Now
building Tapeout Labs.
Background
Lagos (HS valedictorian, class of '21) → Howard (EE + CS + Math, 4.0). started college at 15. 20 now.
D.E. Shaw Latitude Fellow. Bloomberg Academy of Excellence. Alcon R&D. Harvard TinyML.
Previously
Selected work
Tapeout Labs, Autonomous Chip Verification [2026]
- building the five‑person chip company.
- Tapeout Evals. twelve evals scoring agents on end-to-end chip programs across six levels of autonomy.
- aPlace-Transitions. 784k placement transitions from our analytical placer, which beats OpenROAD RTL-MP on 18/20 modern designs, open on Hugging Face.
Trace, AI-Native PCB Design Platform [2025]
forked KiCad for agentic control with custom DSLs (.trace_sch/.trace_pcb). shipped 65+ boards through manufacturing. acquired scheMAGIC, built manufacturer relationships with PCBWay (one-click fabrication) and Pikkolo (assembly). backed by Founders Inc and angels. covered in Business Insider, Yahoo Finance, Entrepreneurial Mag, Daily Scanner, and a lot more.
RockSat-C, Vision-Guided Surgical Arm for Suborbital Flight [2024]
electrical subsystem for an autonomous robotic arm that performed incision and suturing on synthetic tissue during a NASA RockSat-C sounding rocket flight. latching-relay activation from the Wallops signal, isolated 6V servo and 5V compute power domains, custom PCB, OpenCV visual servoing with PID servo control. age 18.
