Andrea de Candia

Product Engineer

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Software

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AudioTales Photograph a picture book and hear it read aloud in 130+ languages, or in your own recorded voice

Rogue Calculator Roguelike fought on the screen and keys of a beat-up retro calculator, where every key you press wears out and breaks

Cruffled Daily crossword jumble puzzle game with an O(1) letter tile state engine, packaged as an applet and mobile app

Square Swaps Godot 4 match-2x2 puzzle game in GDScript, with ten hand-built art themes and a self-hosted pipeline that builds and submits to both app stores

Weatherie Polymorphic dynamic UI weather platform with JSON-driven layout engine, offline geo-search, and WASM compilation

Tackry Local-first Android productivity application with Room SQLite and notification action preservation for instant replies

GameTsunami Gaming browser, short-form media, and generative development platform where Gemini runs an autonomous reasoning loop

Found Teams Non-profit platform for joining, starting and hiring worker cooperatives ('Tinder for coop teams') with mutual opt-in matching and Fastify OpenAPI

Experience

Founding Product Engineer

Advection Software

2023 — Present

Direct concurrent AI agents across custom remote gateways to ship features in parallel.
Wrap AI agents in headless execution harnesses to autonomously build and verify code.
Architect portable, node-based knowledge networks for decentralized agent context.
Deliver and maintain numerous products from concept to release on iOS, Android, and web.

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Software Engineer

Mesa Cloud, Inc.

2022 — 2023

Architected Python/Pandas/FastAPI ETL microservices processing millions of student records across school districts.
Led migration of legacy monolithic SQL engine to parallel distributed microservices on AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
Engineered production-parity end-to-end testing with automated PII anonymization.

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Staff Software Engineer

Intellisense.io

2020 — 2022

Authored custom 3D voxel-to-column translation math library and event-driven microservices bridging industrial telemetry with predictive AI.
Led technical roadmaps and managed containerized artifact delivery (Docker/K8s).

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Full Stack Engineer

Giesecke + Devrient

2018 — 2020

Engineered MWC vehicle HMI biometric Android app with hardware serial bridging for secure mobility.
Developed high-volume Java/Spring microservices for telecom messaging and automated testing engines.

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Junior Software Developer

AIA (Aplicaciones En Informática Avanzada)

2018 — 2018

Architected containerized services for predictive model orchestration.
Designed reusable data visualization components using D3 and Plotly.

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Knowledge Tree

DIGITAL GARDEN & ARCHITECTURAL BLUEPRINTS

Inside the Engineering Brain

A public 31-node technical library documenting every system trade-off, algorithmic breakthrough, failure post-mortem, and full-lifecycle pipeline in production.

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