Hi, I'm Jared Zoneraich

Cognition, Builder in Residence

Building Devin — the first AI software engineer

Formerly

• PromptLayer, Founder & CEO 2021–2026 Built the first developer platform for prompt engineering. Raised $5M+ from great investors. Grew to $1M ARR and a team of 15. (TechCrunch coverage)
• Tecton (acquired by Databricks), Software Engineer 2021
• Alsop Louie Partners, Associate 2020
• Facebook, Software Engineering 2019
• reddit, Office of the CEO 2015

• IronNet Cybersecurity, Cyber Research 2018
• Google, Software Engineering 2017
• Implisit (acquired by Salesforce), Software Engineer 2016
• Major League Hacking, Partnerships 2015
• Warby Parker, Software Engineering 2014
• Newlio, Software Engineering 2012

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Education

• UC Berkeley, B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 2019

Projects

• Montalvo Analytics 2020 Data analytics for America's largest reform campaigns.
• Presidio Jeans 2019 Denim jeans brand made in the USA.
• Startup Sift 2017 Webapp to help engineers discover exciting startups to work for.
• hackBCA, Founder 2015 First ever high school hackathon hosting over 1,000 students.
• Hackathon Consulting 2014 Helping companies like Intel better reach student developers.
• Learn to Drive, TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon Winner 2013 In-car app to teach new drivers. Featured and invited to speak.

Writings & Posts

• The reason Devin is having such a comeback 2026
• Solving ~40 year old open math problems 2026
• Let's Believe in Miracles Again 2025

• Every Agent Should Be a VM 2025
• LLM Idioms 2025
• The Death of Prompt Engineering Has Been Greatly Exaggerated 2025

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Talks & Podcasts

• Building Verifiable Agents (Peter Yang Podcast) 2026
• The $5M Prompt Engineer (The Jason Levin Show) 2025
• Prompt Engineering Conversation with Stephen Wolfram 2023

• How Claude Code Works (AI Engineer Conference) 2025
• How to Win With Prompt Engineering (Dan Shipper Podcast) 2024

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