# Lucas Kim

![Lucas Kim](/resources/cognition/portraits/lucas-kim.webp)

Member of Technical Staff (Agents) at Cognition; Waterloo SE; ex-Rox Workflow Builder & Inbound Agent  
Cognition  
San Francisco, California, United States

## At Cognition

- Role: Member of Technical Staff (Engineering)
- Joined: May 2026
- How they joined: Directly
- Before Cognition: Engineering Intern, Rox

## Identity
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucaskim65
- GitHub: https://github.com/raptors65
- Website: https://lucaskamadakim.com/
- Domain: cognition.ai

## Notes
- 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). (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucaskim65)
- 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'. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rox-data-corp_celebrating-lucas-kim-happy-last-internship-activity-7455744742023278593-Gyv2)
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rox-data-corp_celebrating-lucas-kim-happy-last-internship-activity-7455744742023278593-Gyv2)
- Took on a Cognition MTS role while still listed as a University of Waterloo Software Engineering student (BSE, 2024-2029). (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucaskim65)
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rox-data-corp_launch-the-agent-free-in-2-minutes-ugcPost-7455304854354300928-WyTe)
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lucaskim65_rox-on-autopilot-is-officially-live-and-activity-7444863755294941184-ZjSl)
- Also kept a 'Technical Advisor' role at Rox from May 2026, the same month he started at Cognition. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucaskim65)
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucaskim65)
- Named a Neo Scholar Finalist in 2026 (Neo's program for top student engineers). (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucaskim65)
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lucaskim65_we-won-a-y-combinator-interview-and-2k-credits-activity-7393707771809955840-4GGW)
- Lavoe, a 'Cursor for music production', won the largest prize ($10K cash) at Hack the North 2025. (https://lucaskamadakim.com/projects/)
- 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. (https://github.com/raptors65)
- Public headline says "Building @ Cognition". (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucaskim65)
- Rox's goodbye post says he joined 'as a sophomore from University of Waterloo' and links a 'Behind the build blog from Lucas' about the workflow builder. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rox-data-corp_celebrating-lucas-kim-happy-last-internship-activity-7455744742023278593-Gyv2)
- Production Engineering Fellow with Meta & Major League Hacking, Jun-Sep 2025. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucaskim65)
- Software Engineer Intern at Shopify on the Lending team in Toronto, May-Aug 2025. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucaskim65)
- RBC Innovation Developer (Summer Tech Labs), Jul-Aug 2024: built and deployed a mortgage calculator with Angular, Spring Boot, Jenkins and OpenShift for more than 180,000 clients. Teammates were Fiona Cai, Keya Khamar and Bryan Peart, and he thanked Niloy G. and Soroush M. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lucaskim65_programming-webdev-internship-activity-7231033519458639872--nPx)
- Hey! I’m a Software Engineering student at the University of Waterloo. I love all things tech, from coding robots to participating in hackathons. Feel free to reach out!; this comes from the profile summary and preserves the person's own positioning. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucaskim65)
- ChipChat, which generates an interactive schematic and a manufacturing-ready GDSII file from a prompt, won the $5K grand prize at the UC Berkeley AI Hackathon. (https://lucaskamadakim.com/projects/)
- Other hackathon wins: Pianowise (Best AI Accessibility Hack, GenAI Genesis 2025), capitalX (Best Hack Using Expo and Best Use of LLMs, HackPrinceton) and Debug Debacle (3rd overall, McHacks 12). His site says he has won prizes at 8 hackathons. (https://lucaskamadakim.com/projects/)
- Robotics track: FIRST LEGO League builder and programmer from grade 5 (Robot Performance and Strategy & Innovation awards); FRC Game Design Challenge 3D model in grade 9 that helped win the Rookie Design Award; FRC programmer and driver in grades 11-12; Software Lead of FRC team Audeamus 8574 in 2023-24. (https://lucaskamadakim.com/experience/hobbies/)
- Alex Noviello's post: 'I've really enjoyed the process of building Workflows with Taeuk Kang, Lucas Kim, and Yuma Tanaka!' (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alex-noviello-951233209_rox-agent-workflows-are-live-and-already-ugcPost-7447111769329926144-XUSk)
- Rox's launch post for the workflow builder thanked 'Taeuk Kang, Yuma Tanaka, Lucas Kim, Alex Noviello, and the entire eng team for the insane build'. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rox-data-corp_2x-free-agent-actions-ugcPost-7445258450613223424-Xlhm)
- Hackathon history starts with volunteering at Hack the North in 2022. He also won 1st place at Recess Hacks 3.0 (Dreamland Buddies) and at CTRL+HACK+DEL (ShadeFindr). (https://lucaskamadakim.com/experience/hobbies/)
- Previous roles include Engineering Intern at Rox; Software Engineer Intern at Block; Scholar Finalist at Neo; Production Engineering Fellow at Meta & Major League Hacking; Software Engineer Intern at Shopify; Innovation Developer at RBC; Software Lead at Audeamus 8574; Programmer at MGCI Robotics. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucaskim65)
- Location is San Francisco, California, United States. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucaskim65)

