Robert Kotcher

As a founding engineer at SoloSuit (Y Combinator, W21), I helped build a debt resolution platform serving 200,000+ Americans and protecting $2.7 billion in claimed debt.

I identified growth opportunities across SoloSettle’s settlement funnel and led dozens of A/B tests, growing monthly settlement volume 20x in 20 months.

I identified friction in the settlement-offer workflow, chose what to build, and shipped an experiment that increased the offer send rate from 8% to 37%.

I lead a pod of 3–6 engineers and own delivery from technical planning through production. I build and maintain core features in TypeScript, Ruby on Rails, and PostgreSQL, supporting a 12,000+ spec test suite.

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

As a founding engineer, I built most of Synthesis AI’s data pipelines from the ground up using Go (Golang) and Kubernetes. I maintained AWS infrastructure, Docker containers, and a Go API.

Built an educational dashboard and content management system for doctors using React.js and a Python backend. Worked on internal tooling and an ETL pipeline for podcast processing.

Built Expii’s responsive learning-content editor in React.js, CSS, and Flexbox, supporting image, diagram, multiple-choice, text, and video blocks with pixel-perfect implementation of professional designs. The platform used a Python/Flask backend on AWS.

I developed Java software for an ADS-B sense-and-avoid system that was licensed to Vigilant Aerospace.