Farmhouse
Summer 2026 · Code the Farm
A red barn full of founders. Eight builders live, ship, and break things together all summer — companies, research, patents, and the occasional 36-hour hackathon sprint.
About the house
The House
Farmhouse is a Stanford hacker house — a red barn in the Valley where founders build together over the summer. One roof, eight builders, and a shared bet that the best way to ship is side by side.
We run on the Code the Farm ethos: late nights, fast iterations, demo-or-die energy, and a door that's always open to the next interesting problem.
- 8
- Founders
- 8
- Companies
- 2
- US Patents
- 3x
- TreeHacks wins
Meet the cohort
The Founders
Eight builders shipping companies, research, and patents — under one roof this summer.
Andrzej Bachleda-Curus
CEO of Telomis — a reagent decision layer for preclinical research
Stanford CS/AI + Math
Vice President, Stanford BASES (Startup Dev)
- 2x National Math Olympiad Finalist
- Built multi-agent systems for data extraction and analysis at an early-stage startup
- Inventor, SmartWalker (TreeHacks 2026): an AI rehab walker with computer-vision gait analysis, step count, and pressure sensing
- Built a Parkinson's classifier on a 2,105-patient cohort (KNN, 0.889 accuracy) with feature selection to improve fairness
Filip Buscu
Cofounder & CTO of Oculta — risk-assessment software for commercial real estate insurers (backed by Cardinal Ventures)
Stanford Aerospace + Electrical Engineering
- Founded Romania's first functional satellite company, with two launches via SpaceX
- ISEF Grand Award for improving blended-wing aircraft stability and efficiency
- ex-RF engineering intern at Tarana Wireless
- Recruited onto an Airbus tender at the European Space Agency (ESA)
- Competed in physics and astrophysics olympiads
Andrew Jenkins
Founding Engineer @ Nonlinear — building AI agents automating AEC and physical infrastructure workflows
Stanford Computer Science (AI Track)
Vice President, Stanford BASES (Startup Dev)
- ex-Computer Vision Engineer @ dapster.ai
- US Patent No. 12,002,002 B1 — SmartCan Trash Routing System
- US Patent No. 11,950,613 B1 — GuacSaver Food Preservation System
- Inventor, SmartWalker (TreeHacks 2026): an AI-powered rehab walker
Max Fan
CTO @ 0studio — a 3D-native transformer model for CAD, backed by Cardinal Ventures
Stanford CS & Physics
Vice President, Stanford ASES
- Stanford AI Club Board
- VEX Robotics World Championships Qualifier x3
- NLP research for endangered languages at Harvard Phonology & Phonetics Lab
- ML for cancer prediction at UCLA Quantitative & Computational Biosciences
- TreeHacks winner, Poke Track
Oliver Sin
Founding Operations Engineer @ Context — an enterprise platform for building, running, and improving AI agents in legacy workflows
Stanford Computer Science (AI Track) & Philosophy
TreeHacks Sponsorships Director · ASES Director
- Conducting research at Stanford SAFE AI Lab
- Youth Delegate to the United Nations
Matthew Kim
Co-Founder @ Caladan — a drone swarm startup backed by Pareto, IRON Cluster, and more
Stanford CS + Econ
- Researcher at Stanford Multi-Robot Systems Lab
- ASES Executive Board
- First Place International DECA Champion
- Built an agentic social-life planner that hit 300 users within 36 hours at TreeHacks (won Poke track)
Nathaniel Laurent
ML Research Engineer @ Phinity Labs — building AI systems automating chip design workflows
Stanford Physics & CS (AI Track)
VP of Technical Cohort, Stanford BASES
- Ex-ML Engineer @ Midas Intelligence — designed mathematical formal reasoning models
- Presented Machine Learning Heliophysics Research @ National NASA Conferences
Raza Zaidi
Co-Founder @ Stratton Labs — an AI-native hedge fund backed by Y Combinator
Stanford CS + Econ
- AI Analyst at Meteora Capital ($2B AUM hedge fund)
- AI/ML at Nexa Labs (YC S25), built a predictive cattle health algorithm
- Researcher at Stanford Emerging Market Technology Group
- F1 in Schools: 13th at Worlds, 2x US National Champion
- 3x first author on healthcare outcomes research
On the calendar
Summer Events
Compiling the lineup
Demo nights, build sprints, founder dinners, and speaker sessions are in the works for Summer 2026.
Check back soon — the schedule is on its way.
Got an idea for what we should run? We're taking suggestions.
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