- Joined
- Oct 2025
- How they joined
- Directly
- Before Cognition
- Scale AIHead of Product, Applied AI for Education
- Status
- Current
- Joined Cognition (maker of Devin and, after the July 2025 Windsurf acquisition, Windsurf) as Deployed Engineering Lead in October 2025; his LinkedIn describes the role as 'Founding team for EMEA, responsible for $XXM'.Oct 2025
- At Scale AI (Feb 2024-Jul 2025) he was a Product Manager on the founding team for International Public Sector and the founding team for MENA.Feb 2024
- Was Chief of Staff at Warp (the Rust-based AI terminal) from Nov 2021 to Feb 2024 and lists himself as 'Employee #8'.Nov 2021
- On 30 Sep 2026 he quote-posted Cognition's CRO hire, writing word for word: "One of the Silicon Valley greats is joining Cognition as CRO".Sep 30, 2026One of the Silicon Valley greats is joining Cognition as CRO
- Reposted a LinkedIn post about Cognition's work with Comarch, which is modernizing the ~10-million-line Clarion ERP XL system with Devin ('The original plan: ~5 years. With Devin: 18 months.'); the post's author framed Poland as a market they were kickstarting with Cognition, matching his EMEA remit.Sep 18, 2026
- Was a Venture Partner at Contrary (student venture program) from 2019 to 2021; he later tweeted 'I would not be the person I am today without Contrary' and that Contrary 'changed my life and gave me wonderful friends like @rlescoezec'.Aug 25, 2025That time of year - @contrary changed my life and gave me wonderful friends like @rlescoezec VP apps are open for students!
- Moved to Cognition only about three months after becoming Head of Product, Applied AI for Education at Scale AI (Jul-Oct 2025).Jul 2025
- On 1 Oct 2026 he reposted CEO Scott Wu's public reply defending Cognition against Factory CEO Matan Grinberg's allegations.Oct 1, 2026
- Listed as a RAISE Summit 2026 speaker as 'Deployed Engineer, Cognition', alongside Cognition colleague Till Kern (Special Projects Engineer).2026
- Co-authored the IEEE TCAD paper 'Locality-Based Encoder and Model Quantization for Efficient Hyper-Dimensional Computing' (published online 29 March 2021, vol. 41 issue 4, April 2022) with Justin Morris, Yilun Hao, Mohsen Imani, Baris Aksanli and Tajana Rosing.Mar 29, 2021
- Described his Warp role in his own words: "I'm the Chief of Staff at Warp, a startup reinventing the terminal. I lead HR, hiring, recruiting, content, and some marketing. I also help out with growth."Nov 10, 2020
- Before Warp he was a Founding Software Engineer at Rely Health in the San Francisco Bay Area (Nov 2020-Nov 2021).Nov 2020
Founding team for EMEA, responsible for $XXM
Founding team for International Public Sector, founding team for MENA
Employee #8
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Product Manager intern in Xbox on the PlayFab team, shipped gifting as a service for the game economies team
Core infrastructure team
Also did a little bit of salsa dancing
One of the Silicon Valley greats is joining Cognition as CRO
That time of year - @contrary changed my life and gave me wonderful friends like @rlescoezec VP apps are open for students!
I would not be the person I am today without Contrary
Gonna go 34-0 at the club tonight
“We look forward to seeing you on another United flight” I think the fuck not
me and the rest of boarding group 11 waiting while the normal people board: https://t.co/3qYvsuF8Hw
welcome to the family!
one of the best decisions I’ve ever made
