Henrik Gombos

  • Computer Science & Business at Cornell.
  • I work on data infrastructure, reinforcement learning environments, and things that ship.
  • I'm also interested in computational linguistics, design, and Linux!

Chapter 01

Widget Factory

Problem Design Engineer

Remote · Mar 2026 – Present

  • Building reinforcement learning environments for AI code review; identified failure modes across model outputs.
  • Evaluating AI problem fairness across 1–2 hour reviews through independent analysis and written justifications.
  • Manage a flexible, self-directed workload, tracking time per task and coordinating timesheet submissions.

Chapter 02

Boston University Questrom School of Business

Data Engineer

Boston, MA · Mar 2024 – Jun 2025

150+
websites' cookie data collected
  • Collected cookie data from 150+ websites, scraping through third-party sources into monthly ad-tech datasets.
  • Built Python parsers outputting analysis-ready CSVs as part of Google's Privacy Sandbox to track third-party cookies.
  • Partnered with Professor Garrett Johnson and graduate students to prepare large-scale attestations.

Chapter 03

Loadstone Labs

Co-Founder

Remote · Dec 2025 – Present

132,000+
live water rights records ingested daily
  • Built an ingestion pipeline processing 132,000+ live water rights records daily across 44 Colorado counties.
  • Designing a heterogeneous county recorder formats into a unified transaction schema, resolving unit inconsistencies.
  • Prototyping an automated valuation model for water rights using comparable transaction data and hedonic regression.

Chapter 04

CornellGuessr

Side Project

May 2026

3,000
players reached within 24 hours of launch
  • A Cornell-facing geo-experience app, reaching 3000 players within 24 hours.

Chapter 05

Balright.lol

Founder

Sep 2025 – Present

  • A collectible card game featuring video and audio format cards, partnered with Twitch streamers.

Let's talk

  • Open to internships and collaboration in data infrastructure, ML systems, and applied research.
  • Equally interested in product management and tech consulting — roles where the engineering and the decision sit together.

Adventures

Places worth the flight. Pick one.

Also

Education

Cornell University, College of Arts and Sciences

B.A. in Computer Science, Minor in Business Minor for Engineers

Ithaca, NY · Expected May 2029

  • CS 2110 – Data Structures & Functional Programming
  • CS 2800 – Discrete Structures
  • CS 3110 – Functional Programming
  • MATH 1120 – Calculus

On campus & earlier

Cornell Venture Capital

Analyst

Ithaca, NY · Feb 2026 – Present

  • Conduct market research and early-stage startup diligence across sectors, evaluating competitive positioning.
  • Collaborated with external partners including PearX and Foundation Capital on research and accelerator development.
  • Worked directly with VC firms on startup evaluations, contributing research to support investment decisions.

Cornell Entrepreneurship Club

Operations Lead

Ithaca, NY · Sep 2025 – Present

  • Lead a 7-person ops team and own recruitment, running outreach and selecting 10 members from 200+ applicants.
  • Grew the club's campus and digital presence, redesigning cornellec.com and getting ~15k+ views in a week.
  • Hosted YC Founders and CEOs at club speaker series, promoting entrepreneurship at Cornell to 150+ attendees weekly.

Red Hat

Open Source Intern

Remote · May 2023 – Aug 2024

  • Contributed to Linux and the Dracut initramfs infrastructure.

Skills

AI · Web design · Python (NumPy, TensorFlow) · Java · Research · Shell (Zsh) · Adobe · Git · Docker · Figma

Languages

English · Chinese (Mandarin, Shanghainese) · Hungarian

Interests

Squash · Saxophone · Citera · Hungarian Folk Dance · Linguistics · NLP · Graphic Design · Experimental Design