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Hey, I'm Mario Sumali. I'm a student at Stanford University. I grew up spending way too much time in the pool and I even co-authored a little research on hydrodynamic drag on swimsuits back in high school. These days, I'm building things.
On campus I write for The Stanford Chaparral, Stanford's humor magazine. If you need someone to officiate a wedding: I'm an ordained minister through American Marriage Ministries.
I'm a Stanford BS/MS Computer Science student (26') and a DoD SMART Scholar. I build applied AI and full-stack systems in defense-adjacent settings—most recently as a software engineer at the National Reconnaissance Office, where I've worked on AI systems for national security stakeholders, and at CACI, where I shipped agentic AI tooling for compartmentalized, air-gapped environments (React Native, AWS Bedrock, custom tool patterns inspired by MCP and artifacts-style workflows). Earlier internships span Sandia National Laboratories (satellite ML and uncertainty quantification), the Air Force Research Laboratory (GNC and simulation), and Blue Halo Aerospace (orbital and multi-physics simulation in Unity, Gazebo, and CoppeliaSim).
On the product side I'm co-founder and engineer at Caduce, health-tech company streamlining insurance prior authorization with AI-assisted clinical documentation and workflows. I also ship independent projects across psychometrics (LIMIT), taste and recommendations (palate), and tooling for multimodal video analysis. I'm a Defense Innovation Scholar at Stanford's Gordion Knot Center; organized for TreeHacks; and am currently building a tool for OSINT analysis in Stanford's Hacking for Defense program.
Timelines, honors, and the rest: Resume. Builds and demos: Projects.