About

I'm Olalekan "Lekan" Adeyeri. I was born in Lagos and moved to Boston when I was seven, and a lot of how I think starts there. Growing up across those worlds made me pay attention early to disparity, access, and the strange ways small frictions can shape a life. It also made me interested in technology for reasons that were never purely technical. I've always been drawn to the question of what tools are for: who they empower, what they make easier, and what kinds of human problems they are actually worth being built around.

I taught myself to code, but I've never really thought of myself as belonging to only one lane. I've moved between software, research, product, venture, writing, and finance, usually by following curiosity rather than a clean narrative. Some of that has meant building practical things, like voice software for lupus clinical trials, grocery tools, product prototypes, and AI systems. Some of it has meant doing research, including deep learning work at Stanford on ultra-low-dose amyloid PET/MR imaging. Some of it has meant spending time around startups and investing and trying to understand how good ideas become real institutions instead of just interesting projects.

What ties it together is that I like building things with a point of view. I care about accessibility, usefulness, and whether something feels honest about the world it lives in. I'm interested in computer vision, voice interfaces, physics-informed machine learning, media, product strategy, and the overlap between technical systems and human behavior. Just as much, I care about how people think, how institutions behave, how taste forms, how power moves socially, and how someone keeps their bearings when environments become confusing or adversarial.

This site is where all of that ends up. Some of it is technical work. Some of it is writing about ideas. Some of it is personal record. Some of it is me trying to think clearly in public. I don't really see those as separate activities. For me, building, writing, and thinking are all part of the same process: trying to understand what matters, make something useful, and say something true.