Hi, I’m Dalton.

A technical founder and systems engineer who got his start on the live stages of New England.

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Dalton Letorney

From the stage to the stack

I grew up on the live stages of New England, mixing sound and singing, then moved into the Los Angeles tech scene. I have been working where entertainment meets software ever since, and now I do it from San Francisco.

Through DLTN Innovations, my consultancy, I build software for medium and large organizations in entertainment and tech. The job is finding the bottleneck that holds a team back and replacing it with a system, so people spend their time moving the business forward instead of on busywork.

Day to day I am a technical founder and full-stack systems engineer: AI-driven platforms, high-performance APIs and event-driven architecture, with real-time data, caching and API performance tuned for products people use all day. I care as much about the product thinking as the architecture.

Dalton standing in the desert under a sky of clouds

What I build

Products for customers, tools for the teams behind them, and the platforms they run on.

Products

  • Web apps
  • Landing pages
  • iOS and Android apps
  • Booking systems
  • Payment integrations
  • AI features

Internal tools

  • Internal dashboards
  • Custom CRM systems
  • Marketing operations automation
  • Workflow automation
  • Lead scraping
  • Custom scripts
  • AI integration

Platforms

  • AWS, Vercel, Render and DigitalOcean
  • OpenAI, REST APIs and web scraping
  • Authentication and OAuth
  • Stripe, Square and payment processors
  • Twilio, SMS, transactional email and drip campaigns
  • Retool and Appsmith

Languages and frameworks

  • React
  • React Native
  • Expo
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • HTML and CSS
  • Tailwind
  • Node.js
  • Express
  • Python
  • Postgres
  • Supabase
  • MongoDB
  • SQL

Talks

I have shared stages with industry executives, speaking on:

  • Marketing strategy in the entertainment industry
  • Using new technology to make art
  • Building a career from an arts background
  • DataCon LA
  • NFT Expoverse
  • South by Southwest

The path so far

Eleven years, from mixing live shows to growth at Hulu to a company of my own.

  1. 2024 to now

    Chefari

    Founder and CEO

    A food intelligence platform that personalizes nutrition for specific dietary needs.

  2. 2023 to 2024

    Tennis IQ

    Fractional CTO, lead engineer

    An AI tennis and mindset coach, shipped to the App Store.

  3. 2022 to 2024

    Hulu

    Technical growth manager

    Exit-intent and landing page experiments, buy flows, and a QR generator used across Disney.

  4. 2022

    blockparty

    Head of product

    NFT ticketing for creators, featured in MarketWatch and Fox News. Keynotes on NFT marketing.

  5. 2021

    Step

    Technical growth operations

    A user-generated content pipeline on Braze and a tracker that cut data collection time by 80%.

  6. 2020 to 2021

    USC Marshall

    Data engineer, financial accounting

    Python that automated collection of more than 500,000 annual reports for research.

  7. 2019 to 2022

    Break A Leg Theater Works

    Full-stack systems engineer

    A CRM wired to Stripe, a live-streaming platform for shows during COVID-19, and Broadway bookings.

  8. 2015 to 2019

    South Shore Conservatory

    Assistant audio engineer

    Live mixing, multitrack recording and lighting for every performance.

Schools and honors

Education

  • University of Southern CaliforniaBS, Business Administration
  • Boston CollegeBA, Computer Science
  • Milton AcademyHigh school diploma

Honors

  • Most Innovative Experiment of 2023, Disney Expy Awards
  • Donald Cameron Duncan Prize for Mathematics
  • Harrison Otis Apthorp Music Prize
  • Best Original Song
  • First place vocalist, William P. Söderberg Voice Competition