Rob Levy

Full-stack Engineer • Data Analyst • New York, NY, US

Full Stack Development

Fundraising

Team Building

Teaching

Technical Writing

Technical Consultancy

Team Management

Engineering

Technology

Machine Learning

Python

React Router

React

Next.js

Available for hire fromNegotiable

Contracts

Passionate Founder and Technologist with a decade of experience in full stack application design and 5 years managing engineering teams.

Experienced engineer and 3x founder with a multi-disciplinary background. I've gained extensive experience working on financial applications and led both frontend and backend engineering teams. In addition to founding 3 companies, I've served as a strategic consultant to multiple other early stage startups, and embrace new problem spaces eagerly. When not building, you will typically find me working on my cook book. I began cooking in my uncle's restaurant at age 15, and would consider myself a long-time pseudo-professional in the kitchen.

Work History

Co-Founder, CTO & COO

Intros AIApr 2021 - Present • 3 yrs 7 mosValue Prop: We are building the people search engine for organizations. ll organizations maintain a network in the form of contacts, CRM’s, or databases, we should be able to drive value from our networks in the same way we drive value through content today. Raised $1.3m Pre-Seed round in late-2021. Managed a dynamic team of 16 full-time employees, interns, and part-time contractors across Engineering, Product, Sales and Design. Facilitated our hiring pipeline for full-time and part-time candidates across Engineering, Design, and Product positions. Designed and maintained the Product-Lifecycle and SDLC for the team. Conducted user interviews and sales calls. Operated as POC for our Advisory board, Legal, Accounting, and Payroll / HR services. Architected a Microservice infrastructure to separate core API, Search, Slack bot, Discord bot, and Data writing functionality respectively using AWS and Terraform. Measured user growth and activity across our applications using Mixpanel. Established log monitoring, failure alerts, and SLO confirmation using Elastic Cloud, Grafana, and Prometheus. Built user-facing applications using Typescript and React.

Global Markets Engineering Associate

Goldman SachsJan 2021 - Apr 2021 • 4 mosOversaw the development and deployment of health probers, grafana dashboards, and PagerDuty alerts to monitor software reliability on our platform. Co-managed 6 engineers building our Commodities Trading Platform.

Commodities R&D Analyst

Goldman SachsApr 2019 - Jan 2020 • 10 mosCreated an event-driven trading system utilizing a robotic pattern of operation in Python. Oversaw development of the UI in ReactJS, designed API and websocket protocols on top of the Tornado Library, and developed the parallel-processed driver for automated trading strategies.

Founder & Sole Operator

Clover Tech, LLCJan 2019 - Apr 2021 • 2 yrs 4 mosOperated as a personal LLC for startup consulting while primarily focusing efforts on my roles at Goldman Sachs. I consulted with startups in the Nightlife, Online Education, Personal CRM, and Community spaces.

Global Markets Engineering Analyst

Goldman SachsJul 2018 - Jan 2021 • 2 yrs 7 mosInterim-Managed the Hong Kong branch of our team (3 engineers) in the absence of a Senior Associate. Developed an orderbook to introduce Commodities Agency trading to the Marquee platform. Integrated APIs to execute orders, fetch order data, retreive account data, and stream quotes into many of our UI components using a Model-View-View Model pattern of development. Automated tests for 300 user workflows on our orderbook, using selenium webdriver. Architected an asset-neutral streaming grid in Typescript and Mobx, and integrated FX Swaps, Commod Principal, and Commod Agency assets onto the platform. Architected and implemented a system for server-side filtering of order data, and oversaw rollout of filtering features to the Marquee platform. Implemented a standard of testing code coverage above 75% in all co-managed features. Implemented and oversaw the introduction of commodities options trading to the Marquee platform.

Cryptolect

Co-Founder, CTOApr 2017 - Jul 2018 • 1 yr 4 mosWe developed an arbitrage-embedded trading system for cryptocurrencies using Python. I utilized my background in computational finance and stochastic calculus to create the statistical arbitrage model. We generated over $2.5M in profit from external investment of $250K. Shutdown to continue at Goldman Sachs in 2018.

Securities Engineering Analyst

Goldman SachsMay 2016 - Aug 2017 • 1 yr 4 mosDecoupled single threaded functionality from a computationally heavy server, and integrated it as a REST API on top of a multi-threaded driver. Designed an API and accompanying UI to allow traders to modify model parameters for inventory calculation in the securities lending business. Presented on the benefits of Agile development methods to the Securities Engineering Division and aided development of adoption plan.

Co-Founder, CTO

VIPPSep 2014 - Sep 2015 • 1 yr 1 moValue Prop: We created a direct channel of communication between nightlife management and their patrons. This would allow patrons access to personalized discounts in return for supplying strategic data to the venues they attend. Created an iOS application for bidirectional communication between nightlife venue management and patrons, reducing the need for venue promoters Micro-acquired by Magnises in Q1, 2016.

Education

University of Michigan

Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering

University of Michigan

Minors, Computational Finance (1) & Business (2)

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