Sofia Bodnar
i am a cs student at the 
University of Waterloo. i view myself as extremely ambitious, obsessed, and resilient.
some wins:
- interned @ shopify
at 17 yrs old - in high school, i worked as a software engineer across 3 yc / a16z startups and published 2 papers with an
prof - started from complete, absolute zero after moving from ukraine, and i take great pride in that
built infrastructure for reliable AI agents across evaluation, memory, data pipelines, and dynamic workflows.
built memory, retrieval, and evaluation infrastructure for self-improving agents—spanning entity resolution, adaptive RAG, durable citations, bi-temporal memory, and hallucination defense—while researching RL and predictive world models.
worked with the team behind Maia, human-like chess models that predict how people play across skill levels; built a dynamic data-selection method that lets a teacher model choose which examples a student learns from.
built agent-driven financial workflows for an all-in-one trading platform spanning prediction markets, perpetual futures, crypto, and equities.
MUVERA and ColBERT v2 for late-interaction search.