- Joined
- May 2026
- How they joined
- Directly
- Before Cognition
- RoxEngineering Intern
- Status
- Current
- Joined Cognition (maker of Devin and Windsurf) as Member of Technical Staff in May 2026, with the role tagged simply 'Agents'; the timeline runs straight from his Rox internship (ended Apr 2026).May 2026
- At Rox (agentic revenue/sales startup founded by Ishan Mukherjee) he was an Engineering Intern Jan-Apr 2026 on 'Agent Workflows'. Rox said he 'owned two of the biggest bets we made this quarter: the Workflow Builder and the Inbound Agent, both core to our Rox Autopilot launch'.Apr 30, 2026
- Rox described what he built as 'essentially a coding agent purpose-built for sales workflows' and said 'Lucas built in a three month internship what entire companies build in a year'. That is direct prior work on an agent harness.Apr 30, 2026
- Took on a Cognition MTS role while still listed as a University of Waterloo Software Engineering student (BSE, 2024-2029).May 2026
- Rox's Inbound Agent launch post said 'Huge shoutout to Taeuk Kang and Lucas Kim - absolute masterminds behind this build'. The agent qualifies, routes and engages inbound leads automatically.Apr 29, 2026
- His own launch post (2026-03-31): 'Rox on Autopilot is officially live - and the centerpiece is the custom workflow builder! For the first time, sellers can automate their entire sales cycle end-to-end.' He credited Taeuk Kang, Yuma Tanaka and Alex Noviello.Mar 31, 2026
- Also kept a 'Technical Advisor' role at Rox from May 2026, the same month he started at Cognition.May 2026
- Software Engineer Intern at Block in May 2026, on goose (Block's open-source AI agent), according to the LinkedIn role description. It was a very short stint just before he joined Cognition.May 2026
- Named a Neo Scholar Finalist in 2026 (Neo's program for top student engineers).2026
- Won the Y Combinator Challenge (a YC interview) and Best Use of Dedalus Labs at HackPrinceton Fall 2025 with Discer.io, a 'Scratch, but multiplayer and for AI agents' platform. He built it with Alan Nguyen, Koushik Sarkar and Roman Slack in 36 hours.Nov 10, 2025
- Lavoe, a 'Cursor for music production', won the largest prize ($10K cash) at Hack the North 2025.Sep 2025
- GitHub raptors65 has a bio reading 'eng @CognitionAI, software eng @ uwaterloo, prev @rox-ai, @shopify, @rbc' and links to lucaskamadakim.com; it has 51 public repos and was created in 2018.Nov 2018
🤖 Agents
⚡️ Agent Workflows
🪿 goose
🛍️ Lending
Worked with an Agile team to build and deploy a mortgage calculator using Angular, Spring Boot, Jenkins, and OpenShift 4 to make it easier for 180,000+ clients to renew their mortgages
President's Scholarship of Distinction
• Participated in an intense month-long STEAM and entrepreneurship program at the Memorial University of Newfoundland with university-level lectures • Created a detailed business plan with financial projections and market analysis for a business idea aimed at improving the well-being of Canadians
Rox on Autopilot is officially live - and the centerpiece is the custom workflow builder! For the first time, sellers can automate their entire sales cycle end-to-end. Any workflow you can imagine - pipeline generation, deal management, renewals - you can build it and run it on autopilot. Here's how it works. 👇 Incredible bringing this to life with Taeuk Kang, Yuma Tanaka, and Alex Noviello. Try it free at rox.com and let us know what you build!
We won a Y Combinator interview and $2k credits + $500 cash + interview from Dedalus Labs at HackPrinceton Fall 2025! We built discer.io, a platform for learning how to build agentic workflows through a drag-and-drop interface. Basically Scratch, but multiplayer and for AI agents. discer.io consists of 2 parts: 1. A learning platform like Codecademy, where students work through interactive activities as part of a curriculum, building agents to complete various tasks. 2. An MMO where users build agents that are pitted against each other, with the goal of collecting resources and fighting o
