# Kevin Delgado

![Kevin Delgado](/resources/cognition/portraits/kevin-delgado.webp)

Account Director at Cognition (via TierZero acquisition); ex-Google Kubernetes engineer turned AI-SRE seller  
Cognition  
San Francisco Bay Area

## At Cognition

- Role: Account Director (Sales/GTM)
- Joined: Apr 2026
- How they joined: With TierZero (https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/acquisitions/tierzero)
- Before Cognition: Sales Development Representative, Grafana Labs
- Overlapped before Cognition with other Cognition people at: Grafana Labs; Google (https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/worked-together)

## Identity
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/delgadokevin
- GitHub: https://github.com/kevindelgado
- Domain: cognition.ai

## 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/delgadokevin_introducing-devin-oncall-devin-automatically-activity-7516885452193226752-A82o)
- 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)'. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/delgadokevin)
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/anhangzhu_two-years-ago-yun-park-and-i-set-out-to-activity-7485064126508212224-90UF)
- 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!" (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/delgadokevin_two-years-ago-yun-park-and-i-set-out-to-activity-7485104522285973504-K0N6)
- Cognition announced 'Welcoming TierZero to Cognition', welcoming founders Anhang and Yun and the TierZero team, to bring their production-operations/automation work into Devin. (https://cognition.com/blog/welcoming-tierzero)
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/delgadokevin_five-years-ago-i-was-an-engineer-getting-activity-7453123274785460224-sqbu)
- 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.' (https://www.linkedin.com/in/delgadokevin)
- 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". (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/delgadokevin_how-loop-built-an-agi-pilled-organization-activity-7510767274635460608-Zfqg)
- 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. (https://app.dealroom.co/news/feed/cognition-acquires-tierzero-to-build-autonomous-engineering-agents-for-production-systems)
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/delgadokevin_five-years-ago-i-was-an-engineer-getting-activity-7453123274785460224-sqbu)
- 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. (https://v1-32.docs.kubernetes.io/blog/2023/04/24/openapi-v3-field-validation-ga/)
- 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. (https://v1-32.docs.kubernetes.io/blog/2021/08/06/server-side-apply-ga/)
- Software Engineer at Google (Jul 2020-Feb 2023) working on open-source Kubernetes: 'Helped make the kubernetes API server more expressive and extensible.' (https://www.linkedin.com/in/delgadokevin)
- TierZero GTM engineer Jon Chen wrote that he built TierZero's outbound motion 'in preparation for Kevin Delgado joining'. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonchen-builder_i-often-get-asked-what-does-a-gtm-engineer-activity-7453511170365341696-q9Ym)
- At Pachyderm (Feb 2019-May 2020) he built version one of Pachyderm Hub, the managed cloud version of Pachyderm. The Kubernetes Podcast (ep. 79) cited his blog post on building it as a 'Kubernetes-as-a-service'-as-a-service on GKE. (https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/079-cloud-native-rejekts/)
- Authored the upstream change 'add server-side validation support to kubectl' in kubernetes/cli-runtime (commit attributed to kevindelgado). (https://github.com/kubernetes/cli-runtime/blob/master/pkg/resource/helper.go)
- At LiveRamp (2016 intern; SWE Aug 2017-Jan 2019) he maintained a 200k+ requests-per-second 'pixel server' while migrating it from legacy on-prem Java to Go on Kubernetes. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/delgadokevin)
- GitHub account kevindelgado (San Francisco, company '@usacognition', 42 public repos, created 2014) includes a kubernetes/kubernetes fork; the employer field already shows Cognition. (https://github.com/kevindelgado)
- Published a slide deck, 'Life of a Kubernetes API Request', on Speaker Deck. (https://speakerdeck.com/kevindelgado/life-of-a-kubernetes-api-request)
- Speaks English and Spanish; based in the San Francisco Bay Area. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/delgadokevin)

## Experience
- Account Director at Cognition - San Francisco Bay Area (Jun 2026 - Present): Kevin selling Devin
- Founding Account Executive at TierZero AI (acquired by Cognition) - San Francisco Bay Area (Apr 2026 - Jul 2026): GTM Hire #1
AI production agents for engineering teams that are tired of paging humans for problems machines can solve.
- Sales Development Representative at Grafana Labs (Jan 2025 - Apr 2026): Went to the dark side to help engineers illuminate what’s going wrong in prod.
AMER SDR of the Year FY26 - 144% attainment
- Software Engineer at Google - San Francisco Bay Area (Jul 2020 - Feb 2023): Worked on open source kubernetes. Helped make the kubernetes API server more expressive and extensible.
- Software Engineer at Pachyderm, Inc. - San Francisco Bay Area (Feb 2019 - May 2020): Built version one of “Pachyderm Hub” our fully managed, cloud-hosted version of pachyderm.
- Software Engineer at LiveRamp, An Acxiom Company - San Francisco Bay Area (Aug 2017 - Jan 2019): Maintained a 200k+ request per second “pixel server”, while helping to migrate it from legacy Java on prem, to Go, in a fully cloud native stack on kubernetes.
- Software Engineering Intern at LiveRamp, An Acxiom Company - San Francisco, California (May 2016 - Aug 2016): Big data Hadoop workflows
- Picking out the best watermelons for customers.
- Identifying when the fuji apple display was low, putting the fuji apples that were on display into an empty banana box, running to the cooler to grab a new box of fuji apples, placing the new fuji apples on display, stacking the fuji apples that were previously on display but were now sitting in a banana box back onto the display on top of new fuji apples, putting the once again empty banana box with the rest of the empty banana boxes we use to help us rotate new produce, breaking down the fuji apple box and stacking it on top of the rest of the discarded produce boxes in the back of the store to be taken to the dumpster at the end of the day.
- Helping customers find the kohlrabi.

## Education
- Duke University - Bachelor's Degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering & Computer Science - (Jan 2013 - May 2017)

## Sources
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/delgadokevin
- https://cognition.com/blog/welcoming-tierzero
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-shan-446321202?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_profile%3AACoAADOpLzYBSfrl9y8bWAvqHPHMacUsHwByS4w
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/delgadokevin?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_profile%3AACoAABJSNe4BaahbRz151M6nlV36VxuHSQdL7bY
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonydong3?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_profile%3AACoAAAQELywBcBsjhGV3Uq0bVolFBQPnkry0Wn4
- https://v1-32.docs.kubernetes.io/blog/2021/08/06/server-side-apply-ga/
- https://v1-32.docs.kubernetes.io/blog/2023/04/24/openapi-v3-field-validation-ga/
- https://github.com/kevindelgado
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonchen-builder_i-often-get-asked-what-does-a-gtm-engineer-activity-7453511170365341696-q9Ym
- https://github.com/kubernetes/cli-runtime/blob/master/pkg/resource/helper.go
- https://app.dealroom.co/news/feed/cognition-acquires-tierzero-to-build-autonomous-engineering-agents-for-production-systems
- https://speakerdeck.com/kevindelgado/life-of-a-kubernetes-api-request
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/anhangzhu_two-years-ago-yun-park-and-i-set-out-to-activity-7485064126508212224-90UF
- https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/079-cloud-native-rejekts/
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/delgadokevin_introducing-devin-oncall-devin-automatically-activity-7516885452193226752-A82o
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/delgadokevin_two-years-ago-yun-park-and-i-set-out-to-activity-7485104522285973504-K0N6
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/delgadokevin_five-years-ago-i-was-an-engineer-getting-activity-7453123274785460224-sqbu
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/delgadokevin_how-loop-built-an-agi-pilled-organization-activity-7510767274635460608-Zfqg


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