- Joined
- Jun 2026
- How they joined
- Directly
- Before Cognition
- HausHead of New Initiative Strat / Ops
- Status
- Current
Overlapped before Cognition
“Not much of a LinkedIn poster but man is it fun to work at Cognition, INSANE pace, opportunity, and impact and still feels like a startup in all the best ways!!”
Sources1linkedin.com
Investments2
Details
Notes
- A November 2026 breakdown of Cognition's ~300-person go-to-market org names him as the leader of Applied AI (~10 people), the team that 'help[s] each customer's engineers change how they work with Devin', with Felicia Nan (ex-Stripe) and Rose Landeira (ex-McKinsey) on his team.Nov 2, 2026
- Promoted to Applied AI Team Lead at Cognition in October 2026, about four months after joining Cognition's Applied AI org in June 2026.Oct 2026
- August 2026 LinkedIn post, verbatim: "Not much of a LinkedIn poster but man is it fun to work at Cognition, INSANE pace, opportunity, and impact and still feels like a startup in all the best ways!!"Aug 23, 2026Not much of a LinkedIn poster but man is it fun to work at Cognition, INSANE pace, opportunity, and impact and still feels like a startup in all the best ways!!
- June 2026 LinkedIn post announcing the move, verbatim: "Excited to be joining the Applied AI org at Cognition!" (205 reactions, 30 comments).Jun 16, 2026Excited to be joining the Applied AI org at Cognition!
- As an Insight Partners investor he announced Insight's Series A in Haus in August 2023 ('With our Series A investment in Zach and the Haus team finally made public...'), CC'ing Insight colleagues Jonathan Rosenbaum and Sabrina Lu; he left Insight in April 2025 to join Haus as an operator, an investor-to-operator jump into his own portfolio company.Aug 3, 2023
- Founder & CEO of Tandem Medical (2016-2018), a UVA student startup building role-based hospital messaging/task software ('a cross between JIRA and Slack') to replace pagers; co-founded with Ripley Carroll (sales/business development, CSO) and James Wang (commerce + CS, led development).Apr 4, 2017
- Same post places his team inside Cognition's GTM machine alongside ~95 deployed engineers and ~130 account executives; Cognition bought Windsurf in July 2025 and almost 1 in 6 GTM staff are ex-Windsurf. He did not come through the Windsurf acquisition: he joined from Haus.Nov 2, 2026
- September 2026 repost of a Cognition job opening with his comment, verbatim: "Awesome opportunity at Cog for former consultants! Feel free to reach out with any questions!" -.Sep 10, 2026Awesome opportunity at Cog for former consultants! Feel free to reach out with any questions!
- Before Cognition he was Head of New Initiative Strategy/Ops at Haus (Haus Analytics, growth-marketing incrementality) from April 2025 to June 2026, and has stayed on as an Advisor since June 2026.Apr 2025
- Vice President at Insight Partners (June 2020 - April 2025) in New York; investor directory lists an investment range of $10M-$350M with a $25M sweet spot.Jun 2020
- Led/represented Insight Partners in Rollstack's $11M Series A and joined Rollstack's Board of Directors; quoted: 'Rollstack is elegantly solving a massive and universal problem relevant to businesses.'
- Consultant at McKinsey & Company, August 2018 - May 2020, before moving to Insight Partners; his GitHub account display name is 'Kamran Pirasteh (McKinsey)'.Aug 2018
At company sinceJun 1, 2026
Previous roleHaus
Experience
Applied AI Team Lead at Cognition
Oct 2026 - Present
Advisor at Haus
Jun 2026 - Present
Applied AI at Cognition
Jun 2026 - Oct 2026
Head of New Initiative Strat / Ops at Haus
Apr 2025 - Jun 2026
Vice President at Insight Partners
Jun 2020 - Apr 2025
Consultant at McKinsey & Company
Aug 2018 - May 2020
CEO & Founder at Tandem Medical
Jan 2016 - Dec 2018
Education
University of Virginia
Projects
Tandem Medical: role-based hospital messaging and task platform (2016-2018)
AdvisorAdvisor, Haus (2026-)
Recent posts
August 2026
Not much of a LinkedIn poster but man is it fun to work at Cognition, INSANE pace, opportunity, and impact and still feels like a startup in all the best ways!!
June 2026
Excited to be joining the Applied AI org at Cognition!
September 2026
Awesome opportunity at Cog for former consultants! Feel free to reach out with any questions!
Articles
Press
Profiles
Code
Repos0
Network
ConnectionsRipley Carroll (Tandem co-founder) · James Wang (Tandem co-founder) · Jonathan Rosenbaum (Insight Partners) · Sabrina Lu (Insight Partners) · Zach (Haus founder/CEO) · Felicia Nan (Cognition Applied AI) · Rose Landeira (Cognition Applied AI) · Connor Deal, Wyatt Harlow (polo teammates)
FirmInsight Partners (former, 2020-2025)
Investments2
Investments
| Company | Amount |
|---|---|
| Haus | Not found |
| Rollstack | $11M |
Board seats
RollstackBoard of Directors (Insight Partners)
