Matthias Debernardini

Founder & Principal Engineer

Nashville Automation

Matthias is the founder and principal engineer at Nashville Automation, where he builds custom software and managed Claude-based agent systems for small businesses and consulting clients. He keeps always-on, self-directed agents running in production: a personal chief of staff, Telegram-connected assistants on EC2, and automated invoicing and ops pipelines. He is hands-on with self-hosted inference, running a local DeepSeek engine on Tailscale-first, freedom-tech-friendly infrastructure. Expect a practical session on how to actually run an agent: orchestration, guardrails, and what breaks when agents run unattended.