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Justin Mota

“IT Engineer at Cognition”

Joined: May 2025
How they joined: Directly
Before Cognition: Eagle Eye NetworksInformation Technology Administrator
Status: Current

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Researched with Autumn · 2026-11-04

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LocationAustin, Texas, United States

Company sitecognition.com

UniversityTexas A&M University-Kingsville

Systems IntegrationSystem ConfigurationSoftware SupportSoftware ImplementationTechnical SupportIT OperationsIT Service ManagementIT Operations ManagementProject ManagementNew Product RolloutInterpersonal SkillsHandle Multiple ProjectsVendor ManagementImplementation ExperienceVirtual Private Network (VPN)System AdministrationAnalytical SkillsSingle Sign-On (SSO)Technical DocumentationProblem SolvingCommunicationIT EscalationLicense ManagementAsset ManagementGmailResolving IssuesTicketing SystemsSystems ManagementGoogle WorkspaceAccount CreationComputer ImagingComputer Hardware TroubleshootingSQLMicrosoft OfficeInformation SystemsTroubleshootingComputer HardwareCustomer ServiceMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft Word

Notes

Cognition signed a definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf on 2025-07-14, including "Windsurf's IP, product, trademark and brand"; he started at Windsurf only about two months before the deal.Jul 14, 2025
Joined Windsurf (Codeium's agentic IDE company) as IT Engineer in May 2025; his LinkedIn role note reads "Originally Windsurf, acquired July 2025".May 2025
TechCrunch reported Cognition took on all Windsurf employees not hired by Google, after Google DeepMind hired CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen and research leaders.Jul 14, 2025
IT Administrator at Eagle Eye Networks, Austin TX, from Jan 2021 to Jun 2025 (about 4.5 years), his longest role. He left the month after he joined Windsurf.Jan 2021
Public headline says "IT Engineer at Cognition".
His listed skills (SSO, VPN, Google Workspace, license and asset management, account creation, computer imaging, ticketing systems, new product rollout) describe a corporate IT and endpoint/identity admin role. Nothing public ties him to building the Devin or Windsurf products.
Profile titles differ: the people index lists him as "IT Specialist at Cognition", while his current LinkedIn headline reads "IT Engineer at Cognition".2026
Eagle Eye Networks was an Austin-based cloud video surveillance company founded in 2012 by Dean Drako, founder of Barracuda Networks. It had 487 employees in 2023 and merged with Brivo in December 2025, about six months after Mota left.Dec 2025
Interim Windsurf CEO Jeff Wang said at the deal: "To our new teammates at Cognition: we at Windsurf feel incredibly lucky to be joining a team that shares our vision". That is the public framing of the transition Mota went through.Jul 14, 2025
IT Support Specialist at Thomas J. Henry Injury Attorneys in Austin, Jul 2020 to Jan 2021. It was a short bridge role between higher-ed IT and tech-company IT.Jul 2020
Eagle Eye Networks raised $40M in Series E funding from Accel in 2020, a total of $100M since founding. Mota joined as IT Administrator in January 2021, shortly after that raise, during a growth phase.2020
Studied Information Systems at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, 2015-2019.2019

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