## Experience
- Member of Technical Staff at Cognition (May 2026 - Present): 🤖 Agents
- Technical Advisor at Rox (May 2026 - Present)
- Engineering Intern at Rox - San Francisco, California, United States (Jan 2026 - Apr 2026): ⚡️ Agent Workflows
- Software Engineer Intern at Block (May 2026 - May 2026): 🪿 goose
- Scholar Finalist at Neo (Jan 2026 - Jan 2026)
- Production Engineering Fellow at Meta & Major League Hacking (Jun 2025 - Sep 2025)
- Software Engineer Intern at Shopify - Toronto, Ontario, Canada (May 2025 - Aug 2025): 🛍️ Lending
- Innovation Developer at RBC - Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Jul 2024 - Aug 2024): 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
- Software Lead at Audeamus 8574 - Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Jul 2023 - Jun 2024): Led the development of the team's robot code along with a revamp of the team's website
- Programmer at MGCI Robotics - Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Sep 2021 - Jul 2023): • Translated robot code from C++ to Java for easier software development
• Created a physics simulation for the drivetrain and arm of the robot, allowing robot code to be tested remotely
- Game Designer at MGCI Robotics - Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Sep 2020 - Sep 2021): • Created a 3D model of the playing field for a robotics game with Marc Garneau CI
• The designed game won the Rookie Design Award in the FIRST Game Design Challenge
- Tootor Chief Website Manager at New Arts Toronto (Jul 2023 - Sep 2023): • Managed a tutoring service with 60+ tutors and 500+ tutoring sessions per month
• Led weekly meetings to discuss changes and potential new features for the website
• Adjusted colour contrast and metadata to comply with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
• Wrote and published daily social media posts on Instagram, X, and Threads leading up to the 2023-24 school year
• Conducted a media launch; found media contacts and emailed them a press release
- Tootor Website Co-Manager at New Arts Toronto (May 2023 - Jul 2023): • Implemented streaming, voice support, interactive activities, and function calling into a GPT-3.5 AI tutor
- Quality Assurance Analyst at GoalLine Solutions - Burlington, Ontario, Canada (Jun 2023 - Aug 2023): • Tested functionality, user interface, and calculations to ensure they followed specifications
- Software Engineer Intern at North P&D, Inc. - Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Mar 2023 - Jun 2023): • Helped implement a website design for a client using Webflow
• Added new clients to the company website
• Submitted 12 pull requests implementing various features on the company's website, including English-French translation using react-i18next and improved loading speed

## Education
- University of Waterloo - Bachelor of Software Engineering - BSE, Software Engineering - (Sep 2024 - Apr 2029): President's Scholarship of Distinction
- Shad Canada: • 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

## Sources
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucaskim65
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rox-data-corp_celebrating-lucas-kim-happy-last-internship-activity-7455744742023278593-Gyv2
- https://lucaskamadakim.com/projects/
- https://github.com/raptors65
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lucaskim65_we-won-a-y-combinator-interview-and-2k-credits-activity-7393707771809955840-4GGW
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lucaskim65_rox-on-autopilot-is-officially-live-and-activity-7444863755294941184-ZjSl
- https://lucaskamadakim.com/experience/hobbies/
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/cognition-ai-labs/posts
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lucaskim65_programming-webdev-internship-activity-7231033519458639872--nPx
- https://lucaskamadakim.com/
- https://devpost.com/lucaskamadakim
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cognition-ai-labs_introducing-fusion-in-devin-desktop-cli-activity-7504212748285825024-NXSe
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rox-data-corp_launch-the-agent-free-in-2-minutes-ugcPost-7455304854354300928-WyTe
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alex-noviello-951233209_rox-agent-workflows-are-live-and-already-ugcPost-7447111769329926144-XUSk
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rox-data-corp_2x-free-agent-actions-ugcPost-7445258450613223424-Xlhm


Researched with Autumn (https://www.autumn.ai) from public sources. Updated 2026-11-04. Profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/lucas-kim · Everyone at Cognition: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people