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name: Stephen Sookra
role: Software Engineer Intern @ XR Dojo
education: Kennesaw State University · CS · AI/ML Concentration · 3.8 GPA · '28
record: 17 hackathon awards across 15 events
latest: $5,000 Visa track · HackGT 13 (Lullabuy, Sep 2026)
building: ATL Quest (AR @ XR Dojo) · Nest (foster-youth navigator)
learning: Trustworthy AI · Multi-Agent Governance · LLM Inference on Arm · On-Device Models
mentors: Aaron Butler · Henry
mission: Founding a company in trustworthy AI for high-stakes domains
location: Atlanta, GA (UTC-5)
contact: stephensookra@gmail.com · stephensookra.com- Latest win $5,000 Visa track at HackGT 13 with Lullabuy: a used-baby-gear checkout that holds the Visa payment until a phone photo of the label clears every CPSC and NHTSA recall, built with Tylin Delaney
- Recent wins 1st place + $2,000 for Upstander at BIT Atlanta Code for Change · Best Use of Technology for Manifest at the IBM AI Builders Challenge · 1st of 238 + $5,000 for Aloud at the YouCam API Hackathon · 2nd at the Modiqo Rote Playoffs
- Up next Cal Hacks 13.0 in San Francisco (Oct 2026)
- Giving back GDG on Campus KSU e-board (mentorship) · helping first-time hackers ship
- Summer 2026 taught web + game dev as a SMASH Academy TA (Morehouse / Spelman)
- Ask me about hackathons · AR/XR · AI/ML · founding · Atlanta tech scene
Hackathon record · 17 awards across 15 events · 🏆 $5,000 Visa track @ HackGT 13 · 🥇 1st of 238 + $5,000 @ YouCam API · 🏆 $5,000 Grand Prize @ IBM SkillsBuild · 🥇 1st + $2,000 @ BIT Code for Change · 🏆 Best Use of Technology @ IBM AI Builders Aug · 🏆 Most Innovative @ IBM AI Builders July · 💡 Most Innovative @ IBM SkillsBuild June · 🏆 Best Use of Gemma 4 @ Hack RenderATL · 🥇 1st @ ToC Chaos Challenge · 🥇 1st of 22 @ Actian · 🥇 1st @ HMI 2026 · 🥈 2nd of 4,700+ @ Wells Fargo / GCA · 🥈 2nd @ Rote Playoffs · 🥈 2nd + 🥉 3rd @ KSU Social Good · 🥉 3rd @ KSU FinTech · 🥉 3rd @ Vibra ATL
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🏆 Lullabuy $5,000 Visa track · HackGT 13 Holds a buyer's Visa payment until a phone photo of used baby gear's label clears 1,207 CPSC and NHTSA recalls: reversed on a recall, captured when clean. Live Next.js · Visa Acceptance · CLIP · MongoDB Atlas · Expo |
🥇 Aloud 1st of 238 + $5,000 · YouCam API Voice-first skincare assistant a blind shopper uses alone with the screen off. Every spoken skin read traces to a YouCam analysis score. Live Next.js · OpenAI Realtime · YouCam API · MediaPipe · Capacitor |
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🏆 VARSITY $5,000 Grand Prize + Most Innovative · IBM SkillsBuild Screen-reader-native AI that explains VAR and offside calls to blind football fans, grounded in the IFAB Laws. Live Python · IBM Granite · RAG · a11y |
🥇 Upstander 1st + $2,000 · BIT Atlanta Code for Change Foundry agent that spots group-chat pile-ons across messages and gets the targeted kid a trusted adult, including a consent-gated real phone call. Azure AI Foundry · MCP · Content Safety · FastAPI |
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🏆 Manifest Best Use of Technology · IBM AI Builders Regulatory critical-path planner for university CubeSats, where live space weather can change an orbital-compliance verdict. Next.js · IBM Bob · watsonx Granite · NOAA |
🏆 AccessGate Most Innovative · IBM AI Builders July Caption + audio-description conformance pre-check for film: 23 cited rules with a gated generative fix on IBM Granite. Python · IBM watsonx · React · a11y |
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🥇 Trace 1st of 22 · Actian Build Challenge Semantic search bridging how families describe a missing person and how forensic records word it, across 40,000+ NamUs records. Python · SapBERT · Actian VectorAI · FastAPI |
🏆 Throughline Best Use of Gemma 4 · Hack RenderATL Record-integrity layer: reconciles what one institution asserts against independent authorities, 51.9% divergence across 1,344 entities. Python · Gemma 4 · FastAPI · React |
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🥇 StepSafe 1st · HMI 2026 Diabetic foot ulcer severity from a single photo, using a fine-tuned MobileNetV2 trained on ~20,000 images. Live TensorFlow · MobileNetV2 · FastAPI · React |
🥈🥉 PyroLens 2nd + 3rd · KSU Social Good Prescribed-burn decision support fusing ESP32 field sensors, NOAA weather, and satellite data for safer controlled burns. Python · scikit-learn · ESP32 · Supabase |
Also shipped · Parliament (1st, one-hour build) · Erasure-Proof (provable crypto-erasure for agent memory) · Curtail (governed agent fleet for California water law) · Renova (offline Medicaid renewal helper) · GravitonKV (KV-cache quantization on Graviton4)
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Last edited: October 2026