# Nick Brown

Front End Developer  
Cognition  
Denver, Colorado, United States

## At Cognition

- Role: Applied AI Engineer (Engineering)
- Joined: Jan 2026
- How they joined: Directly
- Before Cognition: Frontend Developer, Bluehawk Consulting

## Identity
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-brown-b6217888
- Domain: cognition.ai

## Notes
- Joined Cognition in January 2026 as an early member of its Applied AI Engineering team, driving Devin adoption across Fortune 100 engineering orgs via 1-3 week onsite workshops built on customers' real use cases. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-brown-b6217888)
- In his own words on LinkedIn: "I run 4–5 daily pairing sessions with engineering pods of 6–20 people, embedding AI directly into existing workflows, and lead kickoff/closing sessions for the broader org." (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-brown-b6217888)
- Claims his workshop approach "has driven 400–600% usage increases across strategic accounts, with gains sustained well past the workshop" (self-reported on LinkedIn). (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-brown-b6217888)
- Also ramps new Applied AI Engineers through reverse-shadowing and coaching and works to build "lasting AI champions within our strategic accounts". (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-brown-b6217888)
- His LinkedIn headline still reads 'Front End Developer' and the summary still describes React/React Native work, while the current role is AI enablement; the activity is the signal: he pivoted from building UIs to teaching enterprise engineers to work with an AI agent. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-brown-b6217888)
- Lead front-end developer at Pluto (Pluto Bio), a no-code life-sciences data visualization platform, May 2023-Aug 2024, building its Next.js/Tailwind web app. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-brown-b6217888)
- Career-switched from writing to code through Dev Bootcamp's 19-week full-stack program (2014), where his final project with teammates Emily Owaki and Michael Steichen was PairBnB, an app to pair with programmers around the country in exchange for a place to stay. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-brown-b6217888)
- B.A. in Creative Writing from Colorado College (2010-2014), studying under Steven Hayward, Maureen McHugh and Rawi Hage; the non-CS path (writer -> bootcamp -> 10 years of React) is unusual for an AI-lab engineer and fits a customer-facing, teaching-heavy Applied AI role. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-brown-b6217888)
- Public headline says "Front End Developer". (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-brown-b6217888)
- Only dedicated front-end developer at ZERO.health (Mar 2022-Mar 2023), where he migrated internal React apps from Redux and class components to hooks and TypeScript. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-brown-b6217888)
- Senior React developer at Zayo Group (Dec 2019-Feb 2022), managing the re-release of zayo.com, building a shared component library and helping move the backend off Salesforce/WordPress to AWS. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-brown-b6217888)
- Played for Colorado College's club ultimate team Wasabi from freshman year; a catch between two UC Santa Barbara players at a February 2013 San Diego tournament was ranked No. 6 in USA Ultimate magazine's top ten plays of the year. (https://thecatalystnews.com/2013/07/08/senior-makes-frisbee-magazines-top-10-plays-of-the-year/)
- My name is Nick Brown and I am an experienced Front End Developer located in the Denver area who has mostly worked with React, React Native and other Javascript frameworks. In my work I value intuitive user interfaces and strong coding practices to improve quality of life for engineers and end users. I am looking for companies where I can continue to put these beliefs into practice; this comes from the profile summary and preserves the person's own positioning. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-brown-b6217888)
- Consulting front-end developer via ProKarma (Feb-Nov 2019), starting on T-Mobile's TVision cord-cutting streaming service release (AngularJS/Backbone). (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-brown-b6217888)
- At NagraStar/DISH (Aug 2017-Feb 2019) worked on Backbone set-top-box apps for NagraStar before transferring to DISH to build DISH Anywhere in React, Redux and React Native. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-brown-b6217888)
- Sports Editor of The Catalyst, Colorado College's student newspaper (2013-2014), managing writers and photographers and writing a column; e.g. his May 2013 column 'What's so funny about CC sports?'. (https://thecatalystnews.com/2013/05/10/whats-so-funny-about-cc-sports/)
- Previous roles include Frontend Developer at Bluehawk Consulting; Software Engineer (Frontend) at Pluto; React Developer at ZERO.health; React Developer at Zayo Group; Front End Developer at ProKarma; Front End Developer at NagraStar / DISH; Front End Developer at OFP Hosting; Web Developer at Neon Mobile. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-brown-b6217888)
- Education history includes Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Creative Writing, Colorado College; Full-Stack Development, Dev Bootcamp. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-brown-b6217888)
- Early-career web work: OFP Hosting (2016-2017, pages plus company newsletters and customer service), Neon Mobile (2016, speech-to-text interface talking to IBM Watson in PHP/Twig), and 2015 freelance sites for Acliviti, PKConsulting (Rails) and Amani Global Works. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-brown-b6217888)
- Based in the Denver, Colorado area throughout his career (Zayo, ZERO.health, Pluto all Denver). (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-brown-b6217888)
- PR intern at Kamco International (summer 2012), writing press releases and newsletters and building Amazon/eBay listings. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-brown-b6217888)
- Location is Denver, Colorado, United States. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-brown-b6217888)

## Experience
- Applied AI Engineer at Cognition - Denver, Colorado, United States (Jan 2026 - Present): I'm an early member of Cognition's Applied AI Engineering team, driving Devin adoption across Fortune 100 engineering orgs through immersive 1–3 week onsite workshops built around customers' real use cases.
 
