# Matt Schrage

![Matt Schrage](/resources/cognition/portraits/matt-schrage.webp)

Cognition MTS on Devin cloud agents and Devin CLI; co-founder & CTO of Fig (YC S20, acquired by Amazon)  
Cognition  
United States

## At Cognition

- Role: Member of Technical Staff (Engineering)
- Joined: Mar 2026
- How they joined: Directly
- Before Cognition: Software Development Manager, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Overlapped before Cognition with other Cognition people at: Fig; Amazon; Harvard University (https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/worked-together)

## Identity
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-schrage-957b6843
- X: @MattSchrage
- GitHub: https://github.com/mschrage
- Website: http://schra.ge
- Domain: cognition.ai

## Notes
- 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." (https://x.com/MattSchrage/status/2099944027009228884)
- 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. (https://x.com/mattschrage/status/2048830772354699761)
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-schrage-957b6843)
- 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. (https://x.com/MattSchrage/status/2102113135477903553)
- On macOS sandboxes he wrote they are "fiendishly difficult from an infra perspective and requires spelunking into macOS internals". (https://x.com/MattSchrage/status/2099891336350457914)
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-schrage-957b6843)
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-schrage-957b6843)
- Current role is Member of Technical Staff at Cognition. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-schrage-957b6843)
- 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. (https://x.com/MattSchrage/status/2098111785198915818)
- 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). (https://x.com/MattSchrage/status/2090427328673300562)
- Amazon acquired Fig in August 2023 (TechCrunch, 2023-08-29); Fig's tech was folded into AWS's generative-AI command-line tooling. (https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/29/amazon-fig-command-line-terminal-generative-ai/)
- 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.
- Brendan Falk announced the launch of Fig with Matt Schrage on LinkedIn: "Today, Matt Schrage and I are very excited to officially announce the launch of our new company: Fig". (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/brendanfalk_today-matt-schrage-and-i-are-very-excited-activity-6686389622345469952-asRt)
- His own Fig write-up says Fig used the macOS Accessibility API to insert text and integrated with the shell to know the current process and working directory, the same OS-internals skill set behind his later macOS sandbox work at Cognition. (https://www.schra.ge/fig)
- Worked on Foursquare's Labs R&D team with Dennis Crowley in 2019 prototyping consumer products, including Marsbot for AirPods, where he did voice synthesis, background audio, background location and experimented with a Kalman filter for location accuracy. (https://www.schra.ge/marsbot)
- Public headline says "Member of Technical Staff at Cognition". (https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-schrage-957b6843)
- Welcomed Jared Palmer to Cognition alongside CEO Scott Wu (@ScottWu46) and @asha_shar. (https://x.com/MattSchrage/status/2079656414621102423)
- Studied history and philosophy at Harvard (2016-2020), wrote an undergraduate thesis on the development of audience measurement from Nielsen ratings to Facebook's News Feed, and took MIT's How to Make (Almost) Anything. (https://www.schra.ge/)
- Retweeted Brendan Falk's "Man, @fig was so ahead of its time" in Sept 2026, so the Fig co-founder relationship is still active. (https://x.com/MattSchrage/status/2103891435078451316)
- Side projects on schra.ge include a VT-100 terminal paperweight (2023), an analog-display pedometer (2023), a Personal API (2017), Cap timelapse screen recorder for macOS (2019) and Fameshow (2018). (https://www.schra.ge/)
- President of the Harvard Technology Review (Sep 2018-Apr 2020). (https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-schrage-957b6843)
- Earlier internships: Rockmelt prototype engineer (2014), Pocket summer intern (2015), OLX Group iOS engineer in Buenos Aires (2016), US EPA software engineer (2017). (https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-schrage-957b6843)
- Previous roles include Software Development Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS); Co-Founder & CTO at Fig; President at Harvard Technology Review; iOS Engineer at Foursquare; Software Engineer at US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); iOS Engineer at OLX Group; Summer Internship at Pocket™; Prototype Engineer at Rockmelt. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-schrage-957b6843)
- Education history includes Harvard University; S20, Y Combinator. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-schrage-957b6843)
- Previous roles include Member of Technical Staff at Cognition; Software Development Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS); Co-Founder & CTO at Fig; President at Harvard Technology Review; iOS Engineer at Foursquare; Software Engineer at US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); iOS Engineer at OLX Group; Summer Internship at Pocket™. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-schrage-957b6843)
- Location is United States. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-schrage-957b6843)

