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Dominic Cicilio

@dominiccicilio

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Full-stack product builder focused on secure, end-to-end software for startups.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I want to build end-to-end products with founders and customers—well-designed, reliable, and secure—while moving fast with AI tooling. I’m excited about roles where my experience can match the team’s stage and needs.

I’m a product builder with founder and startup experience, and I’ll put everything on the line to ship software that matches your company’s exact stage. I love building products end to end and working directly with customers, from idea to launch.

I’ve spent 1,500+ hours building alongside AI coding agents like Claude and Codex, and I use that momentum to move quickly without losing quality. My current work is bootstrapped: I built YoAmigo from scratch and shipped a web app, a desktop builder, and an iOS app, with the mobile offering as a developer subscription.

Before YoAmigo, I helped scale early teams and shipping-minded product engineering. At Balance Theory, I built the first recursive ABAC authorization flow with CASL, implemented logging from scratch, set up performance monitoring learnings (including lambda and database bottleneck investigation), and configured OpenTelemetry in Elastic.

I’ve also delivered high-impact frontend and full-stack work in production environments, including leading a deployment tool effort at Tyler Technologies, proposing and implementing large architecture improvements, and improving CMS performance and scalability. I bring a calm, customer-first engineering mindset—well-designed, reliable, secure, and built to last.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Solo Founder

Current

Ciciliostudio LLC & YoAmigo V2

Jun 2025 - Present (1 year 1 month)

Founded Ciciliostudio LLC and built YoAmigo from scratch, evolving it from a secure music-sharing tool into a desktop-based web application builder. Shipped a web app, desktop builder, and iOS app, and marketed and sold the product directly to customers.

Claude Codex Supabase Vercel Upstash Tauri OpenObserve React Native

Founding Senior Software Engineer

Protege AI

Apr 2025 - May 2025 (1 month)

Joined as the 2nd engineer at an early-stage startup building AI tooling to streamline marketing reviews for legal teams across design and written content. Left after two months due to misalignment with the founder.

Word Extension Temporal Railway React

Senior Fullstack Engineer

Balance Theory

Sep 2022 - Jan 2025 (2 years 4 months)

Joined pre-seed as the 3rd engineer and the 5th employee, focusing on UI/UX. Built an authorization flow with CASL, implemented logging and diffing, set up OpenTelemetry in Elastic, and completed performance monitoring to identify lambda and database bottlenecks.

Azure Vercel TypeScript Prisma Postgres Elastic TailwindCSS GitHub Actions CASL OpenTelemetry

Founder | Developer | Designer

YoAmigo

Jun 2021 - Aug 2022 (1 year 2 months)

Founded and built YoAmigo from scratch as a friend-finding service for people with high social anxiety. Led full-stack development, including product design and shipping multiple milestone releases over 1.5 years.

Vercel React Stripe TypeScript Material UI Postgres Hasura Emotion styled components Supabase Auth0 NodeJS Yarn AWS

Senior Software Engineer

Tyler Technologies - Data & Insights

Aug 2018 - Mar 2022 (3 years 7 months)

Led development of a custom-app/homepage deployment tool, including a CLI with professional documentation. Proposed and implemented large-scale architecture changes, improved CMS performance and maintainability, and enabled efficient local development by connecting the local stack to staging services.

TypeScript React Redux jQuery SASS CSS Modules AWS Webpack Gulp Python Ruby on Rails Postgres Jest Karma Chai Mocha Git GitHub Bitbucket

Frontend Software Engineer

National Technical Institute of the Deaf

Jan 2016 - Oct 2018 (2 years 9 months)

Spearheaded development of a new user-facing web application, contributing 90% frontend and 10% backend work. Improved development workflows with version control and CI, and delivered a modern, accessible web app used by over 1,000 hard of hearing individuals worldwide.

JavaScript AngularJS SASS jQuery Git Gitlab CI Webpack Grunt Gulp Java Selenium NodeJS

Co-Founder & Web VR Software Engineer

Pardo

Jun 2017 - Aug 2017 (2 months)

Co-founded Pardo, a VR startup venture focused on tactile physics education, after receiving a $10,000 grant. Worked on software development, organizing the team, and researching customers, and the project was not launched.

JavaScript A Frame Oculus Webpack AWS EC2 Firebase NodeJS