Ayomide Caleb Adekoya
i'm building Trace - AI agents for circuit board design - from idea to manufactured board (backed by founders inc).
grew up in Lagos taking apart electronics and writing code. ended up studying EE + CS + Math at Howard. took leave to build Trace full-time in San Francisco.
D.E. Shaw Latitude Fellow. shipped production code at 17. took leave from school at 19 to build Trace.
embodied ai - agents that interact with the world like humans. manipulation, contact dynamics, spatial reasoning, occlusion, world models. attention modeling, rl for physical tasks. also interested in edge supercomputing, coding agents, ml (memory + retrieval + foundation models), and hardware design - the intersection of hardware and software.
we're at a singular point in history - the tools to design hardware are becoming orders of magnitude more accessible. the next wave of products won't come from big companies with engineering teams, they'll come from individuals with ideas.
i believe that:
- anyone should be able to build a physical product from scratch. have an idea, 3d print the enclosure, vibe code the firmware, design and manufacture the pcb, assemble it yourself - all in a weekend.
- prototyping should be instant. one person with a vision should be able to build something custom without a team of engineers.
- hardware creation should be as democratized as software. we're building the platform to make this real - starting with pcb design, where engineers still spend weeks on boards that should take hours.
- Apple WTE - ml pipelines for eSIM carrier config prediction, coretelephony
- Meta - swe, instagram auth infra
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NASA rocksat-c - robotic arm for suturing, under high vibration conditions in space
- Spawnlabs - ai agents and tools for enterprise workflows
- DeepUbuntu - autonomous vehicles, edge case datasets, vlm research on manipulation
- hardware deserves better tools - why the $19B EDA market is ready for AI