Tony Sharon

The not-so-secret resume

The guy who debugs toolpaths and token streams in the same afternoon

Tony Sharon is an AI systems integrator, fabricator, and the entire staff of Pathfinder Prototyping. He came up through CNC machining and hardware development, crossed into AI infrastructure, and now ships software at a pace that makes people ask what the team size is. The team size is one.

14 plugins built 7 live on the Elgato Marketplace 170 commands on one deck 25,434 files named by local AI 400+ tracked agent hours 37 certificates in 11 months

Why people keep him around

He speaks both languages

Most AI people have never held a finished part. Most shop people have never shipped software. Tony has run Hurco and Haas machines, wired LED signage, poured resin, and also architected RAG pipelines and custom MCP servers. The gap between atoms and bits is his home address.

He finds the general shape

One Stream Deck plugin became fourteen because he noticed the engine underneath was specific to nothing. Build one thing well, extract the pattern, reuse it relentlessly. That is the whole method, and it works on plugins, pipelines, and businesses alike.

He ships like a department

Fourteen products, a company website, a business plan with SBA-ready financials, and a stack of commissioned physical builds. All from one bench, in months, documented in public. AI is the multiplier; the judgment steering it is the product.

Receipts

Every claim on this page has a marketplace listing, a repository, or a finished object you can hold. A sample:

Product line

Fourteen Stream Deck plugins for professional software: CAD, PCB design, laser control, 3D printing, and creative tools. Seven live on the Elgato Marketplace, more in review. One shared keystroke engine underneath, forked per application.

Agent tooling

A terminal orchestrator MCP server that gives AI agents a real PTY rendered in an Electron window: multi-tab, live output, interactive apps. Built because agents that can see what they broke fix it faster.

Local AI ops

25,434 photos renamed by a 4B vision model running on his own GPU, pipelined to 61 images a minute. Also: a 90-icon generation pipeline driving ComfyUI and FLUX over raw HTTP with zero pip dependencies, and a phone-automation MCP that cleaned 73 junk threads off a real handset.

Windows automation

A 15-tool UI-automation MCP server that lets agents drive any Windows desktop application: find elements, click, type, read state. The connective tissue for automating software that was never meant to be automated.

Fabrication

Commissioned signage and art builds: an eight-layer bike shop sign combining laser-cut backing, hand-painted detail, embedded resin-printed logo, and hidden LED neon. Five processes, one piece, sequenced so no layer ruins the one before it.

Business infrastructure

Pathfinder Prototyping itself: brand identity, SBA-ready financial models, compliance-aware security strategy, and the site you probably arrived from. Planned, built, and operated by the same person who writes the code.

The toolbox

Atoms · the shop side

  • CNC machining · Hurco, Haas
  • 3D printing · FDM and resin, multi-color
  • CAD · Plasticity, Fusion 360
  • Laser cutting · design through finish
  • Finishing · resin work, LED wiring, paint

Bits · the systems side

  • TypeScript / Node.js · production plugin code
  • Python · Google IT Automation certified
  • Claude Code + MCP · custom servers, agent workflows
  • RAG systems · multi-step document pipelines
  • Local model ops · Ollama, ComfyUI, ROCm

The paper trail

Thirty-seven certificates in eleven months, earned while shipping everything above. Average grade across the stack: 94 percent, with sixteen perfect scores. Grouped by what they make him dangerous at.

Agentic AI

Anthropic
  • AI Fundamentals with Claude · 2026
  • Introduction to Model Context Protocol · 2026
  • Claude Code in Action · 2026
  • Building with the Claude API · in progress, on the Claude Certified Architect path

Why it matters: certified on the exact stack his MCP servers and agent workflows run on, by the company that builds it. When he wires an agent into your tooling, the design patterns come from the source.

Generative AI engineering

IBM · 16 courses
  • Generative AI Engineering Professional Certificate · 2025
  • LLM Architecture & Data Prep
  • Language Modeling with Transformers
  • Fine-Tuning Transformers
  • Advanced Fine-Tuning for LLMs
  • NLP Foundational Models
  • AI Agents with RAG & LangChain
  • RAG Applications Project
  • Deep Learning with Keras
  • Machine Learning with Python
  • Gen AI Apps with Python
  • AI Apps with Python & Flask
  • Data Analysis with Python
  • Python for Data Science & AI
  • Prompt Engineering Basics
  • Gen AI Intro & Applications
  • Introduction to AI

Why it matters: sixteen courses deep, from transformer internals and fine-tuning to RAG agents. He knows what happens inside the model, which is the difference between a demo and a system.

Automation engineering

Google · 7 courses
  • IT Automation with Python Professional Certificate · 2026
  • Crash Course on Python
  • Python & the Operating System
  • Git and GitHub
  • Troubleshooting & Debugging
  • Config Management & the Cloud
  • Automating Real-World Tasks

Why it matters: scripting, version control, and systems troubleshooting at professional grade. This is the glue layer that turns clever one-off fixes into pipelines that run every day without him watching.

Rapid prototyping

Arizona State University · 7 courses
  • Rapid Prototyping and Tooling Specialization · 2026
  • Additive Manufacturing Processes
  • SLS & Metal Powder Bed Fusion
  • Material Jetting & Stereolithography
  • Material Extrusion
  • Prototyping Materials and Tooling
  • Electronics in Rapid Prototypes
  • Prototyping in Engineering Design

Why it matters: formal methodology across every major additive process, layered on years at the machine. Theory and calluses in the same hands means the first physical iteration is already a good one.

CNC machining

University at Buffalo
  • Intelligent Machining · 2026

Why it matters: the academic side of the trade he came up in. Toolpath thinking and process control to back the hands-on years on Hurco and Haas machines.

Security posture

Department of Defense
  • DoD Cyber Awareness Challenge

Why it matters: defense-grade security hygiene as the baseline. Client data, credentials, and internal systems get handled like they matter, because they do.

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