-announces-our-4-8m-fundraise/) - Jared Zoneraich is a TechCrunch Disrupt hackathon alum, pictured above left with co-founder Jonathan Pedoeem. (https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/07/promptlayer-is-building-tools-to-put-non-techies-in-the-drivers-seat-of-ai-app-development/) - Zoneraich says the core of PromptLayer's product is a "prompt registry," explaining: "It's CMS, it's version control for prompts." (https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/07/promptlayer-is-building-tools-to-put-non-techies-in-the-drivers-seat-of-ai-app-development/) - PromptLayer announced a $4.8 million seed round in 2025. (https://ai.engineer/speakers/jared-zoneraich) - Jared Zoneraich argued in the episode that prompt engineering isn't becoming obsolete, saying he believes prompt engineering isn't becoming obsolete. (https://every.to/podcast/how-to-win-with-prompt-engineering) - Recaps a podcast appearance discussing prompt engineering and AI products. Quote: "Was fun to step out of the IDE and talk about the things we are learning at @promptlayer" (https://x.com/imjaredz/status/1805374705035366716) - When Jared Zoneraich and his co-founder posted their "prompt management thing" on Twitter, it exploded. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/imjaredz_we-built-promptlayer-by-accident-december-activity-7361049960462655489) - In December 2022, Jared Zoneraich and his co-founder had a whiteboard full of AI startup ideas they wanted to build fast. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/imjaredz_we-built-promptlayer-by-accident-december-activity-7361049960462655489) - Jared Zoneraich was a Software Engineer at Tecton in 2021, and Tecton was acquired by Databricks. (https://imjaredz.com/) - Jared Zoneraich earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 2019. (https://imjaredz.com/) - Public headline says "National Design Studio & Cognition". (https://www.linkedin.com/in/imjaredz) - Jared Zoneraich studied electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. (https://ai.engineer/speakers/jared-zoneraich) - At Cognition, Jared Zoneraich spends most of his time building product and sharing learnings with the developer community. (https://events.datadoghq.com/summits/datadog-summit-san-francisco/speakers/jared-zoneraich/) - Jared Zoneraich focuses on the messy reality of deploying and debugging AI-generated applications that lack human context. (https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@jared-zoneraich) - Jared Zoneraich's work examines how the production stack must evolve, addressing the gap between cheap code generation and reliable deployment. (https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@jared-zoneraich) - GitHub account jzone3 (created 2012-04-10) has 33 public repos and 75 followers; top own repos by stars: markdown-quicklook (19*, Swift), new-media-writer (15*, Swift), solving-math-problems (9*, Python), hackBCA (4*, CSS), ClassMatch (4*, Python). (https://github.com/jzone3) - Shows his role hosting Devin Dinners with engineers and startups in NY and SF. Quote: "One of my favorite things about this job is hosting Devin Dinners with cool engineers and startups" (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/imjaredz_one-of-my-favorite-things-about-this-job-activity-7520914933467963393-CUki) - Jared Zoneraich said new hires at Cognition are basically told on day 1 "alright go help us get to the next revenue milestone." (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/imjaredz_18-million-miles-traveled-400-red-hoodies-activity-7518353128849768448-JcGO) - Jared Zoneraich said he is "not sure there will ever be such a founder-friendly company again," calling it "too surreal." (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/imjaredz_18-million-miles-traveled-400-red-hoodies-activity-7518353128849768448-JcGO) - Jared Zoneraich's team previously ran Rampart in production, which was a 14.7MB privacy filter that blocked 11.8% of ordinary messages on their test set with every PII-type enabled. (https://ndstudio.gov/posts/introducing-rampart-edge) - Jared Zoneraich says Cognition's only calculus is 'Is this the best model for the job?', 'Can we make the user more productive?', and 'Can we save the user money?' (https://x.com/imjaredz/status/2071294679824363979) - Jared Zoneraich says Cognition quickly grabbed 'all the big banks and giant Fortune 100 enterprises as customers,' attributing it to aligned incentives. (https://x.com/imjaredz/status/2071294679824363979) - In the podcast, Jared Zoneraich discussed the evolution of agentic AI, described as going "from DAGs to agentic loops." (https://tatiyants.com/podcast/exception-handlers-episode-9/) - Jared Zoneraich wrote "Rampart Edge: Open source on-device privacy model" for the National Design Studio in 2026. (https://imjaredz.com/) - Jared Zoneraich wrote about the "American Forge Residency" on the Cognition blog in 2026. (https://imjaredz.com/) - Jared Zoneraich said PromptLayer is "processing millions of LM requests a day." