name: Stephen Sookra
role: Software Engineer Intern @ XR Dojo
education: Kennesaw State University · CS · AI/ML Concentration · 3.8 GPA · '28
building: Rooted · CornerCheck · GravitonKV · ATL Quest
learning: Trustworthy AI · C2PA Provenance · LLM Inference on Arm · Agentic Systems
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- Just shipped Rooted, an open, vendor-neutral C2PA provenance-recovery server on Backblaze B2 · web + API + CLI + mobile, all live · submitted 32 days early
- Currently shipping ATL Quest (AR + XR @ XR Dojo) and CornerCheck (fail-closed fighter-clearance Slack agent · Slack Agent Builder Challenge)
- Researching GravitonKV, a KV-cache quantization tradeoff study for LLM inference on AWS Graviton4 (llama.cpp + KleidiAI · Arm Create 2026)
- Summer 2026 SMASH Academy TA (web + game dev · Morehouse / Spelman · Nationals Jul 31)
- Ask me about hackathons · AR/XR · AI/ML · founding · Atlanta tech scene
Hackathon record · 🥇 1st @ HMI 2026 · 🥈 2nd of 4,700+ @ Wells Fargo / GCA · 🥈 2nd + 🥉 3rd @ KSU Social Good · 🥉 3rd @ KSU FinTech · 🥉 3rd @ Vibra ATL
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🥇 StepSafe 1st · HMI 2026 Computer-vision diabetic foot ulcer triage from a single photo: expert-level assessment for any clinician. TensorFlow · MobileNetV2 · FastAPI · React |
🥈🥉 PyroLens 2nd + 3rd · KSU Social Good AI prescribed-burn decision support fusing IoT sensors, weather, and satellite data for safer controlled burns. Python · scikit-learn · ESP32 · Supabase |
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🏟️ VARSITY IBM SkillsBuild Real-time, screen-reader-native AI that explains VAR and offside calls to blind football fans, grounded in the IFAB laws. Python · IBM Granite · RAG · a11y |
🔎 Trace Actian VectorAI Semantic bridge between family descriptions and forensic records to help identify missing persons. Named vectors · Hybrid fusion · NamUs |
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🌱 Rooted Backblaze · 7 live surfaces Vendor-neutral C2PA soft-binding resolution server on Backblaze B2: recovers stripped provenance for AI image, audio, and video. FastAPI · C2PA · TrustMark · Postgres · Next.js |
🛡️ ContextMod-Devvit Reddit Mod Tools Devvit Web port of FoxxMD's ContextMod moderation bot: JSON5 wiki rules, live telemetry, per-sub install, zero hosting. TypeScript · Hono · Redis · Devvit |
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Built by Stephen Sookra · Atlanta, GA · shipping ambitious things
Last edited: July 2026


