Joseph W. Anady
U.S. Army Sergeant First Class (Retired) · Founder, ThatDeveloperGuy
Joseph W. Anady operates ThatDeveloperGuy from Cassville, Missouri. SDVOSB-certified, SAM.gov registered (UEI FFG3A4SK9HY6). U.S. Army veteran, 100% service-disabled. BA in Computer Engineering from Colorado State University, MA in Cybersecurity in progress at University of Phoenix. TryHackMe WIZARD rank, top 3% globally. Verified Google Business Profile with 5.0 stars across 7 reviews.
Background and approach.
Joseph spent over 20 years in the U.S. Army before retiring at the rank of Sergeant First Class. While in service he held communications and information-systems roles that shaped a discipline around reliability, security, and documentation that now defines every site delivered under the ThatDeveloperGuy brand.
Post-retirement, Joseph earned a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Engineering from Colorado State University and is currently completing a Master of Arts in Cybersecurity at the University of Phoenix. He achieved the TryHackMe WIZARD rank — top 3% globally on the platform's competitive cybersecurity ladder.
ThatDeveloperGuy launched in 2017 (incorporated 2020) as a hand-coded alternative to template-builder web shops. The studio refuses Cloudflare proxying, third-party CDN dependencies, and offshore subcontracting. Every site runs on bare-metal Debian Linux infrastructure under Joseph's direct administrative control via SSH key-only access. Every line of code is hand-written by Joseph personally.
The studio is SDVOSB-certified by the U.S. Small Business Administration under FAR Subpart 19.14, with active SAM.gov registration (UEI FFG3A4SK9HY6). Primary NAICS codes 541511 (Custom Computer Programming Services), 541512 (Computer Systems Design Services), 541519 (Other Computer Related Services), and 518210 (Computing Infrastructure Providers). Eligible for federal set-aside contracts.
Joseph has personally engineered 141 live demo and production builds across 16 industries and 18 paying-client engagements. He maintains 175+ technical articles on dev.to, two MIT-licensed open-source tools on PyPI (aio-surfaces, seo-sidecar), four Zenodo-archived research papers with citable DOIs, and four datasets on Hugging Face. The body of work is permanently archived via Software Heritage.
Third-party verifiable credentials.
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Active Person entity in Google Knowledge Graph.
3 archived videos
Defense Visual Information Distribution Service archive of Joseph's Army service.
Where to find Joseph online.
Citable scholarly output.
AEO Methodology Paper
Defines the four canonical AI-citation surfaces and live Schema.org injection pattern. 10.5281/zenodo.20404971
Crawler Signal Reference Library
30 documents covering every HTML and HTTP signal a web crawler reads. 10.5281/zenodo.20405342
aio-surfaces
Open-source Python toolkit generating llms.txt + aeo.json + entity.json + brand.json. PyPI · DOI
seo-sidecar
FastAPI + nginx SSI sidecar for live Schema.org JSON-LD injection without redeploys. PyPI · DOI
4 published datasets
Engine Optimization Reference, llms.txt Directory Snapshot, AEO Citation Tracking Schema, Crawler Signal Reference. View organization
14+ archived repositories
Permanent academic-grade archival of every open-source release.
What Joseph builds + writes about.
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