I run 4–5 daily pairing sessions with engineering pods of 6–20 people, embedding AI directly into existing workflows, and lead kickoff/closing sessions for the broader org. Working with account teams, I turn tedious engineering tasks into hands-on AI exercises — an approach that's driven 400–600% usage increases across strategic accounts, with gains sustained well past the workshop.
 
I also help ramp new Applied AI Engineers through reverse-shadowing and coaching, and work to build lasting AI champions within our strategic accounts.
- Frontend Developer at Bluehawk Consulting (Oct 2024 - Aug 2025): As a consultant for Bluehawk I worked for Rula on their blog, which was built as a Wordpress headless CMS connected to a React front-end. I also assisted with their transition to Storyblok, building out new pages and components during the migration.
- Software Engineer (Frontend) at Pluto - Denver, Colorado, United States (May 2023 - Aug 2024): Pluto is a cloud-based platform empowering life sciences organizations to visualize and analyze complex biological data sets easily, with no coding required. I was the lead front-end developer on their web application which is built with Next.js, Tailwind CSS and modern React.js patterns
- React Developer at ZERO.health - Denver, Colorado, United States (Mar 2022 - Mar 2023): I was responsible for designing, building and testing new features in several different React based apps as the only dedicated Front End Developer on a small team, and oversaw the transition of several internal React applications away from Redux and Class components over to functional components, hooks and Typescript.
- React Developer at Zayo Group - Greater Denver Area (Dec 2019 - Feb 2022): Helped manage the re-release of zayo.com as the Senior React developer on the team, also integrated and built out our component library across our suite of internal applications and worked as part of a team to modernize our back-end stack away from Salesforce and Wordpress towards AWS.
- Front End Developer at ProKarma - Greater Denver Area (Feb 2019 - Nov 2019): I worked as a consulting Front End Developer for ProKarma, a consulting company that provides staffers for technical needs. I started with them on a project with T-Mobile, stabilizing the release of their cord-cutting streaming service, TVision. 

My duties involved making daily updates to their AngularJS and Backbone applications. Their stack also used Docker for containerization and Node to serve the application.
- Front End Developer at NagraStar / DISH - Greater Denver Area (Aug 2017 - Feb 2019): I started working on Backbone apps on the set-top boxes for Nagrastar LLC, who were contracting for DISH TV. After a few months I was transferred to DISH to work on DISH Anywhere, a React, Redux and React Native application. As a front-end developer my duties include designing, styling and building the application, and require a strong understanding of ES 6 and React principles.
- Front End Developer at OFP Hosting - Greater Denver Area (Aug 2016 - Jul 2017): I build pages for the website and mobile app using HTML, CSS, and Javascript (jQuery) based off of JSON data.

I also write and edit company-wide emails and newsletters, and handle customer service.
- Web Developer at Neon Mobile - Greater Denver Area (May 2016 - Jul 2016): I worked on their mobile app's speech to text interface and communication with Watson (PHP, Twig).
- Developer, Copywriter at Acliviti - Chicago (Jul 2015 - Oct 2015): I was responsible for redesigning their existing Wordpress operation. Duties included image manipulation and generation, writing original copy, and redesigning their site to broadcast their message in a style that was simple, interactive and direct.

Link - http://acliviti.com/
- Developer, Copywriter at PKConsulting - Chicago (May 2015 - Jul 2015): I built a brochure site from the ground up using Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS and JQuery.  During the process I was responsible for image generation and manipulation, developing original copy and content, and the creation of a site that was polished, interactive and completely responsive.
- Developer at Amani Global Works - Chicago (Mar 2015 - Apr 2015): I was responsible for helping them launch a new version of their Wordpress site that helped simplify their message with a modern, polished design.

Link - http://www.amaniglobalworks.org/
- Sports Editor at The Catalyst Newspaper (Sep 2013 - Jan 2014): I was in charge of managing a team of writers and photographers, researching story ideas and editing five-six articles each week.  I also wrote articles and a column for each issue.
- PR Intern at Kamco International (Jun 2012 - Sep 2012): I worked for several months writing and sending out press releases, working on the company newsletter and handling product descriptions for e-commerce listings.  I also created full listings on Amazon, Ebay and Buy.com, and worked in Microsoft Excel.

## Education
- Colorado College - Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Creative Writing - (Jan 2010 - Jan 2014): At Colorado College I studied creative writing from Steven Hayward, Maureen McHugh and Rawi Hage among others.  I also studied literature, film, religion, political science and other social sciences.
- Dev Bootcamp - Full-Stack Development - (Jan 2014 - Jan 2014): Over the course of a nineteen-week extensive  program, I learned Ruby, Rails, Javascript, jQuery, AJAX, CSS, HTML and version control with Git.  We also studied team dynamics and Agile practices.  we completed two projects in the final three weeks of the program.

As a cumulative final project, Emily Owaki, Michael Steichen and I created PairBnB, an app that allows you to network and pair with programmers around the country in exchange for a place to stay. 

You can check it out at pairbnb.org!

## Sources
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-brown-b6217888
- https://thecatalystnews.com/2013/07/08/senior-makes-frisbee-magazines-top-10-plays-of-the-year/
- https://thecatalystnews.com/2013/05/10/whats-so-funny-about-cc-sports/


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