whoami
- Software Engineer
- Startup Founder
+ Both, at once.
cat status.json
{
"focus": "Building something cool",
"location": "Las Vegas, NV",
"status": "Coding..."
}
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FIG. 00 — BASED REMOTE / OPEN TO RELOCATE
Salvatore Ribaudo
7 years shipping software. 4 years founding companies. I build the systems, then build the business around them.
About
FIG. 01 — PROFILE
Simplicity is the interface. Everything else is a detail.
I'm a software engineer and founder who values the art of building something from the ground up. I've started numerous companies, and every one of them started the same way, I ran into a problem myself, couldn't find something that solved it well, and built it.
Today that's Rivaudo, DBByte, Webdever, and WebDevX. I still write code most days, because the fastest way to know if a product idea is real is to build the smallest working version of it yourself.
I'm drawn to hard technical problems with a clear business behind them: systems that need to be correct, fast, and worth paying for.
Ventures
FIG. 02 — COMPANIESSelected Work
FIG. 03 — PROJECTSLedger
An open-source event-sourcing framework for building auditable financial systems, handling ordering and replay at high write volume.
Splice CLI
A command-line tool that generates typed API clients from OpenAPI specs, used across three of my own companies' codebases.
Fieldline Scheduler
The core scheduling engine behind Fieldline, resolving conflicting contractor availability across thousands of jobs per day.
Notes on Building Twice
A running series on what changes technically and organizationally the second time you found a company, versus the first.
Undertow
A chaos-engineering harness that injects network partitions, clock skew, and packet loss into consensus protocols via eBPF, surfacing liveness bugs before production does.
Driftwatch
Watches your API and database schemas over time, flags breaking changes before they ship, and generates the migration for you automatically.
Backchannel
A negotiation engine for two-sided marketplaces that finds Pareto-optimal matches when both sides have private constraints they won't disclose directly.
Half-Life
An interactive essay on why most two-sided marketplaces die in their first 18 months — a playable simulation instead of a blog post.
AI Lab
FIG. 04 — LIVE MODELHey — I'm running on my own hardware, not a third-party API. Ask something about the work on this page, or just say hi.
This chat calls out to a Llama model served from my own inference stack. No OpenAI, no Anthropic, just a box running Ollama on my own hardware.
Stack
FIG. 05 — TOOLSLanguages
- TypeScript
- Go
- Rust
- Python
Infrastructure
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Kafka
Data
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- ClickHouse
- Elasticsearch
Product
- React / Next.js
- Figma
- Linear
- Stripe
Building something worth a conversation?
I take on a small number of advisory engagements and technical co-founder conversations each quarter. If that's what you're building, reach out directly.
[email protected]