## Experience
- Member of Technical Staff at Cognition (Mar 2026 - Present)
- Software Development Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS) - San Francisco Bay Area (Aug 2023 - Mar 2026): Leads the Kiro CLI team, building a terminal coding agent that can read & write files and run shell commands on behalf of the user.
- Co-Founder & CTO at Fig - San Francisco Bay Area (Apr 2020 - Aug 2023): 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.
- President at Harvard Technology Review - Cambridge, United Kingdom (Sep 2018 - Apr 2020): The Harvard Technology Review (HTR) is a publication that explores the essentially human aspects of technology. HTR exists at the intersection between practice and theory, leveraging insight from both industry and academia. We aim to provide a community where undergraduates from interdisciplinary backgrounds can discuss the forefront of today’s tech scene and its societal implications.
- iOS Engineer at Foursquare - NYC (Jan 2019 - Jan 2019): Worked on the Labs team with Dennis Crowley to prototype new consumer products.
- Software Engineer at US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - Washington D.C. Metro Area (Jul 2017 - Aug 2017)
- iOS Engineer at OLX Group - Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina (Mar 2016 - Jun 2016)
- Summer Internship at Pocket™ - San Francisco Bay Area (Jan 2015 - Jan 2015)
- Prototype Engineer at Rockmelt - San Francisco Bay Area (Jan 2014 - Jan 2014)

Built developer tools to modernize the terminal, notably by adding intellisense style autocomplete. 25k stars on GitHub and used by hundreds of thousands developers.
- iOS Engineer at Foursquare (Jan 2019 - Dec 2019): Worked on the Labs team with Dennis Crowley to prototype new consumer products.
- Summer Internship at Pocket™ (Jan 2015 - Dec 2015)
- Prototype Engineer at Rockmelt (Jan 2014 - Dec 2014)

## Education
- Harvard University - (Jan 2016 - Jan 2020)
- Y Combinator - S20
- Harvard University - (Jan 2016 - Dec 2020)

## Sources
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-schrage-957b6843
- https://x.com/MattSchrage
- https://www.schra.ge/fig
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/brendanfalk_today-matt-schrage-and-i-are-very-excited-activity-6686389622345469952-asRt
- https://www.schra.ge/
- https://www.devtools.fm/episode/8
- https://kuopio.dealroom.co/companies/cognition_devin_ai
- https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/29/amazon-fig-command-line-terminal-generative-ai/
- https://www.schra.ge/marsbot
- https://www.codestory.co/episodes/s4-e8-the-aws-acquisition-how-fig-re-engineered-the-command-line-with-brendan-matt/
- https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/podcasts/fig-engineering-with-brendan-falk-and-matt-schrage/
- https://github.com/mschrage
- https://x.com/MattSchrage/status/2099944027009228884
- https://x.com/mattschrage/status/2048830772354699761
- https://x.com/MattSchrage/status/2102113135477903553
- https://x.com/MattSchrage/status/2099891336350457914
- https://x.com/MattSchrage/status/2054599783440925059
- https://x.com/MattSchrage/status/2098111785198915818
- https://x.com/MattSchrage/status/2099970670713004056
- https://x.com/MattSchrage/status/2090427328673300562
- https://x.com/MattSchrage/status/2056413800677724296
- https://x.com/MattSchrage/status/2079656414621102423
- https://x.com/MattSchrage/status/2103891435078451316


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