- Joined Cognition
- Jul 2025
- How they joined
- With Windsurf
- Before Windsurf
- AgVendData Ops Lead, Growth
- Status
- Current
Overlapped before Cognition
Details
LocationAustin, Texas, United States
Company sitecognition.ai
LanguagesFrench, Spanish
UniversityStanford University
Project ManagementPartner OnboardingCross-functional CoordinationWeb TechnologiesRelational DatabasesMySQLDatabasesBack-End Web DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentProgrammingJSONFull-Stack DevelopmentJavaScriptDevOpsComputer AnimationData AnalysisSocial Media MarketingMachine LearningLinux System AdministrationWeb DevelopmentCloud ComputingPythonMayaAdobe Creative SuiteAfter EffectsSQLCSSHTMLDjangoAmazon Web Services (AWS)TensorFlowC#ArduinoGitPandas (Software)PostgreSQLFlaskReact.jsFirebaseMaterial-UI
Notes
- In September 2026 he publicly backed Scope Labs as a Devin consulting partner, writing: "Scope Labs is setting the bar for AI-native engineering consulting. They're helping customers build higher-leverage engineering organizations, unlock step-change gains in throughput, and move toward an AI-native development lifecycle with Devin. Excited about the model Jack Phifer, Cory O'Shea, and the team are building together with Cognition." Together with the zeb post.Sep 24, 2026Scope Labs is setting the bar for AI-native engineering consulting. They’re helping customers build higher-leverage engineering organizations, unlock step-change gains in throughput, and move toward an AI-native development lifecycle with Devin. Excited about the model Jack Phifer, Cory O'Shea, and the team are building together with Cognition.
- In September 2026 he publicly announced Cognition's partnership with zeb, writing: "Cloud agents are rapidly reshaping what engineering teams can accomplish. It's critical to partner with a team that matches that urgency and has the technical depth to move quickly. Excited about our work with zeb to accelerate enterprise engineering with Devin. We're just getting started".Sep 22, 2026Cloud agents are rapidly reshaping what engineering teams can accomplish. It’s critical to partner with a team that matches that urgency and has the technical depth to move quickly. Excited about our work with zeb to accelerate enterprise engineering with Devin. We’re just getting started 🚀
- Promoted to Partner Director at Cognition in May 2026 after roughly nine months in GTM Ops (Aug 2025 - May 2026), a move from internal operations to owning channel and services partnerships for Devin.May 2026
- Joined Windsurf as Partner Ops in June 2025, weeks before Cognition acquired Windsurf in July 2025; his LinkedIn marks the Windsurf role 'Acquired by Cognition' and he moved onto Cognition's payroll in August 2025.Jun 2025
- He has gone from Partner Ops at an acquired company (Jun 2025) to Partner Director at the acquirer (May 2026) in under a year.May 2026
- Kyle Coapman's March 2026 'I've joined Cognition' post names Patton Jones as one of the GTM team building Cognition's go-to-market engine, alongside Salima Ghadimi, Guilherme Grupenmacher, Eddie Mattout, Calvin Giroud, Nicholas Erdenberger and Russell Kaplan.Mar 27, 2026
- Checkmarx thanked 'the great team at Cognition Windsurf', naming Brian Smitches, Zach Diamond and Patton Jones, after the Cognition booth at AWS re:Invent in December 2025, where Checkmarx Developer Assist was demoed inside the Windsurf IDE. This is an early example of the technology partnerships he worked on.Dec 4, 2025
- Squaredeal was accepted into the Techstars Austin 2023 cohort. Colin Gardiner's Mentor Madness post lists 'Squaredeal - Patton Jones Davis Jones' among the accepted companies.Feb 24, 2023
- At AgVend (Oct 2023 - Jun 2025) he went from Project Manager, Partner Onboarding to Solutions Engineer to Data Ops Lead, Growth. AgVend makes white-labeled SaaS for the largest ag retailers in North America, and he helped build a standardized ledger for agricultural data moving through the supply chain. Partner onboarding there leads straight into his partner ops work at Windsurf.Oct 2023
- Founded Sansaba Logistics (Mar 2023 - Apr 2024) to build operational software for regional meat processing plants with direct-to-consumer supply chains, aimed at 'supporting the independent beef industry'.Mar 2023
- Patton was Squaredeal's Co-Founder & CTO (May 2020 - Sep 2022) and then CEO through March 2023. His LinkedIn calls it a 'business in a box SaaS for SMBs' with a built-in regional marketplace.May 2020
- Public headline says "Partnerships @ Cognition".
Experience
Partner Director at Cognition
May 2026 - Present
Austin, Texas, United States
GTM Ops at Cognition
Aug 2025 - May 2026
Austin, Texas, United States
Partner Ops at Windsurf
Jun 2025 - Sep 2025
Austin, Texas, United States
Acquired by Cognition
Data Ops Lead, Growth at AgVend
Jan 2025 - Jun 2025
Austin, Texas, United States
whitelabeled system of action SaaS for largest ag retailers in north america. Helped build out a standardized ledger for agricultural data moving through supply chain
Solutions Engineer at AgVend
Jun 2024 - Jan 2025
Austin, Texas, United States
Project Manager, Partner Onboarding at AgVend
Oct 2023 - Jun 2024
Austin, Texas, United States
Founder at Sansaba Logistics
Mar 2023 - Apr 2024
Austin, Texas, United States
Supporting the independent beef industry -- Building operational software for regional meat processing plants with direct to consumer supply chains.
Co-Founder & CEO (Techstars '23) at Squaredeal
May 2020 - Mar 2023
Austin, Texas, United States
Business in a box SaaS for SMBs differentiating through a built in marketplace scoped by geographical region. Techstars Austin cohort 2023
Education
Stanford University
Jan 2010 - Jan 2014
Bachelor of Arts - BA, International Relations and Affairs
Projects
Squaredeal / CTX Market
Sansaba Logistics
Eazl
StreamATX
AchievementsSquaredeal accepted into Techstars Austin 2023 · Eazl's Career Hacking course enrolled ~100,000 students
AcceleratorsTechstars Austin 2023
Recent posts
September 2026
Scope Labs is setting the bar for AI-native engineering consulting. They’re helping customers build higher-leverage engineering organizations, unlock step-change gains in throughput, and move toward an AI-native development lifecycle with Devin. Excited about the model Jack Phifer, Cory O'Shea, and the team are building together with Cognition.
Cloud agents are rapidly reshaping what engineering teams can accomplish. It’s critical to partner with a team that matches that urgency and has the technical depth to move quickly. Excited about our work with zeb to accelerate enterprise engineering with Devin. We’re just getting started 🚀
Profiles
Network
ConnectionsKyle Coapman (Cognition GTM Ops) · Russell Kaplan (Cognition) · Marcel Schwager (Cognition partnerships) · Jack Phifer, Cory O'Shea (Scope Labs) · Brian Smitches, Zach Diamond (Cognition/Windsurf, Checkmarx partnership)
