Ayomide Caleb Adekoya

building Trace. AI-native operating system for hardware design and manufacturing. backed by founders inc.

grew up in Lagos taking apart electronics and writing code. ended up studying EE + CS + Math at Howard.

20. on leave to build Trace full-time in SF.

D.E. Shaw Latitude Fellow. 1 of 47.

• Apple WTE - ml for eSIM carrier config. shipped to iPhone, iPad, Watch.
• Meta - instagram auth infra.
• NASA RockSat-C - robotic arm for suturing in space. designed to survive launch vibration. age 18.
• Spawnlabs - co-founded. now run by my former co-founders, signing enterprise deals.
• DeepUbuntu - autonomous vehicles, vlm research on manipulation.

embodied ai. manipulation, contact dynamics, spatial reasoning, world models. attention modeling, rl for physical tasks. edge supercomputing, coding agents, ml (memory + retrieval + foundation models). rf, signal integrity, power delivery, analog design, high-speed digital, and the intersection of hardware and software.

• hardware deserves better tools
• why i'm building Trace - 2M views.

• trace - ai-native pcb design.
• tinyllm - transformer inference in c.
• vectorhub - sharded vector store.
• fpga-uart - uart controller in systemverilog.