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFKCzGlAU6Q) - Jared Zoneraich stated his talk was "not affiliated with Anthropic" and that "they don't pay me. I would take money, but they don't." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFKCzGlAU6Q) - Jared Zoneraich said PromptLayer's core thesis is belief in "rigorous prompt engineering, rigorous agent developing development" with product and engineering teams both involved. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFKCzGlAU6Q) - A quick tweet from Jared Zoneraich (@imjaredz) caused PromptLayer to blow up, per the post: "A quick tweet later and the product blew up." (https://blog.promptlayer.com/promptlayer-announces-our-4-8m-fundraise/) - PromptLayer raised $4.8 million in seed funding led by Ivan Bercovich at ScOp VC and Peter Boyce II at Stellation Capital. (https://blog.promptlayer.com/promptlayer-announces-our-4-8m-fundraise/) - PromptLayer received TechCrunch coverage in an article dated 2025-02-07 about building tools to put non-techies in the drivers seat of AI app development. (https://imjaredz.com/) - Jared Zoneraich recounted that PromptLayer's founders had been playing around with AI chatbots themselves and wanted something to keep track of their own prompting. (https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/07/promptlayer-is-building-tools-to-put-non-techies-in-the-drivers-seat-of-ai-app-development/) - PromptLayer put its MVP out on X "on a bit of a whim" and the tool made a splash, so the founders kept building. (https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/07/promptlayer-is-building-tools-to-put-non-techies-in-the-drivers-seat-of-ai-app-development/) - PromptLayer's seed round included angels and AI founders and operators Michael Akilian, Joshua Browder, Byrne Hobart, Romain Huet, Josh Kamdjou, Logan Kilpatrick, Ben Lang, Alex Oppenheimer, Gokul Rajaram, Gabriel Stengel, and Luis Voloch. (https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/07/promptlayer-is-building-tools-to-put-non-techies-in-the-drivers-seat-of-ai-app-development/) - Zoneraich described the prompt registry: "You have a prompt, you create a new version, you could see why versions are different, and then you could choose which version's your production version … That's like the center of our product." (https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/07/promptlayer-is-building-tools-to-put-non-techies-in-the-drivers-seat-of-ai-app-development/) - Jared Zoneraich spoke on "How Claude Code Works" at the AI Engineer Conference in 2025. (https://imjaredz.com/) - Jared Zoneraich's thesis concerns the nature of problems that the prompt engineering debate misses. (https://every.to/podcast/how-to-win-with-prompt-engineering) - Jared Zoneraich recommends prompt engineering best practices around prompts, evals, and datasets. (https://every.to/podcast/how-to-win-with-prompt-engineering) - Jared Zoneraich believes the interfaces of AI tools in the future will be more general purpose in nature. (https://every.to/podcast/how-to-win-with-prompt-engineering) - Three months after starting, Jared Zoneraich and his co-founder still had not built a single idea from their whiteboard. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/imjaredz_we-built-promptlayer-by-accident-december-activity-7361049960462655489) - Jared Zoneraich had a "Prompt Engineering Conversation with Stephen Wolfram" in 2023. (https://imjaredz.com/) - Jared Zoneraich was a Software Engineer at Implisit in 2016, and Implisit was acquired by Salesforce. (https://imjaredz.com/) - Jared Zoneraich worked in the Office of the CEO at reddit in 2015. (https://imjaredz.com/) http://cognition.com/; this comes from the profile summary and preserves the person's own positioning. