# Robert Cordwell

> FDE at Totogi

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/robertcordwell

## Work Experience
### Forward Deployed Engineer @ Totogi
Jan 2025 – Present | Austin, Texas, United States
'Ere we go, 'ere we go, new job time!
First day's 'ere, wit a LinkedIn rhyme!

### Lead Quant @ Moda Fund
Jan 2021 – Jan 2025
Beaten by the market, in the end.

### Founder @ Signal Data Science
Jan 2015 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Signal Data Science is the data science bootcamp of choice for scholars, madmen, and effective altruists. More to the point, it's the only bootcamp of its type in the world where students can pay with future income.

### Data Scientist @ Facebook
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Menlo Park
Discovered, analyzed, and presented the case for integrating Facebook’s ad tech with shopping cart providers such as Magento and Shopify. Led analytics for the newly christened Dynamic Instant Ads project, driving a predicted +75MM in incremental revenue in 2016. 

In other words, you can blame me when ads for stuff you already bought keep showing up on your Newsfeed.

### Analyst @ GSN (TV & Games)
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
Responsible for running tests, analyzing results, and determining root causes and the most profitable course of action. Current areas of responsibility include GSN's slots catalogue and TriPeaks Solitaire.

Redesigned the math models for four of our slots games (out of an active catalogue of 20): Blazing Cherries, Ghostbusters, Treasures of Cleopatra, and Spooky Slots. All of these caused the games to perform significantly better than the original. The most significant of these is Spooky Slots, which is currently responsible for ~10% of Facebook revenue (10K/day) despite being a re-skin with a negligible development cost.

### Quantitative Analyst @ Eclipse Trading Technologies
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
I used statistical tools in R and Python to optimize a high-frequency algorithm trading derivatives. My responsibilities included both analyzing market data to develop new signals and finding more predictive models. This led to a significant increase in the company's daily P/L.

### Co-founder @ Tutonic
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
My business card said "The Math Guy," but my job was to be a jack-of-all-trades. At varying points, my responsibilities included web development, curriculum development, marketing, and direct sales. In other words, a typical experience for an early employee at a startup.


## Education
### Caltech

### Texas Christian University

### The University of New Mexico


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/discordwell

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Last updated: 2026-04-05