# Robert Levy

> Staff Engineer @ Lightning AI |

3x Founder, 2x Acq.

Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/robertlevy

Lifelong builder and 3x founder.

Started in quantitative finance, shifted into AI the past 5 years.
Now building the future of AI developments at Lightning AI.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Lightning AI
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, United States

### CTO, Co-Founder (Acq. by Bevy) @ Intros AI
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Brooklyn, New York, United States
Backed by Neo and Beyond Genius Ventures.
Intros AI is a community-platform and data aggregate, aimed at automating search & discovery of individuals in online communities.

My third foundering experience, but first time raising venture capital.
Departed in early-2024 due to shifting company scope & vision.

Later acquired by Bevy (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250708851996/en/Bevy-Acquires-Intros-AI-to-Launch-Engagement-Hub-to-Personalize-Community-at-Scale)

### Global Markets Engineering Associate @ Goldman Sachs
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | New York, New York, United States
Working for Goldman Sachs Marquee - I was on the Execution team tasked with building and maintaining the Marquee trading platform. Within this team, I worked on the Commodities and FX teams, where I was one of the lead developers and shared management responsibilities pertaining to the Commodities team.

Over my 3 years on the team, I made the following key contributions:

1. Developed an orderbook to introduce Commodities Agency trading to the platform.
2. Architected and implemented asset-neutral server-side filtering of order data, and oversaw the rollout of this filtering mechanism to the Marquee platform
3. Architected and implemented an asset neutral quote-streaming grid, and integrated FX Swaps, Commod Principal, and Commod Agency assets onto the platform.
4. Automated testing of over 300 user workflows using Selenium webdriver 
5. Managed an initiative to bring Commodities test coverage above 75%
6. Implemented and managed the introduction of commodities options trading to the Marquee platform

### Commodities Research and Development Analyst @ Goldman Sachs
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | New York, New York, United States
While working at Goldman Sachs, I contributed to Commodities R&D.
This team experimented with future "cutting edge" technologies that would either fail or 10x productivity in areas of the firm.

We built an event-driven, robotic-patterned trading system that would identify market movements and integrate with existing trader communication platforms.

Traders use it to automatically flag market conditions for which they manually monitor, and the firm gains data into the rational and insights of its traders.
This data is used to educate future traders and lowers the cost of churn to the firm.

### Global Markets Engineering Analyst @ Goldman Sachs
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | New York, New York

### Securities Lending Engineering Analyst @ Goldman Sachs
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | New York, New York
I worked on Securities Lending within Prime Brokerage at Goldman Sachs.
My responsibilities included decoupling long-running processes from single-threaded machines, identifying high-cpu API requests and multi-threading those, and exposing optimized processes via UI and UX for client input via the product.

### Kairos Fellow @ Kairos
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020
Focusing the next generation on problems worth solving.

### CTO, Co-Founder (2x, 1 acq.) @ Various Startups
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018
Bootstrapped 2 companies.

1) A data-aggregate and transfer platform called VIPP, targeting the events sector. Acquired in 2016 by Magnises.

2) A crowd-funded algorithmic trading platform for cryptocurrency called Cryptolect.
Ran arbitrage strategies on Litecoin, Bitcoin, and Ethereum across US, European, and Asian markets. Shut down in mid-2018 due to the legal ambiguity facing the cryptocurrency sector.


## Education
### BS in Major: Computer Science; Minors: Financial Mathematics, Business (Ross)
University of Michigan College of Engineering


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22