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Hey! I am Frankie Ottomanelli
Senior Full Stack Engineer | AI Developer Experience.

NYC Metro Area.

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About

As a self-taught software engineer with 10+ years of experience, I’ve built a career that runs from J.Crew’s digital experiences to shipping UI for the Grand Theft Auto series at Rockstar Games. Today I’m an AI Developer Experience Engineer at Grow Therapy, where I’m building AI-powered developer tooling and exploring agent-based workflows — including a CI failure investigator built on the Claude Code SDK, an AI PR reviewer that evaluates changes using full-repository context, and creating safe interfaces and tools for AI to interact with to help accelerate developer workflows and velocity.

On the full-stack side, I’ve driven measurable impact across health tech, fintech, gaming, and eCommerce — rebuilding invoice validation pipelines that cut insurance-claim denials by 36%, designing real-time dashboards with anomaly alerting, and leading security hardening efforts including encrypted form submissions. My academic background in Psychology and Public Relations gives me a people-first lens for understanding user needs and communicating trade-offs across product and engineering.

Outside of work, I tinker in fintech: I built an automated investing tool for Prosper loans that evaluates nearly 200 data points and has generated a 7% annualized return since 2022, and I founded Turtto, a free ETF comparison platform that reached ~1,000 monthly users. I’m also focused on tinkering with AI agents and coming up with ways to improve their efficiency, accuracy, and memory.

When I’m not working, I’m playing basketball, hiking, or recharging with my wife Anna, our daughter Nova, and our pets. I’m also deep into sci-fi lately and teaching myself piano.

Work Experience

02/2026 — Present

AI Developer Experience Engineer - Grow Therapy

I'm working on making engineers faster with AI. I built a CI failure investigator on the Claude Code SDK that diagnoses pipeline breaks and posts root-cause summaries to Slack and PRs — saving engineers 1–5 hours a week. I also built an AI-powered PR reviewer that looks at full-repository context instead of just diffs, and I've been creating safe interfaces for AI to interact with to help accelerate developer workflows and velocity.

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In this ever-evolving world of technology, collaboration fuels innovation. So whether you're intrigued by my work, have an idea for a potential project, or just want to exchange thoughts on the latest tech trends, I'd be thrilled to chat with you! No idea is too big or small, and the simplest "hello" can lead to the most meaningful dialogues. So go ahead, let's connect and create something extraordinary together!

Feel free to email me at frankie.ottomanelli(at)gmail(dot)com.

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