# Justin Mota

IT Engineer at Cognition (Devin, Windsurf); ex-Eagle Eye Networks IT Administrator  
Cognition  
Austin, Texas, United States

## At Cognition

- Role: IT Specialist (Engineering)
- Joined: May 2025
- How they joined: Directly
- Before Cognition: Information Technology Administrator, Eagle Eye Networks

## Identity
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-mota-530892151
- Domain: cognition.com

## 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. (https://cognition.com/blog/windsurf)
- Joined Windsurf (Codeium's agentic IDE company) as IT Engineer in May 2025; his LinkedIn role note reads "Originally Windsurf, acquired July 2025". (https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-mota-530892151)
- 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. (https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/cognition-maker-of-the-ai-coding-agent-devin-acquires-windsurf/)
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-mota-530892151)
- Public headline says "IT Engineer at Cognition". (https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-mota-530892151)
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-mota-530892151)
- Profile titles differ: the people index lists him as "IT Specialist at Cognition", while his current LinkedIn headline reads "IT Engineer at Cognition". (https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-mota-530892151)
- 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. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Eye_Networks)
- 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. (https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/cognition-maker-of-the-ai-coding-agent-devin-acquires-windsurf/)
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-mota-530892151)
- 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. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Eye_Networks)
- Studied Information Systems at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, 2015-2019. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-mota-530892151)
- Desktop Support Specialist at Del Mar College, Corpus Christi TX, Sep 2018 to Jul 2020, overlapping the end of his degree. This was his entry into IT support. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-mota-530892151)
- Previous roles include Information Technology Administrator at Eagle Eye Networks; Information Technology Support Specialist at Thomas J. Henry Injury Attorneys; Desktop Support Specialist at Del Mar College. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-mota-530892151)
- Education history includes Information Systems, Texas A&M University-Kingsville. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-mota-530892151)
- Location is Austin, Texas, United States. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-mota-530892151)
- LinkedIn shows 524 connections and 529 followers. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-mota-530892151)

## Experience
- IT Engineer at Cognition (May 2025 - Present): Originally Windsurf, acquired July 2025
- Information Technology Administrator at Eagle Eye Networks - Austin, Texas, United States (Jan 2021 - Jun 2025)
- Information Technology Support Specialist at Thomas J. Henry Injury Attorneys - Austin, Texas, United States (Jul 2020 - Jan 2021)
- Desktop Support Specialist at Del Mar College - Corpus Christi, Texas (Sep 2018 - Jul 2020)

## Education
- Texas A&M University-Kingsville - Information Systems - (Jan 2015 - Jan 2019)

## Sources
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-mota-530892151
- https://cognition.com/blog/windsurf
- https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/cognition-maker-of-the-ai-coding-agent-devin-acquires-windsurf/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Eye_Networks


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