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i'm building trace - hardware superintelligence. the fastest path from idea to fabricated circuit board.

i'm an electrical engineer and computer scientist with deep interest in embodied ai, hardware design, and edge compute. born and raised in lagos, nigeria. moved to the us for school, took leave from howard (ee + cs) to build trace full-time in san francisco.

i'm in the january 2026 cohort of artifact, @founders inc. d.e. shaw latitude fellow (1 of 47 nationwide). landed instagram auth infra at 17, built a robotic arm for nasa at 18, turned down a $250k offer to join a startup at 19.

i'm interested in embodied ai - agents that interact with the world like humans, manipulation, contact dynamics, rl for physical tasks. also hardware design and edge compute - the intersection of hardware and software, building systems that are both efficient and effective.

vision

i believe that:

pcb design tooling is stuck in the 90s. engineers spend weeks on boards that should take hours. we can automate 80% of it.
hardware design will become as fast as software deployment. idea to fabricated board in minutes, not months.
the best training data for hardware ai doesn't exist yet. we're building the versioned marketplace that creates it.

previously

apple wireless - ml pipelines for esim carrier prediction, coretelephony
meta - instagram auth infra at 17
nasa rocksat-c - robotic arm rf comms, telecommand
spawnlabs - internal tools from plain english, $8k mrr, exited
deepubuntu - robotics data infra, vlm research on manipulation

selected work

trace - ai-native pcb design. 600+ engineers. founders inc.
graphmind - distributed gnns with byzantine fault tolerance
vectorhub - sharded vector store, 1m+ writes/min
fpga-uart - uart controller in systemverilog

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