Engineer · Founder · AI fleet operator
Joseph Dattilo
I build the systems industries run on — and I run the AI fleet that builds them. Twenty-plus years shipping at scale across hardware, software, and operations: missile-defense radar, semiconductor test, embedded products, production software, and now a suite of tools for teams that put humans and AI agents on the same work.
500+ products released since 2011
2018 shipping production AI since (NLP, pre-LLM)
6.5 yrs US Air Force space operations
Daily operating a fleet of AI coding agents
Then, now, next
Then: I built hardware and software products and ran the companies behind them — an Arduino-ecosystem electronics business with in-house manufacturing, semiconductor test programs, test infrastructure at Dell, program leadership at Rigado and Greater Giving, and manufacturing software shaped on real factory floors.
Now: I ship products by operating a fleet of AI coding agents — with the queues, scoped credentials, and transport-level guardrails that make that safe. The business I co-founded and run, MyPaintBuckets, runs on software the fleet and I build — with Rebel Paint launching next.
Next: the same discipline, productized — the FleetHarbor suite: RepoHarbor, TaskHarbor, FleetHarbor, and NeuroHarbor. Every product is built by the fleet it manages.
What I do
Applied AI, without the hype
Production NLP since 2018, LLM integrations since they existed, and agent fleets today. I don't sell AI slogans — I ship systems where AI does real work behind human approval gates. I write about how.
Software & systems through Date Palm Media
Web platforms, process automation, integrations, and product delivery for real businesses — the company I founded in 2011 and still run.
Down to the metal
Hardware, firmware, embedded, RF, semiconductor test, DevOps, and manufacturing operations. When the workflow is messy, physical, and operationally real, that's where I'm strongest. The full track record.
What I'm building
Open source (Apache-2.0 core), nearing general availability
RepoHarbor
Stop your agents from blowing up the repo.
A git control plane for teams running AI coding agents. Branch protection, PR mediation, and credential custody enforced at the git transport layer — agents hold only scoped, revocable tokens, never a personal access token. Prompts are advisory; transport is not.
Open source (Apache-2.0 core), nearing general availability
TaskHarbor
One board. Your team and your agents pull from the same queue.
The work system of record for human + AI teams: a kanban tracker with atomic claim-locks, agent queues, human-gated scoping, and board-scoped agent tokens. The discipline you put up for your agents is exactly what your human team always needed.
Early access track
FleetHarbor
Give your agents real power, without handing over your keys.
A fleet control plane: isolated agent pods that hold nothing but one scoped gateway token, with every credential mediated server-side and a published threat model. The control plane I run my own agent fleet on, every day.
The businesses
Software I co-own that runs a real industry — production systems with real customers, and the next one on deck. Same builder, same fleet, same discipline as the suite.
In production — core project
MyPaintBuckets
The system of record for new-residential painting operations.
Project details, material ordering, extra-paint-order capture, scheduling, and invoicing for painting contractors. Co-founded by Joseph Dattilo — the core ongoing project, mature software with real customers.
Upcoming
Rebel Paint
Agents do the chasing; humans keep the approval gates.
The leverage side of the same painting vertical — AI agents drive the follow-up work behind human approval gates.