Henrik Gombos

Computer Science & Economics, Cornell

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Computing Interests: Data, Reinforcement Learning Environments, Product, Computational Linguistics, Design, Linux.

Other Interests: Mandarin, Hungarian, Geography, Board Games, Basketball, Squash, Running.

Now

Co-Founder, Loadstone Labs2025

132,000+ water-rights records ingested daily

Founded a water-rights intelligence platform for the Western U.S., built around how fragmented, inconsistent county records make water rights hard to find and value in a legacy system more than 40 years old.

Shipped a data pipeline processing 132,000+ live water-rights records daily across 44 Colorado counties into one schema.

Awarded a $1K non-dilutive grant from LVLUP Ventures to support the development of Loadstone Labs.

Dec 2025 – Present · Remote

Problem Design Engineer, IdlExperts (fka Widget Factory)2026

Reinforcement learning environments for AI code review

Design reinforcement-learning environments for AI code-review models, improving future models.

Define fairness criteria for AI-generated problems, justifying outputs in writing to make that data actionable.

Mar 2026 – Present · Remote

Analyst, Cornell Venture Capital2026

Evaluate early-stage startups' products and markets, assessing competitive positioning and differentiation.

Collaborated with external partners including PearX and Foundation Capital on research and accelerator development.

Work alongside a team of 8–10 analysts to organize multi-modal data for research projects across different industries.

Feb 2026 – Present · Ithaca, NY

Treasurer, Cornell Entrepreneurship Club2025

Relaunched cornellec.com with a full redesign, driving ~15k views in a week and stronger prospective members.

Hosted YC founders and CEOs at the club speaker series, promoting entrepreneurship at Cornell to 150+ attendees weekly.

Sep 2025 – Present · Ithaca, NY

Before

Data Engineering Intern, Boston University Questrom2024

Cookie data from 150+ websites for Google's Privacy Sandbox

Worked on a faculty-led research team with Professor Garrett Johnson and graduate students, contributing the data infrastructure for a Google Privacy Sandbox study on third-party cookie tracking.

Built and maintained the team's Python collection tooling (web crawlers and parsers), delivering analysis-ready datasets that fed the group's large-scale attestation work.

Mar 2024 – Jun 2025 · Boston, MA

Projects, Contributions, & Research

CornellGuessr2026

3,000 players in the first 24 hours

Designed and launched a consumer geo-guessing game that reached 3,000 players within 24 hours of a finals-week launch, driven by organic campus distribution.

May 2026

Balright.lol2025

A card game of video and audio cards

Built a collectible card game with video and audio cards in partnership with popular Twitch streamers.

Sep 2025 – Present

Lexical diversity in LLMs2025

MATTR across generative models

Ran computational-linguistics experiments on generative-AI models, measuring lexical diversity (MATTR).

Read the paper

Sep 2025 – Present

Dracut2023

Linux initramfs infrastructure, via Red Hat