Anthony Freda
Lead Software Engineer
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Where I've worked
- Yum Brands
- DigitalOcean
- 1V1ME
- P00LS
- Movement Mortgage
- Diligent
- Bank of America
Recent work
Experience
2025 – now
Yum Brands, Lead Software Engineer
Leading zero-to-one development of a federated GraphQL inventory platform, driving the major architecture decisions ahead of planned store production use in 2027.
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- Designed the Domain Graph Service architecture for a multi-tenant platform on Apollo Federation, with shared GraphQL and TypeScript patterns.
- Drove AI-assisted development across the team. Every engineer now uses AI daily.
- Set up shared AI instructions and codebase context, and introduced spec-driven development.
- Shipped automated AI pull-request review with final human sign-off, plus reusable AI tooling for team workflows.
- Lead hiring, mentorship, and onboarding for a complex distributed system.
2024 – 2025
DigitalOcean, Senior Software Engineer II
Worked across DigitalOcean's entire AI platform: agents, function calling, retrieval and evaluations.
Technical lead on the GenAI agent platform, guiding engineers and shaping the roadmap.
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- Personally implemented hybrid search and query expansion for RAG capabilities released to customers.
- Implemented reranking and wrote evaluations comparing retrieval strategies and configurations.
- Used Tree-sitter to parse code into searchable chunks for RAG pipelines.
- Built agent function calling and OpenSearch retrieval across Python, Go, MySQL, TypeScript, and React.
- Delivered chatbot customization and accessibility work; migrated GPU workflows to TypeScript and tRPC.
2022 – 2024
1V1ME, Senior Software Engineer
Built Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind apps, including real-time match viewing with chat and multiple viewing perspectives.
- Developed Electron desktop apps with automatic updates.
- Integrated payments and esports APIs for Call of Duty, Apex Legends, and Fortnite.
2021 – 2022
P00LS, Senior Software Engineer
Built content management and consumer apps with Next.js, TypeScript, Firebase, and GraphQL.
- Implemented a gamified ERC20 token earning system; delivered localization and accessibility features.
2021
Movement Mortgage, Lead Software Engineer
- Led hiring and set up Agile development processes.
- Built a custom CRM in React and Redux; migrated applications from JavaScript to TypeScript.
2019 – 2021
Diligent, Senior Software Engineer
- Built and scaled React and TypeScript applications across multiple products.
- Implemented a micro-frontend architecture.
2017 – 2019
Bank of America, AVP, Senior Software Engineer
- Built Next.js and GraphQL applications.
- Received Gold and Bronze performance awards.
2015 – 2017
Before that
- Web Developer, BRK Global Marketing
- Freelance full-stack
Hiring for AI, platform, or product engineering?
I've been shipping production software for 10+ years, and I spend about half my week on product and design.
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About me
I'm a lead software engineer. Right now I lead zero-to-one platform work and team-wide AI adoption at Yum Brands.
Before that I built customer-facing retrieval at DigitalOcean: hybrid search, query expansion, reranking, and the evaluations to choose between them.
I live in Charlotte with my wife and our French bulldog, Ellie. She's the one on the pack.
Skills
- Languages
- TypeScript · JavaScript · Python · Go
- AI & retrieval
- RAG · Hybrid search · Query expansion · Reranking · Retrieval evaluation · Tree-sitter · OpenSearch · Agent workflows · Function calling
- Platforms
- React · Next.js · Node.js · GraphQL · Apollo Federation · PostgreSQL · MySQL · Docker · GitHub Actions · Spec-driven development