Founder & Engineer · Toronto / Miami
Ethan Daley
What I'm Building
I'm Ethan Daley, an engineer across web, iOS, APIs, security and AI, and founder of TNAADO Inc. (Toronto) and TNAADO Labs (Miami). This is my engineering home: what I run, the stack I reach for, and live GitHub activity.
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The Story
I'm Ethan Daley, founder of TNAADO. I build what the market actually wants — and I win by making things sharper and more efficient than what's already out there.
I run a firm across Toronto and Miami. We enter a market where a better, more efficient product can earn its place, build it premium, and let deep expertise and real market feedback push it further. That's how you become a name a market trusts instead of just another launch.
I came up building for live use, hands on every layer. Now I lead teams with specific focuses and real expertise, and my edge is putting the right people on the right problems. The talent I've brought together is what I'm proudest of — it's what turns a firm into real market capability.
How I Build
Build what the market wants. I don't build to be clever. I build where there's a real gap and a real efficiency to win, then earn my place as a dependable player.
Strategic entry, premium execution. I pick the spots where a sharper approach beats the incumbent and build it premium from day one. Prototypes go straight into live use to pull real feedback fast.
Expertise first, market second. Deep domain knowledge sets the direction; what real users tell me refines it. Together, that's what makes the work reliable.
I lead teams, not just code. I learned every layer hands on, so I know exactly what I'm asking for — but my leverage now is direction, taste, and the right people on the right problems.
A stack I trust. Next.js + TypeScript, Supabase, Vercel. Boring on purpose, so the focus stays on the product and the market, not the tooling.
Reliable innovator. The goal isn't a viral moment; it's becoming the premium, efficient option a market can count on.
Systems I've Built
Tector
44 edge functions
Protection-services platform: 82 migrations, 205 tables and views, 270 SQL functions, Stripe Connect settlements, two SwiftUI apps.
Citadel
Local-first AI
Electron desktop AI for regulated professionals: bundled Ollama engine, ECDSA-signed audit chain, Whisper, RAG, MCP servers.
Model training
QLoRA + RAFT
Mistral-7B fine-tuning on RunPod GPUs, merged and converted to GGUF for on-device inference.
Billing and admin
162 migrations
Books, payroll and HST ledger with role-gated staff, Stripe dunning, an idempotent feed API and 29 API routes.
Wildin
47 edge functions
Marketplace on Expo and native SwiftUI: Stripe Connect payouts, Onfido ID checks, Twilio, 335 RLS policy statements.
The Dispatch
14 live feeds
Newsroom with a live map fed by 14 ingestion adapters (511, transit, weather, 311, fire, police calls), plus reader and capture iOS apps.
The Shoot
23 edge functions
Crew booking app with payouts, invoices, Google Calendar sync and 59 migrations.
Native iOS
10 Swift apps
630+ Swift files across SwiftUI apps with StoreKit, MapKit, Vision, MusicKit, CryptoKit and APNs.
Portal Connect
106 migrations
Vite and Supabase portal with 224 tables and views, 90 triggers, 8 edge functions and RLS throughout.
Free tools site
220+ pages
Static tools site with data lookups (NPI, ICD-10, NDC, HCPCS), IndexNow and bounded manual ad slots.
Claude Code layer
22 CLIs
Custom vault, ledger, Search Console and graph tooling, 19 guard hooks, 11 agents, 49 skills.
Data layer
700+ migrations
14 Postgres backends: 1,000+ SQL functions, 400+ triggers and 1,700+ RLS policy statements.
Stack
Languages
Web
Mobile and Apple platforms
APIs and backend
Data
Security
AI and ML
DevOps and infra
Tooling
Commerce
Media
Comms