Maya Lekhi

Western University
Cohort
2026
Maya is a current senior at Western University, studying Computer Science and graduating in 2026. As an 8VC Fellow, she has spent the summer at Vercel as a Member of Technical Staff, where she designed the DeepAgents and Grok Build harness package for the Harness SDK, built Skills Packs for skills.sh, and worked on memory for Vercel's internal agents. Before that, she worked on infrastructure at Notion, served as a Senior Research Fellow at Contrary, and did thesis research on graph purification methods to help graph neural networks recover from structural poisoning attacks. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with dogs, singing, and meeting new people.
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