# Connor Fogarty

![Connor Fogarty](/resources/cognition/portraits/connor-fogarty.webp)

CS @ Stanford  
United States

## At Cognition

- Role: Former Research Intern (Research)
- Joined: Sep 2025
- How they joined: Directly

## Identity
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/connorffogarty
- X: @connorffogarty
- GitHub: https://github.com/connorff

## 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. (https://cognition.com/blog/swe-1-5)
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/michlimlim_surprising-how-many-startups-overlook-early-career-activity-7345530814031425536-r6zm)
- 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). (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/michlimlim_exciting-team-news-were-thrilled-to-welcome-activity-7343007629343965184-KGZb)
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/connorffogarty)
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/krishmaniar4_treehacks2025-innovation-technology-activity-7298866582338813953-uf6E)
- 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. (https://github.com/cognitive-engineering-lab/quizicist)
- 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. (https://www.congressionalappchallenge.us/21-ia03/)
- Public headline says "CS @ Stanford". (https://www.linkedin.com/in/connorffogarty)
- 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. (https://github.com/connorff)
- 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. (https://thanks.rust-lang.org/rust/1.61.0/)
- Previous roles include Research at Cognition; Software Engineer at Flint; Software Engineer at bolt.new; Student at bolt.new. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/connorffogarty)
- Location is United States. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/connorffogarty)

## Experience
- Research at Cognition - San Francisco, CA (Sep 2025 - Apr 2026): RL infra + leading evals
- Software Engineer at Flint - San Francisco, California, United States (Mar 2025 - Sep 2025): First hire; built agents + infra for the web
- Software Engineer at bolt.new - San Francisco, CA (Jul 2024 - Sep 2024): Built bolt.new
- Student at bolt.new - Stanford, California, United States (Sep 2023 - Jun 2024): Advised GTM team on hackathons
- Software Engineer at bolt.new - San Francisco, California, United States (Jul 2023 - Sep 2023): WebContainer

## Education
- Stanford University - BS, Computer Science

## Sources
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/connorffogarty
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/michlimlim_exciting-team-news-were-thrilled-to-welcome-activity-7343007629343965184-KGZb
- https://github.com/connorff
- https://www.congressionalappchallenge.us/21-ia03/
- https://github.com/cognitive-engineering-lab/quizicist
- https://cognition.com/blog/swe-1-5
- https://www.thegazette.com/news/education/eastern-iowa-students-invited-to-august-hackathon-to-help-a-nonprofit/article_3b0623d1-ea3c-516c-a9c6-81873b5b4de8.html
- https://www.westbranchtimes.com/article.php?viewID=19260
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/michlimlim_surprising-how-many-startups-overlook-early-career-activity-7345530814031425536-r6zm
- https://thanks.rust-lang.org/rust/1.61.0/
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/krishmaniar4_treehacks2025-innovation-technology-activity-7298866582338813953-uf6E
- https://x.com/connorffogarty
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/connorffogarty_your-website-should-build-itself-congrats-activity-7383890673575317504-QLrx


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