About Tony Guntharp

I'm a technology leader, maker, and proud Texan with a passion for building reliable systems at scale and creating things that matter.

Current Role

Senior Director/Distinguished Engineer (IaaS) at GEICO (2023 – Present)

Leading the transformation of GEICO's technical organization from traditional IT to a modern engineering-focused culture. Managing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions that enable engineering teams to build and deploy at scale.

DamageLabs

Founder of DamageLabs (2025 – Present)

Building privacy-first, self-hosted software for collectors and niche hobbies. What started as scratching my own itch turned into a portfolio of purpose-built tools:

• UAS-Log — FAA-compliant drone flight logging with RBAC and multi-tenant orgs
• Armory Core — Firearms inventory management
• Whiskey Canon — Whiskey collection management
• CLAHub — Contributor License Agreement management for GitHub
• Paper Trail Manager — Rails engine for PaperTrail audit logs (v1.0)

Professional Journey

Apple (2020 – 2023)

Site Reliability Manager, iCloud Platform

• Led the SRE team for CloudKit, Apple's cloud database service
• Managed Content SRE and Workflows SRE teams within the iCloud Platform Organization
• Previously worked on improving Siri reliability

Google (2014 – 2020)

Site Reliability Manager, Carrier Services

• Managed the Carrier-SRE-MTV team as part of Google's SRE organization
• Focused on Rich Communication Services (RCS) and SMS aggregation
• Built and scaled mobile messaging infrastructure

Earlier Career

Co-Founder of SourceForge.net — one of the pioneering platforms for open source collaboration, hosting millions of projects before GitHub existed.

Military Service

US Army Airborne — Combat Veteran
10 years serving in airborne operations. The discipline and leadership from military service shaped everything that came after.

Open Source

Core Developer/Contributor:

• CLAHub — CLA management platform (revived & rewritten)
• Paper Trail Manager — Rails engine for audit logs (maintained since 2012)
• UAS-Log — Drone flight logging platform
• OpenROV — Open source underwater robotics
• Kandan — Open source chat application
• Titanium (Appcelerator) — Cross-platform mobile development

Advisor/Investor:

• Appgyver — No-code development platform (Acquired by SAP)
• Flutter Wireless — Wireless technology solutions

Making & Creating

• Drones — FAA Part 107 certified pilot, commercial and recreational
• 3D Printing — Active on Printables
• Software — Building tools that solve real problems
• Hardware — Robotics, home automation, embedded systems

Personal

• Conservation & Hunting — Ethical hunting and habitat preservation
• Whiskey & Craft Beer — Collector and enthusiast
• Sports Cards — Modern era collector and market analyst
• Golf — Garmin-powered data-driven improvement

Life Between Two States

Splitting time between Bandera, Texas (Hill Country) and Half Moon Bay, California (Bay Area coast). The best of both worlds.

Connect

GitHub · X/Twitter · DamageLabs

"Build things that matter. Share what you learn. Leave it better than you found it."