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Kevin Delgado

“AI Natives @ Cognition”

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Joined Cognition: Jul 2026
How they joined: With TierZero
Before Cognition: Grafana LabsSales Development Representative
Status: Current

Overlapped before Cognition

Sources¹linkedin.com ²linkedin.com ³cognition.com

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LocationSan Francisco Bay Area

Company sitecognition.ai

LanguagesEnglish, Spanish

UniversityDuke University

JavaMatlabCMIPS AssemblyGitAndroidTeamworkData AnalysisLeadershipSolidWorksTeachingC++HadoopCascadingMySQLGoKubernetes

Notes

On 2026-10-16 he reposted Cognition's Devin Oncall launch, writing verbatim: "Your favorite software engineer just got even better at going oncall! From the world-class team that brought you TierZero, Devin Oncall is a step change in autonomous alert investigation and incident resolution. Check it out!" Devin Oncall is the product line most directly descended from TierZero.Oct 16, 2026
Came to Cognition through its acquisition of TierZero AI, where he was Founding Account Executive and 'GTM Hire #1' (Apr-Jul 2026); LinkedIn lists the company as 'TierZero AI (acquired by Cognition)'.Apr 2026
In his acquisition post, co-founder Anhang Zhu tagged Kevin among 'the real MVPs ... who built this company', alongside Jake Rachleff, Jeff Yan, Tianyi Huang, Edward Wu, Eric Yuan and Dan Code-McNeil.Jul 20, 2026
Kevin reposted the TierZero-Cognition announcement on 2026-07-20 with the comment, verbatim: "Stoked to be joining forces with the world-class team at Cognition!"Jul 20, 2026
Cognition announced 'Welcoming TierZero to Cognition', welcoming founders Anhang and Yun and the TierZero team, to bring their production-operations/automation work into Devin.Jul 2026
His TierZero announcement opened, verbatim: "Five years ago I was an engineer getting paged at 2am. Today I'm joining TierZero AI as their first AE." His pitch builds directly on his own on-call history as an engineer.Apr 23, 2026Five years ago I was an engineer getting paged at 2am. Today I'm joining TierZero AI as their first AE. AI-generated code is accelerating teams. The problem is, it's also making production more brittle. The same teams shipping faster than ever are building systems faster than they can understand. Fighting that with more humans on-call doesn't scale. The answer is AI that watches, learns, responds, and helps teams get ahead of the failure modes their own velocity is creating. That's what TierZero is building. Thank you to Anhang Z. and Yun Park for the opportunity to build this from the gro
At Grafana Labs (Jan 2025-Apr 2026) he was a Sales Development Representative and was named AMER SDR of the Year FY26 at 144% attainment; he called the move 'went to the dark side to help engineers illuminate what's going wrong in prod.'Jan 2025
On 2026-09-29 he shared a Cognition customer story on Loop, writing verbatim: "I work with a bunch of forward-thinking teams, but Loop definitely raises the bar on what it means to build a company AI-native from the ground-up. Definitely give it a read".Sep 29, 2026
TierZero was co-founded by Anhang Zhu and Yun Park (ex-Facebook and Databricks) to build autonomous production-engineering agents; Kevin was its first sales hire.Jul 2026
In that post he thanked Tessa Greenleaf 'for taking a chance on an engineer who'd never sold anything', Sarah Girdner, and 'the Westies, the best SDR team on the floor' at Grafana Labs.Apr 23, 2026Five years ago I was an engineer getting paged at 2am. Today I'm joining TierZero AI as their first AE. AI-generated code is accelerating teams. The problem is, it's also making production more brittle. The same teams shipping faster than ever are building systems faster than they can understand. Fighting that with more humans on-call doesn't scale. The answer is AI that watches, learns, responds, and helps teams get ahead of the failure modes their own velocity is creating. That's what TierZero is building. Thank you to Anhang Z. and Yun Park for the opportunity to build this from the gro
Credited as a contributor to Server-Side Field Validation and OpenAPI v3 reaching GA in Kubernetes, alongside Alexander Zielenski, Antoine Pelisse, Daniel Smith, David Eads, Jeffrey Ying, Jordan Liggitt and Sean Sullivan. These were his API-machinery collaborators at Google.Apr 24, 2023
Credited as a contributor to Kubernetes Server-Side Apply reaching GA in v1.22, alongside Antoine Pelisse, Daniel Smith, Joe Betz, Jenny Buckley, Julian Modesto, Kevin Wiesmuller and others.Aug 6, 2021

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