Robert Kotcher

Product-minded software engineer with a track record of shipping measurable systems: legal-tech settlement growth, synthetic-data infrastructure, developer-tool research, mobile apps at scale, and highly-cited security research from Carnegie Mellon.

Experience

Selected Roles

2024-Present

Founding Engineer

SoloSuit

Founding engineer on a legal-tech platform helping Americans resolve debt lawsuits and settlement workflows.

$2.7Bdebt protected

200Klawsuits helped negotiate

20xmonthly settled-debt growth

8% -> 37%increase in offers sent

Maintains a TypeScript, Rails, and Postgres system with 12,000+ RSpec tests.
Company context: Inc. 5000 #633, 1,200+ monthly paying customers, backed by YC, Kleiner Perkins, The LegalTech Fund, Temerity, and others.

2020-2023

Lead Software Engineer / Second Hire

Synthesis AI

Built core data pipelines and render-farm infrastructure for synthetic-data generation.

Joined as one of the earliest engineers and built much of the pipeline foundation from the ground up.
Worked primarily with Go, Kubernetes, and production data infrastructure.

2020-2022

Product R&D

Codecov

Researched product directions around code testing, analysis, and engineering-quality signals.

Worked before Codecov was acquired by Sentry.
Focused on the overlap between developer behavior, testing workflows, and product strategy.

2019-2020

Mobile App Engineer

Moment

Built consumer mobile product features for an app used by millions of people.

Worked on a product with 8M users.
Contributed to mobile engineering in a user-behavior and habit-change product domain.

2013-2017

Software Engineer

NASA / Expii

Built software at NASA and later Expii, including published aerospace and education-technology work.

Co-authored NASA-published research on ADS-B sense-and-avoid algorithms for UAS integration into national airspace.
At Expii, worked on software for an education platform described as a GPS for learning.

Research and Products

Selected Work

ACM CCS / Black Hat USA

OAuth security research

Co-authored highly-cited CMU web-security research that studied 600+ popular mobile apps and found 59.7% of OAuth implementations among sampled OAuth apps were vulnerable.

6x co-founder

Startup operator

Publicly describes himself as a Carnegie Mellon CS alum and 6x startup co-founder, with work spanning legal tech, music collaboration, AI, education, and developer tools.

Hugging Face

Applied ML and legal docs

Published a RoBERTa-based experiment exploring section extraction in legal documents with noisy PDF and HTML structure.