- Joined
- Aug 2026
- How they joined
- Directly
- Before Cognition
- Palantir TechnologiesForward Deployed AI Engineer
- Status
- Current
Details
LocationNew York, New York, United States
UniversityCornell University
Notes
- Joined Cognition (maker of Devin, and owner of Windsurf) as an Engineer in New York in Aug 2026, coming straight from Palantir; LinkedIn does not specify which product (Devin vs Windsurf) he works on.Aug 2026
- At Palantir Technologies (Jun 2025 - Aug 2026, New York) he was both a Forward Deployed AI Engineer and a Technical Lead; LinkedIn directory snippets show his headline as 'AI Tech Lead @ Palantir'.Jun 2025
- The forward-deployed AI role at Palantir, where engineers sit with customers to ship agents, maps directly to Cognition's enterprise deployment of Devin.Aug 2026
- On 2026-03-08 he defended Palantir publicly on X: 'If it takes a year to vibe code then you're still a year behind. We have a thousand devs building with AI so good luck catching up.'Mar 8, 2026@mlaurencechen @TheEthanDing If it takes a year to vibe code then you’re still a year behind. We have a thousand devs building with AI so good luck catching up. @grok what is Ethan’s company worth and if Ethan wants to create shareholder value and believed his own tweet should he pivot to building Palantir
- Cognition signed a definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf, the agentic IDE, including its IP, product and trademark, on 2025-07-14; he joined roughly 13 months after the deal.Jul 14, 2025
- Interned at Google DeepMind (Aug-Nov 2024, Mountain View) doing 'Machine Learning on Gemini'.Aug 2024
- B.S. Computer Science, Cornell University (Aug 2021 - May 2025), Irwin Jacobs Dean's Scholar, minors in Electrical Engineering and Business.May 2025
- Was a Backend Developer at Cornell App Development (AppDev), the student-run open-source team, from Feb 2022 to Jun 2023, and taught its Intro to Backend Development course in Spring 2023.Feb 2022
- Public headline says "Engineer at Cognition".
- His team won 'Best Backend' at the Cornell AppDev Hack Challenge for the app Cumulus, with Adam Cahall, Bella Hoie, Daniel Wei and Teresa Huang.
- In Mar 2026 he reposted Palantir's 'Forward Deployed Compute' sovereign AI reference architecture with NVIDIA and NHS Federated Data Platform results.Mar 14, 2026
- Interned at Netflix (May-Aug 2024, Los Gatos) on 'Backend on Content Middleware Infra'.May 2024
Experience
Engineer at Cognition
Aug 2026 - Present
New York, United States
Forward Deployed AI Engineer at Palantir Technologies
Jun 2025 - Aug 2026
New York, New York, United States
Technical Lead at Palantir Technologies
Jun 2025 - Aug 2026
New York, New York, United States
Software Engineer Intern at Google DeepMind
Aug 2024 - Nov 2024
Mountain View, CA
Machine Learning on Gemini
Software Engineer Intern at Netflix
May 2024 - Aug 2024
Los Gatos, CA
Backend on Content Middleware Infra
Software Engineer Intern at Amazon
Jun 2023 - Aug 2023
Seattle, WA
Full stack on PXT Craft
Backend Developer at Cornell App Development (AppDev)
Feb 2022 - Jun 2023
Intro to Backend Development Course Instructor at Cornell App Development (AppDev)
Jan 2023 - May 2023
Education
Cornell University
Aug 2021 - May 2025
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science
Irwin Jacobs Dean's Scholar Minors: Electrical Engineering and Business
AchievementsBest Backend Winner, Cornell AppDev Hack Challenge (Cumulus) · Summer Science Program 2020 (Biochemistry)
Recent posts
March 2026
@grok @mlaurencechen @TheEthanDing Assuming he believes his own tweet that Palantir can be vibe coded
@mlaurencechen @TheEthanDing If it takes a year to vibe code then you’re still a year behind. We have a thousand devs building with AI so good luck catching up. @grok what is Ethan’s company worth and if Ethan wants to create shareholder value and believed his own tweet should he pivot to building Palantir
AwardsIrwin Jacobs Dean's Scholar, Cornell · Best Backend Winner, Cornell AppDev Hack Challenge (Cumulus)
Profiles
Code
Repos3
Repos
mateow99/Cumulus-Backendakmatchev/LSTM-traderseancav03/Texas-Holdem-OCaml
