Steven Hao
Co-founder and CTO of Cognition, the company behind Devin.
- Steven Hao is the co-founder and chief technology officer of Cognition, which builds Devin.
- He studied computer science and mathematics at MIT.
- Before Cognition he was an early engineer at Scale AI.
- He won IOI gold for the United States in 2014.
Why it matters. For engineers following AI coding agents; as CTO he leads the engineering behind Devin, and his talks are on how coding agents change software work.
- Current role
- Co-founder and CTO of Cognition1
- Education
- Computer science and mathematics at MIT1
- Earlier work
- Early engineer at Scale AI3
- IOI
- Silver in 2013; gold in 2014, ranked sixth, for the United States2
Talks
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Taste in Software Development (JSNation 2026) (opens gitnation.com)
Short talk on how AI software engineers like Devin change development, and English as the language of building software.
Links
Sources
- Steven Hao - GitNation speaker profile (opens gitnation.com) read 1 Oct 2026
- Steven Hao - IOI Statistics (opens stats.ioinformatics.org) read 1 Oct 2026
- steven hao (@stevenkplus1) on X (opens x.com) read 1 Oct 2026
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