Maceo Cardinale Kwik: a record in six states

Maceo Cardinale Kwik, engineer and founder, San Francisco

Founder of E1O (E1 Optics), building camera-free AI glasses with a private display and a personal assistant. Y Combinator, Spring 2026.

Previously: engineering at Traba, the industrial labor marketplace; software engineering at SimonComputing. B.S. in Computer Science, Virginia Tech, completed in two years, 4.0 GPA, after beginning at Penn State.

Selected repositories: pravost (money held against intention), h668-z37 (cyclotomic nonexistence results for the conference graph of H(668)), conway (a strategy game grown from Life). Sixteen private plates live at Datost. Contact: maceo@datost.com · github.com/maceoCK