Robert Berke is a CTO and co-founder with nine years of senior industry experience and a deep research pedigree (PhD, ETH Zürich) focused on rethinking data architectures for data-centric AI. He has built and led research and engineering teams across algorithmic trading and AI startups—founding BeProp.io to apply big-data and distributed ML to market microstructure and now steering kaiko.ai’s technology vision. His background spans hands-on quantitative research at IMC Trading through leadership roles as Head of Research/CIO, giving him rare expertise bridging low-latency market models, large-scale feature/label engineering, and production ML systems. Based in Zurich, he combines academic rigor (postdoc in complexity theory) with entrepreneurial success, including a trade-research framework sold to a Swiss prop firm.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at ETH Zürich
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Robert Berke - Chief Technology Officer, Co-founder at kaiko.ai