Summary
Anthony Iacono is a founding Head of Engineering with 13 years of hands-on experience building products, platforms, and developer tooling from startup to scale. Based in Lynchburg, VA, he combines deep engineering practice (early plugin and Source Engine work) with executive leadership — previously serving as CTO, CEO, and Chief Product Officer while launching novel products like WordPatch. At WillowTree he progressed through roles from Software Engineer to Staff Engineer, shipping platform-level systems and mentoring teams, and now leads engineering strategy at Sigma Squared. He has a long history of shipping extensible plugins, building custom frameworks for the LAMP stack, and safeguarding ecosystems as a moderator of plugin contributions — a mix of builder, reviewer, and operator that keeps both product velocity and quality high.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at California State University, Long Beach
3.6, 3.6 at Palos Verdes High School