- Joined
- Sep 2025
- How they joined
- Directly
- Status
- Former
Details
LocationUnited States
UniversityStanford University
Notes
- Cognition published SWE-1.5 on 2025-10-29: a frontier-size model trained with end-to-end RL on the Cascade agent harness, served by Cerebras at up to 950 tok/s and shipped in Windsurf; this landed weeks after Connor joined Cognition's research team (Sep 2025) doing RL infra and evals.Oct 29, 2025
- At Flint he worked directly with the two co-founders, Michelle Lim and Maxwell Levenson; Lim wrote that the 'tiny team' still hired a sophomore (Connor) as an intern.Jul 2025
- Michelle Lim (Flint co-founder) announced on LinkedIn that Connor Fogarty started his summer internship at Flint on 2025-06-23, calling him 'the definition of the cracked AI engineer' who 'shipped dozens of AI features' during an earlier part-time internship; the intro came via the Neo team (Ali Partovi, Emily Cohen, Ameya Jadhav).Jun 23, 2025
- At bolt.new (StackBlitz) he interned on WebContainer in summer 2023, advised the GTM team on hackathons during 2023-24, and was on the team that built bolt.new in summer 2024, the product that hit $4M ARR in four weeks.2024
- Co-led TreeHacks 2025 at Stanford (billed as the largest collegiate hackathon in the US) alongside Krish Maniar and Emily Han, with a team of about 30 organizers; he is also a member of the TreeHacks GitHub org.Feb 2025
- Contributor to Quizicist, the AI multiple-choice question generator from Stanford/Brown's Cognitive Engineering Lab, alongside Will Crichton; his latest commit there is dated 2023-03-29.Mar 29, 2023
- Won Rep. Cynthia Axne's 2021 Congressional App Challenge (IA-03) with the Devs Do Good web app, together with teammates Noah Goeders, Uma Dukle and Abhushan Pradhan.2021
- Public headline says "CS @ Stanford".
- GitHub (connorff) created 2018; repos trace a path from Python/PHP school projects (2019) to TypeScript/StackBlitz work (2021) and Rust (2021-2026, incl. 'textreme' in Feb 2026). Recent public activity is pull requests to Grounded-Intelligence/celld.2026
- Contributed to Rust 1.61.0 (listed on thanks.rust-lang.org), and forked rust, rust-book, flowistry and mdbook-quiz, the latter two being Will Crichton's Rust tooling projects.May 2022
- Previous roles include Research at Cognition; Software Engineer at Flint; Software Engineer at bolt.new; Student at bolt.new.
- Location is United States.
Experience
Research at Cognition
Sep 2025 - Apr 2026
San Francisco, CA
RL infra + leading evals
Software Engineer at Flint
Mar 2025 - Sep 2025
San Francisco, California, United States
First hire; built agents + infra for the web
Software Engineer at bolt.new
Jul 2024 - Sep 2024
San Francisco, CA
Built bolt.new
Student at bolt.new
Sep 2023 - Jun 2024
Stanford, California, United States
Advised GTM team on hackathons
Software Engineer at bolt.new
Jul 2023 - Sep 2023
San Francisco, California, United States
WebContainer
Education
Stanford University
BS, Computer Science
Recent posts
October 2025
Your website should build itself 🤖 Congrats Michelle Lim, Max Levenson, and team on the launch! I'm lucky to have helped shape the future of growth and the web alongside such a talented (and growing) squad. Very excited for what's to come!
Profiles
Code
Repos20
Languages
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