The people, companies, and systems behind technological progress.
KOTF (Kenny Otesile Tech Fellowship) develops people who advance technology through engineering, research, invention, and entrepreneurship.
What we believe
Technology advances through people with depth, discipline, and judgment. We work to develop them, along with the companies and systems they go on to build.
What we work on
Engineering
Build systems that work, scale and endure.
Deep command of software and systems: how they are designed, reasoned about, tested and kept running under real conditions.
Research
Ask questions that have not been answered.
Forming a question, designing experiments, reading critically and reporting results with rigor, including the ones that disappoint.
Invention
Make what does not yet exist.
Moving from a technical insight to a working artifact: prototyping, testing assumptions and learning from what fails.
Entrepreneurship
Turn capability into lasting institutions.
The judgment to choose problems worth solving, assemble teams and build companies that carry important work forward.
Who KOTF is for
We welcome people at every stage of technical development. Seriousness and a willingness to be held to a high standard are what matter.
Beginners
Capable beginners at the start of serious study, willing to do hard things.
Learners
Independent learners ready to have their work examined.
Engineers
Experienced practitioners who want to work at greater depth.
Researchers
Researchers and academics asking difficult questions.
Inventors
People who make things that did not exist.
Entrepreneurs
Technical founders building companies on hard problems.
Join us.
Tell us who you are and what you want to work on, and we'll contact you about activities relevant to you.