- Joined Cognition
- Jul 2025
- How they joined
- With Windsurf
- Before Windsurf
- TykSolutions Architect
- Status
- Current
- Named '#1 Customer Engineer Revenue Driver of the Year' at Cognition's Sales Kickoff, and wrote: 'Earning this at Cognition hits different.' Thanked Alex Laubscher (day-to-day leadership), Graham Moreno ('setting the standard across Majors') and Nicholas Erdenberger (leading the org).Feb 24, 2026Still coming down from the energy of SKO ⚡ It was a privilege to be named the #1 Customer Engineer Revenue Driver of the Year but honestly this honor is a reflection of the people around me, including my AEs, partners, leaders and all my incredible engineering peers. Earning this at Cognition hits different. We're building the future of software engineering and seeing that impact with customers makes the grind worth it. Massive thanks to Alex Laubscher for the day-to-day leadership, Graham Moreno for setting the standard across Majors, and Nicholas Erdenberger for leading the org with conviction (and for the honor of this recognition) as well as the many teammates who make wins like this possible. Grateful for the recognition but even more grateful for the team behind it. If you're interested in being on the frontier of AI agents and software engineering, let's chat. #SalesKickoff #TeamWins #Windsurf #Cognition #WeAreHiring
- Spoke at AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 on 'How Forward Deployed Engineering is done at Cognition' (17:38 talk, published 2026-07-28).Jul 28, 2026
- Press coverage of the talk reports outcomes Wu cited from embedded FDE work: a 150% increase in effective engineering headcount, an 82% reduction in delivery timelines, and double the merged PRs. Named engagements were Nubank and Build, including a 50-engineer ETL migration done in a third of the time and COBOL/JCL legacy migrations.Jul 28, 2026
- Joined Cognition through its July 2025 acquisition of Windsurf (formerly Codeium); ai.engineer says Wu 'worked in deployed engineering at Codeium and Windsurf before joining Cognition'.Jul 2025
- Current role: Team Lead, Deployed Engineering at Cognition (2025-present), following a Deployed Engineer role at Windsurf in 2025.2025
- Reshared Cognition's raise announcement ('over $2B at a $48B valuation', per the post URL) with 'job's not finished' and a #hiring call.Sep 8, 2026
- In the talk Wu says Cognition shipped almost an order of magnitude more PRs internally over six months while hiring lagged, that writing code is usually only about 20% of the problem, and describes a day of 4-5 hours of customer calls followed by 4-5 hours at the keyboard.Jul 2026
- Announced the AI Engineer World's Fair talk with: 'At Cognition, I've seen how forward deployed engineering turns frontier AI into measurable outcomes for some of the world's most complex and highly regulated organizations.'Jun 26, 2026
- On the Codeium-to-Cognition arc Wu posted: 'From Codeium -> Windsurf ∪ Cognition, we're redefining how software gets built.'May 28, 2026
- Published .windsurf, a GitHub repo of sample Rules and Workflows for Windsurf (2025-05), and mcp-sse, a FastMCP 2.0 MCP SSE server in Python (2025-07). Both are customer-facing deployment artifacts from the Codeium/Windsurf period.Jul 2025
- The 2024 CV credits Wu's solutions role with generating $2M+ ARR through technical consultations, leading on-sites, contributing PRs to the API gateway, and helping move Tyk from Visionary to Leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant in 2023.Apr 2024
- At Tyk Technologies (Solutions Architect, 2021-2025), Wu authored TykTechnologies/custom-go-plugin, a Makefile-based repo for compiling and bundling custom Go middleware. Wu wrote that it 'increased the velocity of customer evaluations' and unblocked deals.Jan 2024
Windsurf was acquired by Cognition in July 2025 - https://cognition.ai/blog/windsurf Empowering everyone to dream bigger. Solutionize, support, and close strategic deals.
Solutionize, support, and close strategic deals in complex sales cycles. Provide technical guidance and consultation for B2B customers interested in adapting an API-first approach to their business strategy. Conduct technical demos, as well as provide strategic guidance on how API management fits into companies, from startups to enterprises. Generate, produce and edit content across different media such as videos, blogs and technical articles to help drive both MQLs and SQLs.
Project manager responsible for overseeing the software development efforts of the lab. Provided DevOps for lab servers and deployed research applications to on-premise data centres and cloud based Kubernetes clusters. Conducted bioinformatics research as a PhD (doctoral) candidate. Built and leveraged machine learning models to identify and quantify proteins from mass spectrometry data. Applied inference to datasets to identify nanoparticle drug candidates utilized in cancer research. Presented at research conferences.
Performed duties as a teaching assistant for the following courses: Object Oriented Programming, Algorithms, Design Patterns, Biological Sequence Analysis, and Functional Programming. Responsible for creating marking schemes, building automated software evaluation pipelines and performed grading for assignments and exams. Consulted with students to assist with their education across multiple computer science disciplines.
Co-Founded a startup which leveraged AI to perform speech to text and speaker diarization operations. Secured funding from accelerators and led the data efforts of the company. Designed, trained, tested and deployed in-house transformer models for the purposes of Speech-To-Text, Speaker Diarization and Speech Refinement. Leveraged Tensorflow and CUDA Toolkit libraries to achieve these goals. Built ETL (Extract-Transfer-Load) data pipelines as well as the APIs required for supporting the software.
- Represented the interests of Auspre/Scribr in partnership with Eighty8 Ventures - Artificial Intelligence domain expert
- Configured & maintained a High-Availability Kubernetes Cluster - Wrote APIs to interface with Amazon AWS, and Google GCP Services - Built & Deployed Applications on Digital Ocean through Rancher 2.0 - Maintained application data integrity using framework specific ORMs and MySQL
- Interacted with professors and attended lectures for the duration of a month - Led a team of 8 individuals to design and produce a product aimed at "Improving the lifestyle of a Canadian child with a disability." - Participated in the National Research In Motion/Shad Entrepreneurship Cup as chief web designer winning 3rd place
Still coming down from the energy of SKO ⚡ It was a privilege to be named the #1 Customer Engineer Revenue Driver of the Year but honestly this honor is a reflection of the people around me, including my AEs, partners, leaders and all my incredible engineering peers. Earning this at Cognition hits different. We're building the future of software engineering and seeing that impact with customers makes the grind worth it. Massive thanks to Alex Laubscher for the day-to-day leadership, Graham Moreno for setting the standard across Majors, and Nicholas Erdenberger for leading the org with conviction (and for the honor of this recognition) as well as the many teammates who make wins like this possible. Grateful for the recognition but even more grateful for the team behind it. If you're interested in being on the frontier of AI agents and software engineering, let's chat. #SalesKickoff #TeamWins #Windsurf #Cognition #WeAreHiring
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