CTO | Co-Founder @ Swivel
Charlie Robison
Building production-grade AI, data, and backend systems for real-world outcomes.
CTO and co-founder at Swivel, where I build production-grade AI, data, and backend systems that turn real customer data into actionable decisions. My focus is on shipping scalable systems that work in messy, real-world environments.
- CTO & Co-FounderCurrent Role
- AI, ML & Data — Full Stack VersatilityProduction Focus
YC hackathon builds, research tooling, and production-oriented AI systems.
Arceus (Robot Training Generation) - YC x Google DeepMind Hackathon
Mar 2026 - Mar 2026
Developed a multi-agent vision simulation using Gemini VLMs where attacker and defender agents competed in a 3D environment using live camera streams. The models learned from each round by storing summarized experiences in context, creating synthetic data for reinforcement learning training in MuJoCo robotics environments.
- Reinforcement Learning
- VLM
- Robotics
- 3D Rendering
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Software Development
Bio Fact (Biology Research Paper Fact Checker) - YC Hackathon
Mar 2026 - Mar 2026
Built an AI-powered research validation system at a YC Bio Hackathon that fact-checks scientific papers by reproducing their experiments. AI agents extract claims from papers, generate synthetic datasets matching reported patterns, and automatically structure experiments to run on Tamarind cell models via MCP tool calls -- allowing rapid verification of biological research.
- Synthetic Data Generation
- Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Interdisciplinary Collaboration
- AI Agents
- Software Development
GTFO (Automatic Moving Tool) - YC Hackathon
Feb 2026 - Feb 2026
Built a multi-agent browser automation system that can autonomously move someone to a new city: discovering housing, submitting applications, updating addresses across websites, ordering a U-Haul, and furnishing the new home via Amazon using image-based inventory estimation. Demonstrates how coordinated AI agents can automate complex life logistics end-to-end.
- Browser Agents
- AI Agents
- Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- OpenClaw
Pythia (Polymarket Autonomous Trader) - YC Hackathon
Feb 2026 - Feb 2026
Built a ChatGPT MCP application that enables users to discover and trade prediction markets on Polymarket using AI agents. The system uses a vector database to semantically search markets and channels based on user queries, then deploys AI agents to analyze market conditions and generate trading recommendations. It also includes an automated trading mode that executes trades on the highest-probability opportunities identified by the agents.
- Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Vector Databases
- AI Agents
- Web Scraping
- Software Development
PaleoBlockNet Web Interface
May 2023 - May 2024
A web application which utilizes the PaleoBlockNet v1.0 Deep Learning model for reconstructing Northern Hemisphere atmospheric blocking. Acknowledged in a Nature Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01687-y
- Data Science
- Software Development
- Project Management
- Technical Leadership
- Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Pacific Hurricane Interactive Simulator
Jan 2023 - May 2024
Design and build an online interactive simulator using Javascript teaching students how hurricanes form in the Pacific Ocean by predicting their paths under certain conditions. Build a Rest API using Django to send wind data and sea surface temperature data from NOAA datasets through the API to the interactive simulator to generate accurate simulations.
- JavaScript
- Django REST
- NOAA Data
- Interactive Learning
Social-Plai Screening Platform
May 2023 - Aug 2023
Developed with a team of software engineers a web application which includes video games which help diagnose children with Autism and ADHD.
- Healthcare Tech
- Web Applications
- Team Engineering
- Games
Career progression across startup leadership, enterprise logistics, and research engineering.
CTO | Co-Founder
Swivel Churn
For subscription companies that implement retention practices to reduce churn, Swivel creates synthetic customer segments replicating their target audience, exactly why different customer segments might churn and identify the best strategies to retain.
Full Stack Developer
Hawaii Foodservice Alliance LLC
Work closely with operations to design and develop a series of software applications to improve our logistics and distribution problems. Built a full end-to-end Transportation Management System software application which includes a Driver's application for deliveries/pickups, route optimization scheduling, metrics for optimizing inefficiencies, and pages for data clean up.
Web Application Developer
Business Solution Technologies
Develop the frontend and backend for new components for web applications and software.
Full Stack Web Application Developer
Karamperidou Research Group
Design and build the frontend and backend of an interactive web application which runs a machine learning model created by Dr. Christina Karamperidou that takes in a dataset, climatology, and time range and produces plots of pressure blocking frequency as a percentage, plots of time series, and an animation between years of plots. Contributions acknowledged in a Nature Climate & Earth Science publication.
Web Application Developer
Hawaii Digital Health Lab
Developed with a team of software engineers a web application which includes video games which help diagnose children with Autism and ADHD.
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science.
Open to technical leadership, product engineering, and high-impact software collaborations.