About

About

Wall Street origins. Nashville roots. Building at the intersection of engineering, product, and AI.

The Short Version

Adam Thede

I’m Adam Thede — founder of Thede Technologies, a software company based in Nashville, Tennessee. I build AI-native products and operate a portfolio of software across life-tracking, knowledge management, and personal data infrastructure. The flagship is the Tractor & Silo ecosystem — a suite of privacy-first, personal life-tracking applications across web, iOS, and macOS — a project I’ve been working on since 2016.

The Full Story

I started on Wall Street. Spent years at Lehman Brothers managing emerging markets fixed income repurchase agreement trading operations in New York — generating substantial revenue, learning how markets work, and understanding what it means to operate in high-stakes, high-velocity environments.

Then I made a deliberate shift to technology. Graduated from Nashville Software School, joined Vanderbilt University Medical Center to build web applications, and discovered that building software scratched the same itch that trading did — pattern recognition, calculated risk, and the rush of shipping something real.

I moved into engineering leadership at Senior Market Advisors, co-leading a small engineering team and designing the core platform. Today I serve as VP of Engineering at a Nashville tech company, where I’m responsible for the full technical stack — DevOps, infrastructure, feature development, and product discovery.

Over the past two years, I’ve also rebuilt my personal development workflow around AI-augmented practices. This has allowed me to build and maintain the entire Silo ecosystem on my own time — a full-stack web application, an iOS app, and a macOS desktop app — as a solo developer.

I founded Thede Technologies to back the products I’m building — the Tractor & Silo ecosystem. I write about what I’ve learned building AI-native products and orchestrating AI agents across an entire product portfolio.

Technical Stack

Backend
Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, Sidekiq
Mobile
Swift, SwiftUI, GRDB
Frontend
Tailwind CSS, Stimulus, Turbo, Alpine.js
Infrastructure
Heroku, AWS, GCP, Docker
AI Tooling
Claude Code, OpenAI, Ollama
Data
JSONB, REST APIs, Webhooks, ETL

Elsewhere