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.

Technical skills required included shadow mapping, geometry reduction, scene culling, frustum streaming, and character rigging.

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.

I worked on Expii’s interactive math and science learning platform, built with a React.js frontend and Flask backend.

HomepageAlgebra lesson browserInteractive math puzzles

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