- Joined
- Mar 2026
- How they joined
- Directly
- Before Cognition
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)Software Development Manager
- Status
- Current
- Shipped native macOS, Windows and Linux machines for Devin cloud agents; he posted: "Devin is the only cloud agent on the market that lets you natively spin up macOS, Windows and Linux machines."Sep 15, 2026Devin is the only cloud agent on the market that lets you natively spin up macOS, Windows and Linux machines. How it felt flipping the feature flag:
- Dealroom reports he joined Cognition to lead cloud agents, with the thesis that the next S-curve in agentic coding is cloud agents and that Cognition's VM/hypervisor/multi-OS infrastructure is a structural edge over container-based agents.Apr 27, 2026
- Joined Cognition (maker of Devin) as Member of Technical Staff in March 2026, after about 2.5 years at AWS following Amazon's acquisition of Fig.Mar 2026
- Announced seamless handoff between local (human-in-the-loop) agents and long-running cloud agents in Devin, framing it as the long-standing tradeoff Cognition finally solved.Sep 21, 2026Historically, when working on a new feature, you've had to choose between a local agent - interactive with a human in the loop - and cloud agents, that have their own machine that can run for hours autonomously. I think we've finally nailed the execution of handing off back and forth between the two. Try it now by running /cloud from the CLI. https://t.co/EHA5HJqR6u
- On macOS sandboxes he wrote they are "fiendishly difficult from an infra perspective and requires spelunking into macOS internals".Sep 15, 2026macOS sandboxes for cloud agents is such an obvious idea, but the reason why no one has done it yet at scale is because it is fiendishly difficult from an infra perspective and requires spelunking into macOS internals. Now you have no excuse: go build that app idea with Devin!
- At AWS (Aug 2023-Mar 2026) he was Software Development Manager leading the Kiro CLI team, building a terminal coding agent that reads/writes files and runs shell commands; the Kiro CLI lineage runs back through Amazon Q Developer CLI to Fig's codebase.Aug 2023
- Co-founded Fig (YC S20) with Brendan Falk in April 2020 as CTO; Fig added IDE-style autocomplete to existing terminals, reached ~25k GitHub stars and hundreds of thousands of developers.Apr 2020
- Current role is Member of Technical Staff at Cognition.
- Welcomed the Dioxus team (Jonathan Kelley @jkelleyrtp, @demonthos, @nicoburns) to Cognition, noting he had followed Dioxus since the Fig days when Fig was looking for a Rust UI framework, a thread linking his Fig-era Rust work to Cognition's desktop/TUI stack.Sep 10, 2026I've followed Dioxus since the @fig days, when we were looking for a Rust UI framework. @jkelleyrtp is the 🐐 - it's going to be a blast working with him, @demonthos & @nicoburns.
- Worked on the Devin in Slack revamp; he described the hard problem as Slack's informal social etiquette (when to tag people, DM, or wait for someone else to respond).Aug 20, 2026This was a fun one! Building an agent that feels at home in Slack is a surprisingly hard problem - there is a lot of informal social etiquette, like when to tag people, use a DM, wait for someone else to respond, etc. I’m pretty excited about what we shipped! If you haven’t tried @DevinAI in Slack yet, now is a great time to check it out!
- Amazon acquired Fig in August 2023 (TechCrunch, 2023-08-29); Fig's tech was folded into AWS's generative-AI command-line tooling.Aug 29, 2023
- A 2024 LinkedIn post credited Matt Schrage, Grant Gurvis, Chay Nabors and Mihai Balaci for bringing Amazon Q CLI to AWS CloudShell, identifying his ex-Fig team inside AWS.Oct 2024
Leads the Kiro CLI team, building a terminal coding agent that can read & write files and run shell commands on behalf of the user.
YCS20. Acquired by Amazon. Built developer tools to modernize the terminal, notably by adding intellisense style autocomplete. 25k stars on GitHub and used by hundreds of thousands developers.
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Worked on the Labs team with Dennis Crowley to prototype new consumer products.
If there is one takeaway I have from my time at @cognition it's that 'the future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed'. Incredibly excited & humbled to be building the future of software engineering with such an amazing team.
I’m that dude! But I can’t take the credit — huge team effort that cut across all of @cognition with @jhanikhil @mcparadip @devmchheda @_seanyneutron and Aaron Janse on frontier agent harness and custom TUI rendering in Rust as well as @silasalberti and the research team who trained & optimized SWE-1.6 Fast for the CLI. https://t.co/pBGOvWvase
Historically, when working on a new feature, you've had to choose between a local agent - interactive with a human in the loop - and cloud agents, that have their own machine that can run for hours autonomously. I think we've finally nailed the execution of handing off back and forth between the two. Try it now by running /cloud from the CLI. https://t.co/EHA5HJqR6u
Devin is the only cloud agent on the market that lets you natively spin up macOS, Windows and Linux machines. How it felt flipping the feature flag:
macOS sandboxes for cloud agents is such an obvious idea, but the reason why no one has done it yet at scale is because it is fiendishly difficult from an infra perspective and requires spelunking into macOS internals. Now you have no excuse: go build that app idea with Devin!
I’m pretty sure that thanks to our partnership with @cerebras and our optimized agent harness, Devin CLI is the fastest coding agent available. 👇Try it out for today + if you send me useful feature requests / bug reports, I’ll give you free credits!
I've followed Dioxus since the @fig days, when we were looking for a Rust UI framework. @jkelleyrtp is the 🐐 - it's going to be a blast working with him, @demonthos & @nicoburns.
This was a fun one! Building an agent that feels at home in Slack is a surprisingly hard problem - there is a lot of informal social etiquette, like when to tag people, use a DM, wait for someone else to respond, etc. I’m pretty excited about what we shipped! If you haven’t tried @DevinAI in Slack yet, now is a great time to check it out!
@alistairmcleay @jxnlco We’re working on a revamp of Devin in Slack that makes the agent feel much more like messaging a co-worker (it’ll be much less noisy!)
friends don't let friend run agents locally https://t.co/MxqnaQugFu
love that new model smell, but seriously @silasalberti and the entire research team cooked with this! 🧑🍳
@jaredpalmer @cognition @asha_shar @ScottWu46 Welcome to the team!
