Robert L.

About Robert L.

I am a software engineer and security researcher who is passionate about building scalable solutions to satisfy business needs in a timely manner. I have experience both as an individual contributor and leading small teams through designing, building, deploying, and maintaining applications using a variety of technologies (most recently working in Solidity, Typescript, Go, Rust). I have designed, built, and maintained applications on-chain and with multiple cloud providers using with both SQL and NoSQL technologies on distributed systems. I also love the outdoors, quantum computing and brazilian jiu-jitsu. Feel free to reach out!I am also an independent web3 security researcher that enjoys building, teaching and learning. Want to level up as a web3 engineer? I am the co-organizer of SolidtyATL. Our mission is to foster a free to join continuous learning community for web3 engineers both in person and remote. Based out of @KITTLABS we provide educational workshops, presentations, hackathon events, networking sessions and courses to help engineers improve their web3 skills, increase their income, and connect with professional mentors in the web3 space.We are free to join: https://solidity-atl.kittlabs.io/

Experience

1. Co-founder & Lead Engineer

   Layerlens

   Aug 2024 — Present

   Co-Founder & Lead Engineer at LayerLens, building Atlas—an enterprise AI evaluation platform for generative AI models and agents. Architected, developed, and maintained core systems across the full stack (infra, backend and frontend), including the evaluation engine and enterprise platform features. Lead 8 engineers through technical architecture, CI/CD, and product development.Technical stack Stack: Go, TypeScript, Python, Solidity, AWS, Docker, MongoDB, Postgres- Architected and built the core Evaluation Engine in Go, a distributed system that orchestrates AI model evaluations against benchmarks, handling both single-turn (Q&A) and multi-turn (docker based) benchmarks through a scalable ETL pipeline. Established the pattern other developers used to add additional benchmarks to LayerLen\'s catalog- Lead development of the Enterprise Platform and established release cycle, launching features including a model registry supporting 200+ models, custom model and benchmark support, SDK with API key access, and a payments/credits system, enabling customers to evaluate AI custom models and agents- Architected and maintained AWS cloud infrastructure using CDK with automated CI/CD pipelines across dev, staging, and production environments, implementing scaling, permissions push-button deployments, Slack alerting, and code review standards to support platform growth- Lead a team of engineers through technical architecture, code reviews, and product development, working directly with the CEO and business team to align engineering execution with business goals, customer support and drive product strategy.

Education

• Georgia Institute of Technology

  Bachelor’s Degree, Physics

  2011 — 2015

• University of Oregon

  Master’s Degree, Applied Physics with a concentration in semiconductor physics

  2015 — 2016