Tony Gravagno

Updated May 2024

I’m an avid technologist, small business owner, and entrepreneur, living in Mission Viejo, California. Email Link

I'm a communicator, linking ideas and information between people with discussion and writing, and between machines with programs - it's all the same, I connect dots.

I love to hear challenges from business owners and managers, to collaborate on the planning and implementation of solutions. It doesn't matter if the topic is data exchange, cost reduction, shipping, reporting, marketing, employee relations, or product life-cycle management - there's nothing more satisfying to me than solving problems - and getting paid for it.

I think in terms of business models and I love the process: Identify a problem, solve the specific problem, think about how similar more generalized problems can be solved for a broader audience, document a business plan and finanacial model. If it's worth doing, go for it. Rinse and repeat.

I'm a frequent contributor in many public forums and FOSS projects, and a prolific writer of technical documentation, blogs, and articles.

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I specialized in the Pick/MultiValue DBMS for about 38 years. I retired from that industry but still co-manage a couple industry forums and rarely comment anymore in public.

I've always kept up with current technology to apply my skills to modern business and personal challenges. I've written and mainained business applications in many languages and protocols including BASIC, Java, C#, Perl, PHP and numerous flavors of these and others.

These days I'm focused almost exclusively on TypeScript and React for development of front-ends for my own businesses, running over my own Ubuntu/OpenStack cloud.

I'm heavily vested in the WordPress ecosystem as a developer, minor contributor to core and docs, and user of the platform for my own business needs.

I also spend a great deal of time developing and keeping up with AI, LLM, RAG, memory, agents, etc.

Outsite of that I enjoy gardening, and sci-fi, and have a lifelong passion for languages (fluent in Esperanto), and astronomy and other sciences. I'm a former (mediocre) musician, and find that all of these interests have contributed to a well-rounded view as a citizen of the world.

Want to contact me? I'm one of the most accessible people on the interwebs. In addition to the social networks below, and Email, if you work with WordPress, you can catch me in the WordPress Slack group.