I build things
and ship them.
Full-stack developer making civic tech, AI-native products, and hyperlocal media. Real projects, real users, always iterating.
Democracy.cc
Democracy.cc is a Laravel + Vue.js civic tech app that makes Miami Beach city government meeting agendas more easily accessible to residents. It scrapes agenda data from PrimeGov and NovusAgenda, processes meeting videos with timestamp synchronization, identifies speakers, and generates AI-assisted summaries of agenda items. Users can track items and watch timestamped video clips of specific agenda discussions. The stack includes Inertia.js, Tailwind CSS, MySQL, Redis queues, video hosting, and Sentry for monitoring.
Miami Beach Civic Journal
A Laravel 11 civic journalism platform serving Miami Beach, FL. It features an EditorJS-based article management system with role-based access (admin, editor, journalist, subscriber), an AI-powered draft pipeline using Anthropic Claude, automated social media publishing to Facebook and Instagram via the Meta Graph API, and a public REST API powering a companion mobile app. The platform supports a full editorial workflow (draft → review → publish), PDF-to-article conversion, agenda browsing, Stripe-powered subscriptions, and scheduled video publishing with queue workers. Live at miamibeachjournal.org
PlanPal AI
a full-stack, multi-platform productivity planner that digitizes the experience of a physical planner pad. Built with Laravel 11, Alpine.js, and Tailwind on the web, Expo/React Native on mobile, and Tauri for a macOS menu bar app — all consuming a unified REST API. Features include AI-powered task management (Claude), two-way Google Calendar sync, Apple HealthKit integration, gamification, a Pomodoro-style focus system, and real-time updates via WebSockets. The app supports Stripe and RevenueCat subscriptions, offline-first mobile sync, and ships with 1,200+ tests across 66 Eloquent models and 150+ API routes.
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Democracy.cc: 480 Changes in One Month
August 2025 saw 480+ deployed changes to Democracy.cc -- a tagging system, voting results integration, blog analytics, and an 11x faster sitemap.
Unifying Web and Mobile Under One API
The web frontend had its own AJAX routes and controllers while mobile used a REST API. I eliminated 50% of controller code by making the web consume the same API.
Fixing Expo + React Native iOS Build Failures
Two blocking build issues: hundreds of modulemap errors from opening .xcodeproj instead of .xcworkspace, and an Axios crypto import that doesn't exist in React Native.
Daniel Ciraldo is a full-stack developer and builder based in Miami Beach. He runs Young Folks Consulting LLC, where he builds AI-native products, civic technology, and hyperlocal media infrastructure.
Before going full-time on software, Daniel served as Executive Director of the Miami Design Preservation League, helping preserve, promote, and protect the Art Deco Historic District. His background in civic systems, public accountability, and institutional complexity shapes everything he builds now.
He ships with AI, builds with Laravel, and believes the fastest way to validate an idea is to put working software in front of people.