Engineering · Human Software Engineer

Andrew He

“Building Cognition”

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Joined
Nov 2023
How they joined
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Before Cognition
ModalSoftware Engineer
Olympiads
IOI gold 2014, 2015IOI 2014GoldIOI 2015Gold
Overlapped before Cognition
“Finally able to show off what I've been working on: the world's first AI software engineer.”
Founding Engineer · Mar 2024 · X
Sources1arxiv.org2arxiv.org3ucup.ac4cphof.org5cphof.org6stats.ioinformatics.org7stats.ioinformatics.org8linkedin.com9linkedin.com

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Researched with Autumn · 2026-11-04
Details
LocationCupertino, California, United States
Company sitecognition.ai
UniversityMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Software DevelopmentC++PythonJavaAlgorithms
Notes
  • On 2024-03-12 he posted, word for word: "Finally able to show off what I've been working on: the world's first AI software engineer. Devin's the first agent capable of doing a full edit-compile-test-debug loop, meaning it can actually iteratively build and debug real projects. It's pretty amazing what Devin can do, check out the thread for some crazy examples."Mar 12, 2024Finally able to show off what I've been working on: the world's first AI software engineer. Devin's the first agent capable of doing a full edit-compile-test-debug loop, meaning it can actually iteratively build and debug real projects. It's pretty amazing what Devin can do, check out the thread for some crazy examples.
  • At IOI 2014 in Taipei, all four members of the US team won gold: Andrew He, Steven Hao, Scott Wu and Joshua Brakensiek. Scott Wu later co-founded Cognition and Steven Hao is also on the team, so the Cognition founding group traces back to this 2014 olympiad team.2014
  • A March 2024 Codeforces post lists him among the competitive programmers on Cognition's team, alongside Scott Wu (scott_wu), Steven Hao (stevenkplus), Walden Yan (walnutwaldo20), Neal Wu and Adhyyan Sekhsaria.Mar 2024
  • Joined Cognition in Nov 2023 as a founding engineer (LinkedIn title 'Human Software Engineer'), months before Devin's public launch on 2024-03-12.Nov 2023
  • Won the 2021 Facebook Hacker Cup and peaked at a Codeforces rating of about 3843 (Legendary Grandmaster).2021
  • At the 2019 ICPC World Finals in Porto, his MIT team with Kevin Sun and Yinzhan Xu placed 2nd in the world and 1st in North America. The team was coached by CSAIL PI Martin Rinard with team captain Aleksandar Zlateski.Apr 2019
  • At MIT he competed at the 2016 ICPC World Finals on team 'MIT ZERO' with Brian Chen and Steven Hao, winning silver and placing 6th. The same Steven Hao was later his colleague at Cognition.2016
  • Placed 16th of 311 for a gold medal at IOI 2014 (score 472). The next year he placed 3rd of 322 for gold at IOI 2015 in Almaty (score 555.72).2015
  • His current NAC-NAPC trainer bio says he is a Software Engineer at Cognition building collaborative AI teammates, including the world's first AI engineer. He still coaches North American ICPC finalists while working at Cognition.
  • On 2025-09-02, at the ICPC World Finals in Baku, he went head to head with David 'SecondThread' Harmeyer speed-solving Kotlin Heroes problems in a JetBrains livestream hosted by Sebastian Aigner. JetBrains billed him as a two-time IOI gold medalist, ICPC World Finals medalist, double Google Code Jam medalist and Hacker Cup champion.Sep 2, 2025
  • A 2022 NAC-NAPC trainer bio lists him as a Software Engineer at Impira in San Francisco, working on distributed systems for managing complex image and video data. He was a trainer for that North American ICPC championship camp at UCF.May 2022
  • He was a USACO finalist (training camp) in 2013, 2014 and 2015, a USAMO winner in 2013 and attended MOP (the Math Olympiad Program) in 2012, 2013 and 2014. He also taught classes at A-Star competitive programming camps.2013

People they worked with before

Steven HaoA Simple Proof of the Cayley Formula… (2013)Scott WuA Simple Proof of the Cayley Formula… (2013)Kevin SunUSA1 (Universal Cup) 2025Gennady KorotkevichUSA1 (Universal Cup) 2025Daniel ChiuUnited States of America IOI team 2015Adam ZweigerMITAidan Blum LevineMITAlbert TamMITAllen LiuMITCalvin HuangMITDev ChhedaMITElliot En-Yi LiuMIT

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