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/imjaredz, http://cognition.com/) - Jared Zoneraich worked at Google, Facebook, and machine-learning infrastructure company Tecton. (https://ai.engineer/speakers/jared-zoneraich) - Jared Zoneraich studied at UC Berkeley. (https://events.datadoghq.com/summits/datadog-summit-san-francisco/speakers/jared-zoneraich/) - Tribute to a mentor/leader named Ed. Quote: "It’s been an absolute honor to work under you, Ed." (https://x.com/imjaredz/status/2116660222622347327) - Jared Zoneraich attributed Cognition's founder-friendly nature partly to "the massive TAM of coding agents." (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/imjaredz_18-million-miles-traveled-400-red-hoodies-activity-7518353128849768448-JcGO) - Jared Zoneraich's team set the Rampart Edge training objective as the smallest browser download reaching at least 95% catch at no more than 1% false blocks with latency under 100 milliseconds. (https://ndstudio.gov/posts/introducing-rampart-edge) - Jared Zoneraich's team chose Microsoft's public xtremedistil-l6-h256 encoder as the base model for Rampart Edge and reduced its size by 35x. (https://ndstudio.gov/posts/introducing-rampart-edge) - Jared Zoneraich's team tuned Rampart Edge specifically for America.gov use-cases. (https://ndstudio.gov/posts/introducing-rampart-edge) - Jared Zoneraich's team reported Rampart Edge catches 98.2% of messages with personal information versus 87.5% for the original Rampart on a frozen test set of 30,863 whole messages. (https://ndstudio.gov/posts/introducing-rampart-edge) - Jared Zoneraich's team trained and tested on hand-redacted documents including the Clinton emails, FBI Vault scans, federal court filings, inspector general reports, ICE FOIA releases and CFPB complaints, with Rampart Edge catching 98.4% on the held-out quarter. (https://ndstudio.gov/posts/introducing-rampart-edge) - Jared Zoneraich posted "just solved another unsolved problem btw" in the thread. (https://x.com/imjaredz/status/2080088341262033273) - Jared Zoneraich describes Cognition's post-training research as 'building cheap + specifically tuned coding models.' (https://x.com/imjaredz/status/2071294679824363979) - Jared Zoneraich says Cognition works on new coding evals called FrontierCode benchmarks. (https://x.com/imjaredz/status/2071294679824363979) - Jared Zoneraich says Cognition does model routing, 'a lot behind-the-scenes of Devin's cloud harness.' (https://x.com/imjaredz/status/2071294679824363979) - Jared Zoneraich claims Devin has 'the most complete & robust spend controls of any coding agent on the market.' (https://x.com/imjaredz/status/2071294679824363979) - Jared Zoneraich says everything in Cognition's GTM motion is oriented around ROI, with every conversation rooted in the actual engineering tickets being taken off the backlog. (https://x.com/imjaredz/status/2071294679824363979) - Jared Zoneraich published "The reason Devin is having such a comeback" in 2026. (https://imjaredz.com/) - Jared Zoneraich published "Solving ~40 year old open math problems" in 2026. (https://imjaredz.com/) - Jared Zoneraich said he spends a lot of his time "dog fooding the product" and described a founder's job as "half like kicking off agents and then half just using my own product to build agents." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFKCzGlAU6Q) - Jared Zoneraich said he got in trouble with Anthropic over the talk's title, and the host noted the talk is "not officially endorsed by" Anthropic. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFKCzGlAU6Q) - Jared Zoneraich said he is "a big user of all the coding agents" and was curious "what made coding agents finally be good." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFKCzGlAU6Q) - Zoneraich said PromptLayer's platform expands on the registry with "tests on top of that, or logs on top of that of when you use which prompt, or A/B tests between the prompts, and kind of like deeper insights into which version is the best one." (https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/07/promptlayer-is-building-tools-to-put-non-techies-in-the-drivers-seat-of-ai-app-development/) - Jared Zoneraich's X handle is @imjaredz. (https://every.to/podcast/how-to-win-with-prompt-engineering) - Jared Zoneraich spoke with Dan Shipper for about an hour about writing a good prompt and the future of AI tools. (https://every.to/podcast/how-to-win-with-prompt-engineering) - Jared Zoneraich was an Associate at Alsop Louie Partners in 2020. (https://imjaredz.com/) - Jared Zoneraich built Montalvo Analytics in 2020, providing "Data analytics for America's largest reform campaigns." (https://imjaredz.com/) - Jared Zoneraich did Software Engineering at Facebook in 2019. (https://imjaredz.com/) - Jared Zoneraich did Software Engineering at Google in 2017. (https://imjaredz.com/) - Previous roles include Founder & CEO at PromptLayer; Software Engineer at Tecton; Associate at Alsop-Louie Partners; Software Engineering Intern at Facebook; Cyber Research Intern at IronNet Cybersecurity; Software Engineering Intern at Google; Software Developer at Implisit (acquired by Salesforce); Partnerships Intern at Major League Hacking. