# Albert Orlando

> Senior Full-Stack Engineer. Building Cleanse and agentic developer tools. Founding engineer on Amazon Publisher Cloud. New York.

## Now

Senior Full-Stack Engineer at Agile Defense since January 2026, building full-stack applications for the U.S. Air Force that automate workflows and training procedures inside piloting squadrons.

Previously founder and independent engineer from March 2025 to December 2025, building Cleanse, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, and developer agents on top of Claude and Gemini.

## Selected Work

### Founder & Independent Engineer

Self-directed research, March 2025 to December 2025.

Founded [Cleanse](https://cleanse.sh), a share-target app that turns any shared link, post, or video into a source-preserved summarized item. Live iPhone alpha, built end-to-end.

Built open-source research and developer tooling, including Sparkle, gitingest, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, and agent tooling on top of Claude and Gemini.

### Amazon Publisher Services

Full-stack engineer, August 2022 to March 2025.

One of the founding engineers on Amazon Publisher Cloud from alpha through GA; helped build it into a multi-tenant data-collaboration platform for 50+ enterprise partners, including NBCUniversal, DIRECTV, Warner Bros. Discovery, FOX, and Dotdash Meredith, with role-based access, audit trails, and isolated tenant workflows.

What shipped:

- React and TypeScript vendor-facing UI plus backend services and APIs for onboarding, configuration, data collaboration, and measurement.
- Audience-matching workflows on AWS Clean Rooms that surfaced about 35% additional reach on cookieless browsers, with data-quality checks before production reporting.
- AWS CDK infrastructure for 10+ microservices across multiple accounts.
- On-call rotation holding 99.9% availability across the platform.

### PebblePost

Full-stack engineer, October 2017 to August 2022.

Re-architected v2 of the PDM Campaign Manager, the internal tool 800+ brands used daily, to make complex multi-step workflows feel obvious to non-technical operators.

What shipped:

- A real-time creative editor in the spirit of Facebook Ads Manager, collapsing campaign turnaround from weeks to hours.
- A high-throughput web-beacon ingestion pipeline using a JavaScript tag and Google Pub/Sub, reaching about 80% identity match across 140M+ households.
- REST APIs powering campaigns that drove up to 167% conversion lift in published case studies.

## Projects

- [Cleanse](https://cleanse.sh): A share-target app that turns any shared link, post, or video into a source-preserved summarized item. Live iPhone alpha, built end-to-end.
- [personal-finance-agent](https://github.com/albeorla/personal-finance-agent): Local MCP server for evidence-backed personal finance workflows, including cash-flow projection, drift detection, reconciliation, and traceable calculations.
- [Sparkle](https://github.com/albeorla/sparkle): Local-first solo research tool for claims, evidence, objections, questions, and syntheses.
- [atrp](https://github.com/albeorla/atrp): A research workbench for trading strategies built to reject bad ideas with discipline.
- [gitingest](https://github.com/albeorla/gitingest): Local command-line tool that concatenates a repo's text files into clipboard-ready LLM context.

## Contact

- Email: <albertjorlando@gmail.com>
- LinkedIn: <https://linkedin.com/in/albeorla>
- GitHub: <https://github.com/albeorla>
- X: <https://x.com/albeorla>