- Joined Cognition
- Jul 2025
- How they joined
- With Windsurf
- Before Windsurf
- VyondAccounting Manager
- Status
- Current
Overlapped before Cognition
Details
LocationSan Francisco Bay Area
Company sitecognition.com
UniversityBoston University - School of Management
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Notes
- On 2026-05-06 he posted on LinkedIn, verbatim: "We're hiring a Senior Accountant at Cognition! We're growing fast, and we need someone to help build out the accounting function alongside us." (50 reactions, 1 comment).May 6, 2026We're hiring a Senior Accountant at Cognition! We're growing fast, and we need someone to help build out the accounting function alongside us. This isn't a role where you'll be plugged into one narrow workstream at a big company. You'll be hands-on across the full close, working with a small team in a fast-moving environment where your work directly impacts how we operate and scale. If you're early in your career, hungry to grow, and want to be part of building something from the ground up at one of the most exciting AI companies out there, feel free to reach out! #hiring #accounting #sta
- Controller at Cognition since Jul 2025, the same month Cognition agreed to acquire Windsurf.Jul 2025
- In the same post he describes the work: "You'll be hands-on across the full close, working with a small team in a fast-moving environment where your work directly impacts how we operate and scale.".May 6, 2026We're hiring a Senior Accountant at Cognition! We're growing fast, and we need someone to help build out the accounting function alongside us. This isn't a role where you'll be plugged into one narrow workstream at a big company. You'll be hands-on across the full close, working with a small team in a fast-moving environment where your work directly impacts how we operate and scale. If you're early in your career, hungry to grow, and want to be part of building something from the ground up at one of the most exciting AI companies out there, feel free to reach out! #hiring #accounting #sta
- Cognition's acquisition of Windsurf (signed 2025-07-14) included Windsurf's IP, product, trademark and brand, $82M of ARR and 350+ enterprise customers; folding that revenue base into Cognition's books is the core context for his Controller role.Jul 14, 2025
- Senior Accounting Manager at Windsurf (Oct 2024 - Jul 2025), joining one month before the Windsurf Editor launched in Nov 2024.Oct 2024
- He pitched the role to early-career accountants as a chance to be part of "building something from the ground up at one of the most exciting AI companies out there," so the accounting function is still being built out, and he is the hiring manager to approach.May 6, 2026We're hiring a Senior Accountant at Cognition! We're growing fast, and we need someone to help build out the accounting function alongside us. This isn't a role where you'll be plugged into one narrow workstream at a big company. You'll be hands-on across the full close, working with a small team in a fast-moving environment where your work directly impacts how we operate and scale. If you're early in your career, hungry to grow, and want to be part of building something from the ground up at one of the most exciting AI companies out there, feel free to reach out! #hiring #accounting #sta
- Two months after the Windsurf deal Cognition closed a $400M round at a $10.2B valuation, which raised the scale and reporting demands on the controllership he took over.Sep 8, 2025
- The deal came days after Google hired Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen and research leaders in a $2.4B arrangement, and after OpenAI's $3B offer expired; Jeff Wang, former head of business, was interim CEO when Cognition bought the company.Jul 11, 2025
- Senior Associate at Scout RFP (May 2018 - Jun 2020, San Francisco). Workday completed its acquisition of Scout RFP on 2019-12-09, so this was the first of two acquisitions he has been through as an employee; Windsurf/Cognition was the second.Dec 9, 2019
- After the acquisition, Windsurf was renamed Devin Desktop via an over-the-air update (2026-06-02), and the Cascade agent reached end of life on 2026-07-01, so the product line he supported is now part of Devin.Jun 2, 2026
- Public headline says "Accounting @ Cognition AI".
- Windsurf began as Exafunction (GPU workload optimization, 2021), became Codeium in 2022, launched the Windsurf Editor in Nov 2024 and renamed itself Windsurf in Apr 2025.Apr 2025
At company sinceJul 1, 2025
Previous roleWindsurf
Experience
Controller at Cognition
Jul 2025 - Present
San Francisco, California, United States
Senior Accounting Manager at Windsurf
Oct 2024 - Jul 2025
Accounting Manager at Vyond
Sep 2021 - Apr 2024
Accounting Manager at Halio, Inc.
Aug 2020 - Sep 2021
Senior Associate at Scout RFP, a Workday company
May 2018 - Jun 2020
San Francisco, CA
Staff / Senior at EY
Jul 2014 - Aug 2017
Boston, MA
Education
Boston University - School of Management
B.S. Business Administration, Accounting, Operations and Technology Management
Minor: Economics
Credentials
CPA
Recent posts
May 2026
We're hiring a Senior Accountant at Cognition! We're growing fast, and we need someone to help build out the accounting function alongside us. This isn't a role where you'll be plugged into one narrow workstream at a big company. You'll be hands-on across the full close, working with a small team in a fast-moving environment where your work directly impacts how we operate and scale. If you're early in your career, hungry to grow, and want to be part of building something from the ground up at one of the most exciting AI companies out there, feel free to reach out! #hiring #accounting #sta
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