Robert Levy
Staff Software Engineer at Lightning AI
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Levy is a Staff Software Engineer and three-time founder with 11 years of experience building infrastructure and AI-driven products from trading platforms to community discovery systems. After starting in quantitative finance at Goldman Sachs—where he led Commodities engineering, automated hundreds of workflows, and shipped asset-neutral trading services—he transitioned to founding startups, raising venture capital for Intros AI and seeing prior exits. He combines deep systems and infra expertise with applied AI, currently driving infra and AI engineering at Lightning AI in New York. Comfortable both as a hands-on engineer and a technical founder, he has repeatedly moved ideas from prototype to production under real-world constraints. Notably, his background spans event-driven trading automation and community-data aggregation, reflecting a knack for engineering tooling that surfaces actionable signals from noisy markets and social systems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Major: Computer Science; Minors: Financial Mathematics, Business (Ross), 3.509, BS, Major: Computer Science; Minors: Financial Mathematics, Business (Ross), 3.509 at University of Michigan College of Engineering
English, Spanish
Github Skills (53)
lightning10
pytorch10
artificial-intelligence10
python10
data-science10
lifecycle10
machine-learning10
scaling10
cost-management10
infrastructure10
deep-learning10
api10
ai10
rest-api10
fastapi9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alassman/Brad1
Oct 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:38 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
robertlevy11/CS-448-MP-2
Jan 2024 - Jan 2024
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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