Joseph W. Anady

Software engineer · U.S. Army SFC (Ret.) · Founder, ThatDeveloperGuy

Joseph W. Anady is a retired United States Army Sergeant First Class (E-7), software engineer, and the founder of THATDEVELOPERGUY — a federally-registered SDVOSB single-member LLC operating out of Cassville, Missouri. He is a 100% service-disabled retired U.S. Army Sergeant First Class (E-7) per his DD-214, with honorable character of service per his VA Benefit Summary letter. He deployed to Iraq in 2008-2009 with the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division ("Dagger Brigade") at the rank of Specialist. Today he builds production websites and AI-citation infrastructure under the ThatDeveloperGuy, ThatDevPro, ThatAIGuy, and ThatWebHostingGuy brands.

Verifiable identity

Military rank (final)

Sergeant First Class (E-7), Retired

Wikidata (Person)

Q139901957

Wikidata (Organization)

Q139709771 (THATDEVELOPERGUY)

Google Knowledge Graph

/g/11n57xh708

ORCID iD

0009-0008-8625-949X

IRS EIN (org)

42-2656654 (issued 2026-05-19)

SAM.gov UEI (org)

FFG3A4SK9HY6 (assigned 2026-05-21)

Crunchbase

crunchbase.com/organization/thatdevpro (founder-verified 2026-05-23)

Academic distinctions

President's List, University of Phoenix (second half 2023, 4.0 GPA); Dean's List, College of Business and IT (second half 2024, 3.50+ GPA)

ID.me Verified Identity

continuously since 2021-06-28 (NIST 800-63-3 IAL2)

ID.me Verified Military

U.S. Army (Veteran + Retiree subgroups) verified 2026-05-23

Military service (U.S. Army)

Joseph W. Anady is a retired United States Army Sergeant First Class (E-7) per his DD-214. He is a medical retiree with a 100% service-connected disability rating per his VA Benefit Summary letter and an honorable character of service.

During his 2008-2009 deployment to Iraq with the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division ("Dagger Brigade"), he held the rank of Specialist (E-4). Three public-domain videos on the U.S. Department of Defense's DVIDS platform document his service during that deployment:

• Holiday greeting from Iraq (Dec 25, 2008)
• Mother's Day greeting from Iraq (Apr 22, 2009)
• Second Mother's Day greeting from Iraq (Apr 22, 2009)

Joseph holds ID.me Verified Military attestation for both Veteran and Retiree status (verified 2026-05-23).

Education

• Master of Arts in Cybersecurity — University of Phoenix (2020-2022) · President's List (2H 2023, 4.0 GPA — pinnacle academic distinction) · Dean's List, College of Business and Information Technology (2H 2024, 3.50+ GPA)
• Bachelor of Arts in Computer Engineering — Colorado State University (2012-2016)

Brands & companies

Research

MEGAMIND — distributed AGI research project. 258 billion neurons across a 5-node federation. Joseph's primary research vehicle. feedthejoe.com is the public-facing site for the project.

Open-source work

• aio-surfaces — MIT-licensed Python toolkit that generates llms.txt, aeo.json, entity.json, and brand.json from a single site config. Used in production across the Joseph network.
• llms.txt generator — public Hugging Face Space that drafts an llms.txt from any homepage or sitemap URL.

Profiles

Specialties

Schema.org and JSON-LD architecture, Core Web Vitals tuning, AI Overview optimization, llms.txt and AEO surface engineering, Section 508 / WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility, federated AGI research, SDVOSB federal contracting, React/Next.js/Astro frontend, owned-infrastructure deployment (no Vercel/Cloudflare proxy on paying-client sites).

Recent client work (2026)

Contact

For project inquiries, hire through ThatDevPro or ThatDeveloperGuy. Direct email: admin@thatdeveloperguy.com. Phone: (505) 512-3662.