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# Thanos Baskous
Co-founder & VP of Engineering at Cogent Security, scaling architecture and team cultures.

## About

Thanos Baskous builds infrastructure for high-security environments. He is currently the co-founder and VP of Engineering at Cogent Security, an AI-native vulnerability management platform.

Before starting Cogent, he ran infrastructure at Coinbase during a critical growth phase and drove DevOps transformation as Chief Architect at Blackstone. He also held senior engineering roles at Twitter and TellApart.

His talks unpack what it actually takes to keep engineering cultures intact. He breaks down how teams can survive rapid scaling and adapt to the realities of AI-native software development.


## Upcoming Sessions

### World Congress 2026 North America · September 23, 2026
San José, CA
- [Culture Doesn't Scale Itself: Leading Engineering Teams Through Hypergrowth and the AI Transition](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1411-culture-doesn-t)





## Links

- [X](https://x.com/cogent_security)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/thanosbaskous/)
- [Blog](https://www.cogent.com/blog)