About
Thanos Baskous is cofounder and VP of Engineering at Cogent Security, a company developing AI-based tools for vulnerability management. He previously led the Core Infrastructure group at Coinbase, served as Chief Architect at Blackstone, and worked at Twitter and TellApart, the latter of which he joined following its acquisition of AdStack, a company he cofounded and served as CTO. He co-created The Open Guide to Amazon Web Services, an open source AWS reference, and held earlier roles at Capital IQ.
Co-Founder & VP of Engineering at Cogent
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Experience
- Cogent SecurityCofounder & VP Engineeringcurrent2024 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- CoinbaseHead of Core Infrastructure2023 — 2024
- CoinbaseDirector of Engineering2022 — 2023San Francisco Bay Area
- CoinbaseSenior Engineering Manager2020 — 2022Incline Village, Nevada, United States
- The Blackstone GroupChief Architect2017 — 2020Greater New York City Area
- TwitterTechnical Lead2015 — 2017San Francisco Bay Area
- TellApartSoftware Engineer Team Lead2013 — 2015Burlingame, CA
- AdStackCofounder & CTO2011 — 2013San Francisco, CA
- S&P Capital IQRealtime Streaming Quotes Project Lead2009 — 2010New York, New York
- S&P Capital IQVisualization Project Lead2008 — 2010New York, New York
- S&P Capital IQInfrastructure Engineer2007 — 2010New York, New York
- S&P Capital IQSoftware Engineer, Capital IQ Excel Plugin2006 — 2008New York, New York
Skills & more
Software Engineering20Web Applications13Scalability7Python7Software Development7C#4Django3PostgreSQL3Debugging3Microsoft SQL Server3.NET2Software Project Management2
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Thanos Baskous?
- Thanos Baskous is cofounder and VP of Engineering at Cogent Security, a company developing AI-based tools for vulnerability management. He previously led the Core Infrastructure group at Coinbase, served as Chief Architect at Blackstone, and worked at Twitter and TellApart, the latter of which he joined following its acquisition of AdStack, a company he cofounded and served as CTO. He co-created The Open Guide to Amazon Web Services, an open source AWS reference, and held earlier roles at Capital IQ.
- Where does Thanos Baskous work?
- Thanos Baskous is Co-Founder & VP of Engineering of Cogent.
- What companies did Thanos Baskous found?
- Thanos Baskous founded Cogent.
- Where did Thanos Baskous go to school?
- Thanos Baskous studied at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Bachelor's, Computer Science).
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Shared employers
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