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Jared Palmer

VP of Engineering, Cognition

Jared Palmer is the VP of Engineering at Cognition, the company behind the Devin software engineering agent. Palmer's site says that, as VP of AI at Vercel, Palmer created the AI SDK and v0, after Vercel acquired Palmer's build-system startup Turborepo in late 2021, and that Palmer later served as SVP of Product at GitHub and VP of Engineering at Xbox. Palmer is the first-listed author of Vercel's June 2023 post introducing the AI SDK.123

At a glance

Current role
VP of Engineering
Company
Cognition
Sector
Company
Work listed
3
Sources cited
6
Profile reviewed

Career

Palmer ran a software development and design studio before founding Turborepo, a build-system startup that Vercel acquired in late 2021. At Vercel, Palmer became VP of AI. Palmer's site lists later roles as SVP of Product at GitHub and VP of Engineering at Xbox, and names Palmer's current role as VP of Engineering at Cognition.12

AI SDK and v0

Palmer, with Shu Ding and Max Leiter, wrote Vercel's June 2023 announcement of the Vercel AI SDK, an open-source library for building streaming chat interfaces in JavaScript and TypeScript with React and Svelte. Palmer is also first-listed author of the March 2024 post on AI SDK 3.0, which open sourced the generative UI technology from v0.34

Palmer co-wrote the May 2024 AI SDK 3.1 post with Lars Grammel, which announced that the ModelFusion project was joining the team and introduced AI SDK Core, and appears on the author lists of later release posts including AI SDK 4.0 in November 2024.56

Work and contributions

  • AI SDK Open-source code

    Created the AI SDK while VP of AI at Vercel and was first-listed author of the June 2023 post that launched it as an open-source TypeScript library for streaming AI chat interfaces.13

  • Turborepo Open-source code

    Founded the build-system startup Turborepo, which Vercel acquired in late 2021.12

  • v0 Proprietary product

    Created v0 at Vercel; the AI SDK 3.0 post, on which Palmer is first-listed author, describes open-sourcing v0's generative UI technology through the SDK.14

Timeline

  1. Joined Vercel when it acquired Palmer's build-system startup Turborepo.1
  2. Co-authored Vercel's announcement of the open-source Vercel AI SDK.3
  3. Co-authored the AI SDK 3.0 release, which open sourced v0's generative UI technology.4
  4. Co-authored the AI SDK 3.1 release with Lars Grammel.5
  5. Listed among the authors of the AI SDK 4.0 release post.6

Other documented roles

Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.

  • VP of Engineering at Xbox (past), Microsoft (Xbox)1
  • SVP of Product (past), GitHub12
  • VP of AI (past); joined through Vercel's acquisition of Turborepo in late 2021, Vercel12

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References

6 sources · profile reviewed Oct 22, 2026 · data updated Oct 22, 2026

  1. Jared Palmer — homepageJared Palmer · Official page · accessed Oct 22, 2026
  2. jaredpalmer (Jared Palmer) on GitHubGitHub · Official page · accessed Oct 22, 2026
  3. Introducing the Vercel AI SDK — Vercel blogVercel · Announcement · published Jun 15, 2023 · accessed Oct 22, 2026
  4. Introducing AI SDK 3.0 with Generative UI support — Vercel blogVercel · Announcement · published Mar 1, 2024 · accessed Oct 22, 2026
  5. Vercel AI SDK 3.1: ModelFusion joins the team — Vercel blogVercel · Announcement · published May 2, 2024 · accessed Oct 22, 2026
  6. AI SDK 4.0 — Vercel blogVercel · Release notes · published Nov 18, 2024 · accessed Oct 22, 2026