About
Kevin Lu studied computer science at University of Waterloo and worked at Roblox developing machine learning models for avatar generation, as well as conducting NLP research on common sense reasoning. He is now building AI-powered developer tools focused on code generation.
Kevin Lu @kevinlu1248
codex / claude cli's should add first-class support for progress bars for long tasks like eval jobs. the 2 biggest painpoints with agent's submitted / monitored jobs are: - no eta / inaccurate eta's - can't tell what's happening i think 1p support for this in the cli kills both
Jun 21, 2026 Β· β₯ 3
Kevin Lu @kevinlu1248
locally running next edit for neovim! https://t.co/I6JUw6z1ar
Jan 23, 2026 Β· β₯ 7 Β· β 1
Kevin Lu @kevinlu1248
Side effect of too much vibe coding in slack https://t.co/PcMoVmCoYP
Jan 8, 2026 Β· β₯ 1
Founder at SweepYC S23
Intro paths
Kevin went through Y Combinator (Summer 2023) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Diana Hu, General Partner at Y Combinator β the partner who ran Sweep's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
In turn, Kevin can intro founders to Sweep's investors below.
Sweep's investors Β· 2
Co-founders at Sweep
Experience
- Sweep (YC S23)Co-Founder & CTO2023 β 2026San Francisco Bay Area
- RobloxSoftware Engineer2023San Mateo, California, United States
- SkinopathyFull Stack Engineer2022
- StratumAIMachine Learning Developer2022Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Unlimited AppSoftware Engineer2021 β 2022Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Education
- University of WaterlooBachelor's degree, Computer Science2021 β 2023
- Winston Churchill High SchoolIB Diploma, None2019 β 2021
Skills & more
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Node.jsReact.jsLanguages Chinese Β· English
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Same school
Also attended University of Waterloo206
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