Dante Puglisi

Advises early-stage founders through focused 1:1 sessions before investor conversations, providing an outside assessment of the idea, business model, product scope, pitch credibility, priorities, and immediate risks.

Leads product and technology for an AI-native peer-to-peer real estate marketplace in Portugal, making property transactions more direct while lawyers and notaries support the legal work. Uses AI to turn incomplete seller input into structured property information, enable natural-language discovery, reason across descriptions, images and geographic context, and assist with transaction documents.

Leads product and technology across an independent product studio, from opportunity assessment and business model through UX, architecture, implementation, launch, and iteration. Builds and ships mobile and AI-powered products using Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, Vision, multimodal AI APIs, structured outputs, Firebase, subscriptions, widgets, and background processing.

Recruited to build the augmented reality component that downloads 3D models and renders them at precise real-world coordinates; subsequently asked to rebuild the complete app from scratch. Worked with ARCore Geospatial, localization and orientation accuracy, world-state management, and production crash diagnosis.

Built GolfZone product capabilities combining machine learning and augmented reality to help golfers analyze and improve their game; the project was later cancelled for external reasons.

Developed a native Bluetooth framework in Swift and integrated JavaScript libraries so Ledger applications could communicate with blockchain wallets.

Contributed to a retail inventory platform that maps showroom and backroom items and displays their live position in a 3D environment.

Owned product and engineering for a UI/UX-focused fitness app released on the App Store in December 2020. Company acquired in November 2021, 11 months after launch.

Built native iOS software for a Zurich-based B2B platform used by large organizations to make high-profile meetings and confidential document workflows more productive.

Recruited to build CollegeHumor's App Store application, creating a polished native experience centered on video and GIF content.

Delivered native iOS projects for US clients as part of a distributed product team.

Worked on the iOS app for Argentina's most-read newspaper, consistently positioned among the leading local News apps.