Builder. Entrepreneur. Technologist.

Scott Rocca

Pittsburgh-area builder. I run a small handful of ventures and write occasionally about what I'm working on. Everything I ship is designed, coded, or operated personally.

I grew up around Pittsburgh, took the long way through telecom and operations, and ended up running my own ventures because I wanted full control of the stack. The thread across all of them is the same: build the thing yourself, host it yourself, answer the phone yourself.

This site (thescottrocca.com) is the personal-brand hub. The ventures below are where the work actually ships.

Ventures

Bright Presence Digital

Web Design, Development, Hosting

A solo studio that builds custom websites and runs them on a private server. Medical offices, municipalities, private schools, and small businesses across the Pittsburgh region. Every pixel from scratch, every site hosted on infrastructure I own.

brightpresencedigital.com

Bridgeville Bark and Stroll

Local Dog Walking, Pet Care

A South Hills dog walking and pet care service. BBB A-rated. Custom client portal, walker app, and visit tracking, all built and operated from scratch. Started as a side venture, became a real local business.

barkstroll.com

A few additional projects exist under separate brands, including advisory and consulting work in unified communications. Those operate on their own and aren't promoted from this page.

The basics

Based

Bridgeville, PA

Region

Greater Pittsburgh

Stack

Node.js, SQLite, vanilla JS

Hosting

Private server, owned

Writing

Articles live at thescottrocca.com/articles. New pieces drop roughly every four weeks. Topics rotate across web development, dog walking, phone systems, and running a small business in Pittsburgh.