Kelvin Amoaba

Research

• CoFEE: Reasoning Control for LLM-Based Feature Discovery

  arXiv 2026

  A framework for automating feature discovery from unstructured data using LLMs with cognitive constraints, inducing reasoning behaviors like backward chaining from outcomes and verification against data leakage criteria. Achieves 15.2% higher success rate, 29% fewer features generated, and 53.3% cost reduction over vanilla LLM approaches.

• VCBench: Benchmarking LLMs in Venture Capital

  arXiv 2025

  The first benchmark for predicting founder success in venture capital, providing 9,000 anonymized founder profiles. State-of-the-art LLMs like DeepSeek-V3 deliver over 6x baseline precision, with most models surpassing human benchmarks.

• From Limited Data to Rare-event Prediction: LLM-powered Feature Engineering and Multi-model Learning in Venture Capital

  arXiv 2025

  A framework for predicting rare, high-impact outcomes by integrating large language models with a multi-model machine learning architecture for venture capital decision-making.

Teaching

• Building Nginx from Scratch

  nginx handles millions of requests per second. But how does it actually work under the hood? In this series, we build a working reverse proxy from scratch in Go — no libraries, no shortcuts — to find out. This is part 1: we cover what reverse proxies actually do and build our first working version using raw TCP.

Writing

• Jul 7, 2026Multi Level Feedback Queue
• Jun 26, 2026Limited Direct Execution
• Apr 6, 2026What actually is an API?
• Dec 13, 2025What actually determines a file's type?
• Dec 8, 2025What happens when you open a file?

All writing

Projects

• Telemetry

  Observability for AI and LLM apps, built on OpenTelemetry. Captures every model call, tool step, and retrieval as a trace — with tokens, cost, latency, and errors attached — through drop-in TypeScript and Python SDKs or any OTLP exporter, with cost computed from live pricing for 4,700+ models.

• Lookout

  A zero-dependency monitoring agent for Linux servers, written in Go. Reads metrics directly from /proc and evaluates alert rules in-process — with hysteresis thresholds, disk-fill prediction, and a dead-man's switch — shipping as a single static binary under systemd instead of a full Prometheus stack.

• RiftCheck

  AI-powered API contract change detection for GitHub repositories. Monitors every commit and PR for breaking changes across REST, GraphQL, and gRPC, and notifies the right teams instantly.

• iShortn

  A URL shortening service with a built-in analytics dashboard. It tracks link clicks, geographic data, and user behavior in real-time. Currently has over 10,000 users and more than a million link clicks.

• LogDeck

  A self-hosted control plane for Docker and Podman, shipped as a single Go binary. Tails every container into a local store so log history survives redeploys, and adds full-text search, container and Compose management, alerting, multi-host support, and a built-in MCP server that lets AI assistants read logs and act on containers.

• is-temp.com

  A temporary email service powered by a custom SMTP server built in Golang. It provides disposable email addresses and supports attachments and custom domains.

• formbase.dev

  A backend service for HTML forms. It lets users collect form submissions and file uploads just by pointing their HTML form to the service endpoint, no backend code required.

• directt.to

  An open-source alternative to Google Dynamic Links — create powerful, trackable, and customizable short links.

• zihni

  AI-powered analyst agents for VCs. Built autonomous LLM-based agents to automate early-stage tasks like pitch deck analysis, market research, and investment memo generation—drastically reducing due diligence time.

• bazaar

  A full-stack self-healing web scraper that leverages AI to automate complex web scraping workflows—over 10 million records collected, with a 90% reduction in manual data collection.

• docker reverse proxy

  A custom Docker reverse proxy built from scratch to understand how tools like Traefik and NGINX work under the hood. Focused on dynamic service discovery and routing.

• meta-scout

  A simple API that extracts website metadata—including Open Graph images, descriptions, and titles—for quick content previews and link enrichment.

• OpenStatus

  Active contributor to OpenStatus. 🏓 The open-source monitoring platform with incident management 🏓

Activity

6,342 contributions in the past year