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/imjaredz) - Jared Zoneraich was an associate at venture firm Alsop Louie Partners. (https://ai.engineer/speakers/jared-zoneraich) - Jared Zoneraich maintains the PromptLayer Python package. (https://ai.engineer/speakers/jared-zoneraich) - Jared Zoneraich's product philosophy centers on collaboration between engineers and domain experts such as lawyers, physicians, and product managers shaping prompts and evaluating outputs. (https://ai.engineer/speakers/jared-zoneraich) - Jared Zoneraich noted the added benefit that they were their own first customer of PromptLayer. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/imjaredz_we-built-promptlayer-by-accident-december-activity-7361049960462655489) - Jared Zoneraich's X handle listed on the post is @imjaredz. (https://ndstudio.gov/posts/introducing-rampart-edge) - Jared Zoneraich's team released the package @nationaldesignstudio/rampart-edge for use with onnxruntime-web. (https://ndstudio.gov/posts/introducing-rampart-edge) - Jared Zoneraich wrote "I got totally nerd sniped today" while working on the problems. (https://x.com/imjaredz/status/2080088341262033273) - Jared Zoneraich attributes Devin's comeback to token spend being scaled and open source now being really good, writing 'Frankly I think this is the reason Devin is having such a comeback.' (https://x.com/imjaredz/status/2071294679824363979) - The Exception Handlers podcast episode featuring Jared Zoneraich was produced by the LA CTO Forum. (https://tatiyants.com/podcast/exception-handlers-episode-9/) - Jared Zoneraich published "Make Money, Make No Mistakes" in 2026. (https://imjaredz.com/) - Jared Zoneraich is reachable online as "I'm Jared Z on X" (https://x.com/imjaredz), with LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/imjaredz and site https://imjaredz.com/. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFKCzGlAU6Q, https://x.com/imjaredz, https://www.linkedin.com/in/imjaredz, https://imjaredz.com/) - Jared Zoneraich said many insights in the talk come from conversations with PromptLayer customers on how to build coding agents. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFKCzGlAU6Q) - Jared Zoneraich published "Let's Believe in Miracles Again" in 2025. (https://imjaredz.com/) - Jared Zoneraich published "Every Agent Should Be a VM" in 2025. (https://imjaredz.com/) - Jared Zoneraich published "LLM Idioms" in 2025. (https://imjaredz.com/) - Jared Zoneraich published "The Death of Prompt Engineering Has Been Greatly Exaggerated" in 2025. (https://imjaredz.com/) - Jared Zoneraich created Presidio Jeans in 2019, a "Denim jeans brand made in the USA." (https://imjaredz.com/) - Jared Zoneraich did Cyber Research at IronNet Cybersecurity in 2018. (https://imjaredz.com/) - Jared Zoneraich built Startup Sift in 2017, a "Webapp to help engineers discover exciting startups to work for." (https://imjaredz.com/) - Jared Zoneraich worked in Partnerships at Major League Hacking in 2015. (https://imjaredz.com/) - Jared Zoneraich did Software Engineering at Warby Parker in 2014. (https://imjaredz.com/) - Jared Zoneraich favors simple agent loops with a capable model repeatedly selecting tools and responding to their results over elaborate orchestration graphs. (https://ai.engineer/speakers/jared-zoneraich) - Jared Zoneraich's case for virtual-machine-backed agents emphasizes shell access, isolated execution, and persistent filesystems, treating bash as a universal agent interface. (https://ai.engineer/speakers/jared-zoneraich) - Jared Zoneraich advocates context management through isolated sub-agents for research, documentation, testing, and review that return only relevant findings. (https://ai.engineer/speakers/jared-zoneraich) - Jared Zoneraich prioritizes historical backtesting, end-to-end trials, targeted conversation snapshots, tool-call patterns, and LLM-as-judge evaluation over generic benchmark claims for agent evaluation. (https://ai.engineer/speakers/jared-zoneraich) - Jared Zoneraich's analysis of coding-agent architecture compares Claude Code, Codex, and other independently developed products without claiming authorship of them. (https://ai.engineer/speakers/jared-zoneraich) - Jared Zoneraich said the whiteboard of untouched ideas is still hanging in their office. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/imjaredz_we-built-promptlayer-by-accident-december-activity-7361049960462655489) - Jared Zoneraich posts on X under the handle @imjaredz. (https://x.com/imjaredz/status/2071294679824363979) - The talk was uploaded by the AI Engineer YouTube channel and had 102,502 views and 1,959 likes at time of capture. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFKCzGlAU6Q) - Jared Zoneraich did Hackathon Consulting in 2014, "Helping companies like Intel better reach student developers." (https://imjaredz.com/) - Jared Zoneraich did Software Engineering at Newlio in 2012. (https://imjaredz.com/) - Location is New York, New York, United States. