Walden Yan is a co-founder of Cognition, the company behind Devin, an autonomous AI software engineer. Public company materials and profiles describe him as co-founder alongside Scott Wu and Steven Hao, with a product-focused leadership role for the Devin coding agent.123
At a glance
- Current role
- Co-founder
- Company
- Cognition
- Fields
- Developer tools, Agents, Language models
- Sources cited
- 3
- Profile reviewed
Accomplishments
Cognition and Devin
Cognition launched Devin as an AI software engineer that plans, writes, tests, and ships code. Yan is consistently listed among the founding team with Wu and Hao in coverage and partner case studies.231
Timeline
- Co-founded Cognition.2
Where they work
- Cognition 5 people in the wiki
Related people
- Shawn WangAlso at Cognition
- Steven HaoAlso at Cognition
- Scott WuAlso at Cognition
- Jared PalmerAlso at Cognition
- Johnny HoLanguage models · Agents
- Harrison ChaseAgents · Developer tools
- Binyuan HuiAgents · Language models
- Arvind NeelakantanLanguage models · Agents
- Atty EletiDeveloper tools · Language models
- Michele CatastaAgents · Language models
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References
3 sources · profile reviewed Oct 24, 2026 · data updated Oct 24, 2026