Founding & Staff Engineer

Anthony B. Tedesco

Founding & Staff Engineer

I build entire companies end-to-end — often as one of two engineers.

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2019
building since
SAA-C03
AWS certified
5
live products shipped
4
companies co-founded

Positioning

Four companies, built from an empty repo. Since 2019 I've founded or co-founded Roley, AGFarms, Verified Fishing, and Interactive Patagonia — writing the schema, the backend, the app, the smart contracts, and the Kubernetes that runs them. I don't hand off the hard parts; I own the whole system from first commit to production traffic. Comfortable being the person who makes the entire thing exist.

Selected work

Verified Fishing, Inc.Founding Engineer
Apr 2026 – Present · Delaware C-Corp · derby.fish

Full-stack mobile platform plus AI catch-verification for competitive fishing, built end-to-end by two engineers across 20+ repos. One Expo / React Native / Next.js codebase ships to iOS, Android, and web over real-time Python + Node.js WebSocket APIs. AI verification stack (YOLO + OpenAI Vision over a 419-species DB), on-chain Fish Cards on Flow, and a 279-migration data layer (100+ tables, 300+ RLS policies) feeding a 40-model dbt medallion exposed to AI agents over MCP.

Roley Inc.Founding Engineer · solo
2023 – 2024 · casting-automation SaaS · 14 repos

Started the company alone and wrote every line. A fleet of ephemeral applier agents podded into Docker and orchestrated on a Kubernetes setup I built auto-applied to acting roles across fragmented casting platforms. Actors loved it; the platforms blocked the bots into the ground. messager-roley alone: 1,522 commits.

AGFarms LLC — Nucleus BrainFounding Engineer · 50/50
Mid 2024 – Present · venture studio · agfarms.dev

Author of record on the studio's production portfolio. Built Nucleus Brain (open-source, 2,216 commits) — an agentic-infrastructure platform with native MCP transport (Claude / Anthropic / OpenAI), a real-time NodeGraph, RAG retrieval, CronJob agent passes, and a Neo4j knowledge graph — deployed on a hand-rolled k3s cluster (Hetzner, 15+ namespaces). Also the Walleye Fest tournament portal (Rust + Next.js) and studio products (Happy Swims, Patagonia Moto, AGFPay).

Interactive Patagonia SpACo-operator
2025 – Present · LATAM operations

Built and run the full booking suite for a bike & motorcycle rental fleet — Segway Xyber, e-bikes, and motorcycles — for a Chilean SpA at the bottom of Patagonia.

Toll Road Music (ETHGlobal Buenos Aires) — pay-as-you-go streaming on x402 + Filecoin + Coinbase embedded wallet  ·  PUQ City — digital-city platform: React Native 0.81 / Expo 54, Dynamic Labs passkey wallets, Solidity, Uniswap V4 SDK, Mapbox.

Signals

0→1 by default
Every system here started as an empty repo I created.
Two-engineer scale
Shipped a 20+ repo mobile + AI + blockchain platform with a single collaborator.
Runs its own infra
Hand-rolled k3s cluster, 15+ live venture namespaces, no DevOps hire.

Technical range

Infra
Live k3s cluster (Hetzner, 15+ namespaces, traefik, StatefulSets, CronJobs), Docker / Helm, nginx, GitHub Actions, Linux (Fedora)
Backend & data
Node.js, WebSockets, FastAPI / Express, Supabase + Edge Functions, dbt medallion pipelines, applied CV (YOLO + Vision APIs), AWS IVS / Rekognition
Languages
TypeScript, Python, SQL (PostgreSQL / PostGIS / TimescaleDB), Rust, Go, Solidity, Bash
Frontend
React Native (Expo SDK 54), Next.js 14/15, React 19, Tailwind, Three.js / R3F, Mapbox
AI & web3
MCP transport (FastMCP), Claude / Anthropic / OpenAI SDKs, Nucleus orchestration (NodeGraph + RAG + agent CronJobs); Flow NFTs, x402, Filecoin, Hardhat, Uniswap V4, Dynamic Labs

What I'm looking for

Remote-first — full-time or contract, available immediately. US-hours compatible and comfortable across US and LATAM time zones.

Self-taught — years of building original products end-to-end, from first idea to production. References and a deeper portfolio available on request.