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/imjaredz) ## Experience - Member of the Technical Staff at National Design Studio - Washington, DC (Sep 2026 - Present): The National Design Studio was created by Executive Order 14338 - New Projects at Cognition - New York, United States (Apr 2026 - Present): Building Devin - Founder & CEO at PromptLayer - New York City Metropolitan Area (Aug 2021 - Apr 2026): Built the first developer platform for prompt engineering. Raised $5M+ from great investors. Grew to $1M ARR and a team of 15. - Software Engineer at Tecton - New York City Metropolitan Area (Mar 2020 - Apr 2021): Acquired by Databricks. Front-end, infrastructure, developer monitoring tools. 9th engineer. - Associate at Alsop-Louie Partners - Berkeley (Oct 2016 - Jun 2020) - Software Engineering Intern at Facebook - Greater New York City Area (May 2019 - Aug 2019): Front-end. Civic Integrity Team - Cyber Research Intern at IronNet Cybersecurity - Washington D.C. Metro Area (May 2018 - Aug 2018): Built honeypots and behavioral malware simulations. - Software Engineering Intern at Google - San Francisco Bay Area (May 2017 - Aug 2017): Built "Closure Deps Profiler" for lazy-loading and dependency trimming (Language Platforms department) - Software Developer at Implisit (acquired by Salesforce) - Tel Aviv, Israel (Oct 2015 - Mar 2016): React front-end. Acquired by Salesforce (now Salesforce Einstein). - Partnerships Intern at Major League Hacking - Greater New York City Area (Jul 2015 - Oct 2015): Hackathon resources and student outreach - Office of the CEO at reddit Inc (Sep 2014 - Jun 2015): Assisted Alexis Ohanian with various projects and software projects. Recruited mentors, including Stephen Wolfram, who stayed up all night coding at a 1:10 mentor-to-student ratio. Expanded the event in its second year, partnering with Intel to provide scholarships, transportation, and laptops to 30 low-income students. - Technology Intern at Warby Parker - Greater New York City Area (Jul 2013 - Aug 2014): DevOps server monitoring and front-end redesign ## Education - UC Berkeley College of Engineering - Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - (Jan 2015 - Jan 2020) ## Sources - https://www.linkedin.com/in/imjaredz - https://imjaredz.com/ - https://ai.engineer/speakers/jared-zoneraich - https://events.datadoghq.com/summits/datadog-summit-san-francisco/speakers/jared-zoneraich/ - https://every.to/podcast/how-to-win-with-prompt-engineering - https://blog.promptlayer.com/promptlayer-announces-our-4-8m-fundraise/ - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/imjaredz_we-built-promptlayer-by-accident-december-activity-7361049960462655489 - https://tatiyants.com/podcast/exception-handlers-episode-9/ - https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@jared-zoneraich - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFKCzGlAU6Q - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/imjaredz_18-million-miles-traveled-400-red-hoodies-activity-7518353128849768448-JcGO - https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/07/promptlayer-is-building-tools-to-put-non-techies-in-the-drivers-seat-of-ai-app-development/ - https://ndstudio.gov/posts/introducing-rampart-edge - https://x.com/imjaredz/status/2071294679824363979 - https://x.com/imjaredz/status/2080088341262033273 - https://x.com/imjaredz - https://www.linkedin.com/in/imjaredz?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_profile%3AACoAAAqKRmUBEZQHb7INg3brqEZP58uXocnHRpE - https://api.github.com/users/jzone3/repos?sort=pushed&per_page=100 - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/imjaredz_huge-update-i-joined-cognition-im-so-activity-7455663778827894786-do2c - https://api.github.com/users/jzone3 - https://imjaredz.com - https://x.com/imjaredz/status/2112587091758424384 - https://x.com/imjaredz/status/2116222562606645433 - https://x.com/imjaredz/status/2107484271757922484 - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/imjaredz_introducing-frontiercode-20-the-second-activity-7520906892244627457-3-iz - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/imjaredz_skin-in-the-game-we-are-optimists-defenders-activity-7520511918269157376-7MQt - https://x.com/imjaredz/status/2111077992013181151 - https://x.com/imjaredz/status/2106120050558062928 - https://x.com/imjaredz/status/1805374705035366716 - https://github.com/jzone3 - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/imjaredz_one-of-my-favorite-things-about-this-job-activity-7520914933467963393-CUki - http://cognition.com/ - https://x.com/imjaredz/status/2116660222622347327 Researched with Autumn (https://www.autumn.ai) from public sources. 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