Steven Hao is co-founder and CTO of Cognition, the company behind the Devin AI software engineer. Forbes and company materials list him with co-founders Scott Wu and Walden Yan; public talks describe technical leadership for Cognition's coding agents.123
At a glance
- Current role
- Co-founder and CTO
- Company
- Cognition
- Fields
- Developer tools, Agents
- Sources cited
- 3
- Profile reviewed
Accomplishments
- Co-founder and CTO of Cognition (Devin).1
Cognition CTO
As CTO, Hao helps lead engineering for Devin and related Cognition products that automate software engineering workflows for teams.12
Timeline
- Co-founded Cognition.2
Where they work
- Cognition 5 people in the wiki
Related people
- Jared PalmerAlso at Cognition
- Shawn WangAlso at Cognition
- Walden YanAlso at Cognition
- Scott WuAlso at Cognition
- Josh WoodwardDeveloper tools · Agents
- Alex FinnDeveloper tools · Agents
- Robert BrennanAgents · Developer tools
- Arvind NeelakantanAgents · Developer tools
- Manik SurtaniAgents · Developer tools
- Thomas KurianAgents · Developer tools
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3 sources · profile reviewed Oct 24, 2026 · data updated Oct 24, 2026