Cody Deluisio grew up in Western Pennsylvania and never really left. He got his first chicken at the Butler Fair at three years old, and somewhere between that moment and now, he built a career in telecommunications, started a registered Angus herd, moved to a 55-acre farm in Bell Township, PA, and began raising a family with his fiancée Hannah.
He doesn’t do any one thing. He does a lot of things, and he tries to do all of them well.
The Farm
Cody runs Stella Manor, a 55-acre regenerative farm in Bell Township, Pennsylvania. The operation includes a registered Black Angus breeding program through Deluisio Angus, focused on calm temperaments and top-percentile genetics. He also runs Regenerative Seed, which grew out of a belief that what you put in the ground matters as much as how you raise what comes out of it. And then there are the Silkies — a long-running breeding program through The Silkierie that started with a bird at a county fair and hasn’t stopped since.
Cody sells at local farmers markets, sharing what Stella Manor grows and raises directly with the community.
The Tech
Alongside the farm, Cody has spent his career in telecommunications and networking. He has worked extensively in hotel PBX systems, enterprise networking, and IT infrastructure — the kind of work that means being on-site when something breaks and knowing the difference between a misconfigured DHCP relay and a hardware failure at 2 AM.
He writes about the technical side of that work on his blog at deluisio.com — covering UniFi networking, telephony systems, cabling, and the role of AI in modern infrastructure.
How He Thinks About Both
There’s more overlap between farming and technology than most people expect. Both require long-term planning, precise execution, and the willingness to be physically present when things go wrong. Cody Deluisio applies the same mindset to a calving pen as he does to a network rack — show up, own it, and build for the long game.
Principles
Presence — Show up. Whether it’s a calving at 2 AM or a network outage at a hotel, being there is the job.
Accountability — If something goes wrong on the farm or on the network, it gets owned. No excuses.
Patience — Good cattle genetics take generations. Good networks take planning. Nothing worth building happens fast.
Honesty — Say what you mean. On the blog, in the pitches, and in person.
Hands On — Don’t manage from a desk. Pull calves, crimp cables, dig post holes.
Long Game — Every decision on the farm and in the career is about where to be in 10 years, not next week.
Connect
- Blog: deluisio.com — farming, networking, technology, and everything in between
- Deluisio Angus: deluisioangus.com
- Regenerative Seed: regenerativeseed.com
- The Silkierie: thesilkierie.com
- Stella Manor: stellamanor.com
- Instagram: @codydeluisio
- LinkedIn: Cody Deluisio
- YouTube: @codydeluisio