CTO | Co-Founder @ Swivel

Charlie RobisonBuilding 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 + Data SystemsProduction Focus
  • Logistics + Climate + HealthDomain Impact

Featured Work

Selected systems spanning retention AI, logistics software, and scientific web applications.

Atmospheric Blocking Analytics Platform

Atmospheric Blocking Analytics Platform

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.

  • Climate Data
  • Scientific Software
  • Model Visualization
  • Full Stack
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Pacific Hurricane Interactive Simulator

Pacific Hurricane Interactive Simulator

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
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Social-Plai Screening Platform

Social-Plai Screening Platform

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
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Skills Snapshot

Engineering, delivery, and cross-functional execution from early build to production scale.

Top Skills (LinkedIn)

Computer NetworkingProject ManagementInterdisciplinary Collaboration

Frontend + Product

JavaScriptReactHTMLCSSWorkflow Design

Backend + Data

PythonDjango REST FrameworkAPI DesignData PipelinesMachine Learning Integration

Infrastructure + Ops

AWSDockerMongoDBMySQLComputer Networking

Journey

Career progression across startup leadership, enterprise logistics, and research engineering.

Sep 2025 - Present

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.

Apr 2024 - Dec 2025

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.

Feb 2024 - Apr 2024

Web Application Developer

Business Solution Technologies

Develop the frontend and backend for new components for web applications and software.

Jan 2023 - May 2024

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.

May 2023 - Aug 2023

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.

2019 - 2024

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.

Let's build systems that scale, measure what matters, and create real leverage.