Curriculum vitae
William Kamfar
wkamfar@uchicago.eduChicago, ILgithub.com/WkamfarLinkedInx.com/WKamfar25
Education
The University of ChicagoChicago, IL
B.A. in Mathematics and Computer ScienceExpected June 2029
- GPA: 3.9 / 4.0
- Relevant coursework: Systems Programming II, Discrete Mathematics, Abstract Linear Algebra, Real Analysis, Probability
Trevor Day SchoolNew York, NY
High school diplomaMay 2025
- GPA: 4.0 / 4.0; SAT: 1570
- Awards: National Merit Scholar Finalist, Bronze Congressional Award
Experience
MarketryChicago, IL
Co-founder and CEO2026 to present
- Co-founded a B2B platform for pricing and transferring event risk for mid-size companies with prediction-market contracts
- Led forecasting research, including a finding that 1,440 simulated trading desks carried an effective sample size of 1.12, which reshaped the product around forward-only forecast grading
- Finalist, OakNorth Young Entrepreneurs pitch competition; won $7K in non-dilutive funding
TipTop TechnologiesChicago, IL
Software Engineering InternMarch 2026 to May 2026
- Developed Python backend services for TipTop's 360 platform, an AI marketplace with 20+ partner companies
- Shipped features with engineering, design and business teams during the platform's beta
CrunchDAONew York, NY
Software Engineering InternJuly 2024 to August 2024
- Built a Discord interface that let users query the internal models of a crowdsourced quant fund
- Turned user questions into signals to steer model training priorities
- Worked closely with the founding team and researched how decentralized model networks produce trading signals
Swanky StudiosNew York, NY
Founder and Lead DeveloperDecember 2023 to September 2025
- Founded an independent game studio and led a 5+ person student team building game prototypes and tech demos
- Competed in Ludum Dare, the GMTK Game Jam and other events
- Founded an annual hackathon and game jam at Trevor Day that grew to 50+ attendees and expanded to other NYC schools
Leadership and activities
Midway VenturesChicago, IL
Senior Product ConsultantSeptember 2025 to present
- Trained LoRA models on open-source LLMs to port slot machine software to mobile for Hydrastack, a casino-to-mobile gaming startup
- Developed pharma and vaccine market research for Amplify Dynamics
- Helped recruit 30+ members across two cycles
UChicago RoboticsChicago, IL
Navigation Software LeadSeptember 2025 to present
- Co-lead Micromouse software: maze mapping and pathfinding with flood fill
- Wrote the robot's core control code for real-time navigation and software for IEEE Micromouse at UCLA
- Mentor new members on building navigation systems
Trevor Day Varsity GolfNew York, NY
Varsity GolferSpring 2022 to Spring 2025
- Won the NYCAL golf championship (2022 to 2023) and competed at the state championship
Projects
cuphead-agentgithub.com/Wkamfar/cuphead-agent
Search-based game agent2026
- Built an agent that fights Cuphead bosses from exact game state: a lockstep C# mod, a forward model, a safety filter and an LLM review loop (45k lines Python, 13k C#, 1,956 tests)
- Diagnosed a positioning failure from logs and raised final-phase wins from 6 to 39 of 100 in a paired test (p = 3.6 × 10−8)
Two-arm shared reasoningIn progress
Robotics research2026
- Researching how independent world-model agents coordinate in a shared space; two SO-101 agents matched a central planner in 710 simulated episodes and stayed fast under 300 ms of delay
Skills and interests
Languages: Python, C, C++, C#, Java, TypeScript
Tools: Claude Code, GitHub, Blender, Three.js, Godot, MuJoCo, LeRobot
Spoken: working proficiency in Japanese and French
Interests: robot learning and world models, tennis, golf, skiing, film, analytic philosophy, game jams