Robert Kotcher

Inflight Simulator lets people explore the world as an airline passenger, choosing destinations and collecting country flags as they complete virtual flights.

Inflight Simulator went viral, reaching 60,000 flights within days of release.

SoloSuit (Y Combinator, W21) helps Americans navigate debt lawsuits.

I contributed to SoloSuit’s debt resolution platform, helping 200,000+ Americans navigate debt lawsuits and protecting $2.7 billion in claimed debt.

I increased the monthly settlement volume on SoloSettle by 20x over 20 months by leading dozens of A/B tests across the settlement funnel. I shipped a key experiment that increased sent settlement offers from 8% to 37%.

I lead a pod of 3–6 engineers, with team composition changing quarterly, and am responsible for the team’s successful output.

I built and maintained core product features across a TypeScript, Ruby on Rails, and PostgreSQL stack, supporting a 12,000+ spec test suite.

Codecov was acquired by Sentry in 2022. I researched and built new products that were later handed off to the engineering team. My testing tool was one of the reasons for the acquisition.

SynthesisAI was building a synthetic data generation platform. I maintained a server farm on AWS, orchestrated with Kubernetes, with an API built in Go.

TourDash reduces friction between tour guides, operators, and booking platforms. It is growing 5% month over month and works with 1,500 tour operators worldwide.