Scott Wu
Founder and CEO of Cognition, the company behind the Devin AI software engineer and Windsurf
Scott Wu is the founder and CEO of Cognition, as Cognizant's January 2026 announcement of a partnership with the company states. Wu wrote Cognition's March 2024 post introducing Devin, an AI software engineer the post describes as a teammate that can build alongside engineers or independently complete tasks for them to review, and the July 2025 note to the Cognition team on the company's acquisition of Windsurf. Wu continues to write company announcements on Cognition's blog, including a July 2026 post welcoming The Interaction Company, the makers of Poke, to Cognition.1234
Work
Devin (external site: cognition.com)Proprietary product
Author of Cognition's March 2024 post introducing Devin, which describes the agent as a teammate that can build alongside engineers or independently complete tasks for them to review.2
Windsurf acquisition (external site: cognition.com)Proprietary product
Wrote the July 2025 note to the Cognition team, published on Cognition's blog, announcing a definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf, the agentic IDE.3
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