Scott Wu
Co-founder and CEO of Cognition, the company behind Devin.
- Scott Wu is the co-founder and chief executive of Cognition, which builds Devin.
- He was born in Louisiana and studied at Harvard for two years.
- He won three IOI gold medals and placed first in 2014.
- Before Cognition he co-founded Lunchclub and was its CTO.
Why it matters. For people following AI coding agents; as CEO he wrote the post that introduced Devin in March 2024.
- Current role
- Co-founder and CEO of Cognition1
- IOI
- Gold for the United States in 2012, 2013 and 2014; ranked first in 20142
- Other contests
- ICPC 2016 gold medal; third in Google Code Jam 20211
- Education
- Harvard University, two years, left without graduating1
- Earlier work
- Software engineer at Addepar (2014–2015); co-founded Lunchclub in 2017, CTO until 20221
- Family
- His brother Neal Wu, also an IOI gold medalist, works at Cognition1
Writing to start with
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Introducing Devin, the first AI software engineer (opens cognition.com)
His launch post for Devin, which resolved 13.86% of SWE-bench issues end to end.
Links
Sources
- Scott Wu - Wikipedia (opens en.wikipedia.org) read 1 Oct 2026
- Scott Wu - IOI Statistics (opens stats.ioinformatics.org) read 1 Oct 2026
- Introducing Devin, the first AI software engineer (opens cognition.com) read 1 Oct 2026
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