Jared Palmer

He grew up in New York, attended CornellCornell UniversityCornell University is a private research university in Ithaca, New York, and a member of the Ivy League. It is New York State's federal land-grant university, a distinction unique within the Ivy League. Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White founded the university in 1865, and it opened in 1868. In addition to its Ithaca campus, Cornell operates Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell Tech in New York City and a medical college in Qatar. It enrolled 26,793 students in fall 2024. Its president is Michael I. Kotlikoff.Open the full entry and interned at Goldman SachsGoldman SachsGoldman Sachs is an American financial services group headquartered in New York whose businesses include investment banking, securities trading, asset management, and wealth management. It traces its origins to the commercial paper business Marcus Goldman founded in 1869; it listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1999 under the ticker GS and became a bank holding company in 2008. David Solomon serves as chairman and chief executive officer.Open the full entry. Around 2013, after college, he moved into freelance design and software development. The internship convinced him banking was not for him; prototyping in Framer helped him learn programming.⁠[1]

Vercel acquired his Turborepo build system and open-sourced its CLI. Also the creator of Formik and TSDX, he joined Vercel to develop build tooling.⁠[2]

He announced his departure from Vercel, reflecting on his teams’ work on Turborepo, AI SDK, shadcn/ui and v0. He said the acquisition earn-out was complete and that he wanted time to explore his next step.⁠[3]

He announced that he had joined Cognition to lead engineering, thanking Microsoft and Xbox colleagues for the preceding year.⁠[4]

Cognition announced his appointment as VP of Engineering, noting his earlier roles as GitHub SVP and Xbox VP of Engineering.⁠[5]

He released the Kev family of decision models ranging from 0.8 to 27 billion parameters, with Apache-2.0 weights and code for local use and fine-tuning. The models score supplied answer options; they do not generate explanations or retrieve missing facts.⁠[6]

He argued that faster AI code generation makes judgment important beyond reviewing output: developers should apply it earlier to defining problems, dividing work and avoiding unnecessary complexity.⁠[7]

Personal Website: Personal links: https://jaredpalmer.com/ (opens in a new window)⁠[8]

Cognition: Official link: https://cognition.ai/ (opens in a new window)⁠[8]

Vercel: Official link: https://vercel.com/ (opens in a new window)⁠[8]

GitHub: Official link: https://github.com/ (opens in a new window)⁠[8]

Xbox: Official link: https://xbox.com/ (opens in a new window)⁠[8]

X: Public account: https://x.com/jaredpalmer (opens in a new window)⁠[9]

LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry: Public profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaredlpalmer/ (opens in a new window)⁠[10]