Sofiane Larbi

Updated Feb 7, 2026

About me

• Grew up in Queens, NY.
• 8+ years building and shipping zero-to-one products end-to-end.
• Stanford University, BS Mathematics, 2025.
• I like to build products that push the envelope on technology & culture.
• Some things I've worked on:
  • Work Experience
    • Entrepreneur in Residence at Paradigm building frontier tech consumer experiences.
    • Forward Deployed Engineer Intern at Palantir (Summer 2023) on AIP.
  • Research & Science
    • Explorations with SecureDNA at Stanford Applied Cryptography Group.
    • Client authenticity proofs: ZK & on-chain verification of Apple's App Attest statements.
    • ProofPix: iPhone attested images app & ZK image manipulation library.
    • NYC Aerospace: Explorations with solid rocket engine design.
  • Featured Projects
    • Daydream (2025-Present): multiplayer world model (Rust, PyTorch)
    • TMR.NEWS (2024): semantic ZK-AI prediction market, $10K volume (TS)
    • IsHeMine.com (2023-2024): Online dating safety app, 25k users (Django, React, ML)
    • FitFinder.me (2023): AI shopping app (FAISS, CLIP)
    • Superlatives (2022): generate superlatives for your friends (Clojure, TS)
    • Katapult (2019-2021): Outdoor Ad marketplace (Django, ML)
  • Additional Projects
    • 2025: Blast Buddies (Swift, TS), Abby dating show game (TS), invest.social (TS), Quantum Markets (Rust, Solidity)
    • 2024: ProofPix ZK proof of image (Rust), ZK proof of iOS app execution (Rust)
    • 2023: Venus anonymously send your friends on a date, Joi LLM journaling app (Python)
    • 2022: Enkey live typing app (Clojure, Flutter), Pax MPC matching engine (Go, C++), IPPM package manager (TS)
    • 2021: BuddyList chat app (Clojure, ClojureScript), unofficial iOS app for same.energy (Flutter)
    • 2020: CopDB (Flutter), Reso (Flutter), Tracery (Flutter), Trifecta gym livestreaming, Captcha bypass CNN, voice assistant (Flutter, GPT-3)
    • 2019: Falah tutoring app (Django), Image similarity matching, Donald Trump chatbot (Flask, GPT-2)
    • 2018: slarbi invest mock stock trading app (Flask)

My links

• github.com/sofianel5
• twitter.com/sofianeflarbi
• paradigm.xyz/2024/10/joining-paradigm-sofiane

Additional

• Arabic native speaker, German proficiency.