Summary
Ido Pesok is a software engineer with seven years of experience building AI-first products and developer tooling, currently a Member of Technical Staff at Cognition after a series of roles at Vercel where he worked on the v0 agent. He co-founded Energize AI to explore AI alignment and shipped agent-oriented projects like Spark (an AI email scheduler) backed by an OpenAI grant, demonstrating founder-level product instincts. Ido blends front-end leadership with LLM integration experience from Sequoia Port and production engineering chops from Amazon and startup work, routinely shipping end-to-end features. Based in Irvine, CA, he studied Computer Science with an AI/ML concentration at Cal Poly and stays active in AI communities and tooling. Colleagues describe him as someone who pushes the frontier of what's possible—comfortable both architecting systems and iterating quickly on experiments that bridge research and product.
7 years of coding experience