Charlie Linville
Founder & Builder — AI & Quantitative Systems
Right now I'm building AI and quantitative systems — agentic security research, location-aware assistants, and white-label creator platforms. Three products shipped in the last year. Co-founded a fintech startup before that. When I'm not shipping, I'm usually reading, making pour-over, or watching F1.
Journey
Founder at Guleki
App publishing company focused on AI-native mobile experiences. Our first product, Geolocate Me, gives AI assistants real-time location context through a private GPS tracker with MCP integration — live on iOS and Android.
CIO & Co-Founder at Agori
Early-stage fintech startup. Ran technology, product, and operations end-to-end. Architected and shipped the production platform (real-time quantitative paper trading competitions) across an 18-system stack on AWS. Built and led a team.
Wisconsin Quantum Computing Club
Participating in seminars on quantum computing and quantum information. Competed in the 2024 IBM Fall Fest hackathon.
UW-Madison Vice Chancellor Study Group
Selected through ASM Shared Governance to represent students. Collaborated monthly with the Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration and university stakeholders on finance and administration topics.
Technology Improvement Consultant — Backpack Society
Architected a system solution and proposal to modernize the website, communication, and storage for a nonprofit supporting 70+ schools with kids in unstable food situations. After board approval, managed budget and infrastructure improvements. Reported to the board of directors as a special advisor.
Cyberpatriots — Cisco Lead
Competed in a national cybersecurity competition run by the Air Force Association. Led Cisco networking for my school team and trained 2+ members each year. Hardened Ubuntu 22, Fedora 36, Windows 10, and Windows Server 2019 systems for competition.
Education
University of Wisconsin-Madison
2024 — 2028BS in Applied Math, Engineering, and Physics (AMEP). Coursework spanning Modern Physics, Linear Algebra, Calculus, Chemistry, and Programming.
University of New South Wales — Study Abroad
Jan — May 2026Semester abroad at UNSW Kensington in Sydney, Australia. Coursework in Numerical Linear Algebra, Philosophy of AI, and Mathematical Computing.
Projects
Dragonfly
2026Built an autonomous security testing engine with model-agnostic execution-time safeguards. Wraps 114 security testing tools behind a composable policy pipeline with scope enforcement, action gating, and kill switches. Provides adapters for MCP, CLI, and LangChain/LangGraph. Ran a scripted ablation study (45 runs) and an LLM behavioral study (60 runs) to evaluate safeguard effectiveness. Includes 1,259 tests and a Docker test range.
Vectale
2026Built a multi-tenant SaaS platform for content creators to manage and deliver branded content to subscribers. Creators get a white-label portal with courses, news, links, and custom pages — all behind tiered subscriptions powered by Stripe Connect. Architected the full stack from domain routing and data isolation to CI/CD pipelines deploying across staging and production on DigitalOcean.
AI Powered Auction Arbitrage Agent
2025Designed and deployed a system that aggregates and evaluates purchasing opportunities in auction markets. Uses a Python analytics pipeline to ingest listings, then performs GPU-accelerated OCR/computer vision and ML matching with an embedding engine to get market comps from a range of marketplaces. Persists results in AWS (DynamoDB, S3) for back testing and future neural network training.
Agent Academy
2025Built an automated evolution system that improves Claude Code agents using genetic algorithms. Treats agent prompts as a population of candidates, tests them against programming benchmarks, scores them with a multi-persona jury of specialized evaluators, and breeds the next generation through crossover and mutation. Runs unattended overnight with checkpoint/resume support.
Covered-Call Optimization Engine
2025Built a covered-call optimization engine that streams live options/price data from Interactive Brokers (IBKR) and recommends strike/expiration and position sizing under capital constraints. Implemented a Monte Carlo risk model to evaluate thousands of scenarios and compute expected P&L, win rate, and Value-at-Risk.
Rydberg Blockade Gate Simulation & Pulse Optimization
2025Simulated neutral-atom qubits in QuTiP: built time-dependent Hamiltonians for ground-to-Rydberg drives with detuning, modeled open-system dynamics via Lindblad operators. Designed and optimized Gaussian control pulses with SciPy to realize single- and two-qubit gates. Produced reproducible Jupyter analyses with parameter sweeps and clear plots of Rabi oscillations, coherence, and state populations.
Also Built
Tennis Alpha Finder
Quantitative in-play tennis betting system exploiting systematic mispricing on Kalshi. Markov chain model trained on 10,972 matches. 85.5% win rate across 152 paper trades.
Auto-Influencer
Multi-account X content automation platform. Ingests 650+ RSS feeds, generates persona-tailored posts with Claude, and schedules natively through the X API.
Idea Generation Engine
AI-powered market opportunity discovery engine processing 650+ RSS feeds. Clusters by similarity with TF-IDF and DBSCAN, surfaces opportunities via local 20B-parameter LLM.
Quantum Error Correction
Neural network for detecting local and non-local errors in quantum computers. Trained on 1M+ simulation runs, achieving 95%+ detection in a 12-qubit system.
Skills & Certifications
Languages
Technologies
Skills
Certifications & Workshops
Misc
- ☕ Specialty coffee — always dialing in the next shot
- ⚛ Quantum computing — from Qiskit summer schools to Rydberg simulations
- 🤖 AI systems — building agents, RAG, memory systems, running local models, prompt engineering
- 🏁 F1 racing — the intersection of engineering and competition
- 💪 Longevity training — optimizing for the long game
Writing
Read more on my Substack