Derek Granito
Founder Of Cogni DAO
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Granito is a founder and builder with 7 years of experience blending product, engineering, and entrepreneurial rigor across Microsoft, e-commerce, and frontier AI organizations. He began as a Technical Program Manager at Microsoft shipping platform security features at scale, then launched and scaled Great Wake Solutions—bringing 70+ SKUs to market and automating operations that generated thousands of positive customer experiences. Today he leads CogniDAO, an open-source experiment in AI-run organizations that builds agentic, git-versioned knowledge systems and autonomous AI teams that manage their own repositories. Derek’s background combines security-minded systems design with hands-on product launches and people ops (he’s hired and managed large contingent teams down to a tight core), enabling pragmatic yet ambitious open infrastructure work. He’s particularly focused on transparency and forking-friendly tooling so communities can inspect and evolve AI-driven governance. Based in the Greater Seattle Area and trained at Cornell, he’s seeking collaborators who care about decentralized networks and AI as organizational intelligence.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Cornell University
English
Github Skills (6)
mdt9
windows8
windows-driver8
windows-defender7
microsoft7
documentation5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
degranit/windows-itpro-docs
Sep 2019 - Feb 2020
This is used for contributions to the Windows 10 content for IT professionals on docs.microsoft.com.
Contributions:6 pushes in 5 months
windowsmicrosoft-storewindows-7install-scriptprofessionals
degranit/windows-driver-docs
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
The official Windows Driver Kit documentation sources
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
driversdriverwindows-driverwindowswindows-driver-kit
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