About

Builder, operator, and accountable owner.

Fractional CTO and hands-on AI product engineer. I step across product, engineering, leadership, and delivery boundaries so capable teams ship meaningful AI work.

10+
Years Building
250K+
Monthly Users
200+
Platform Clients
Dante Kelly
Dante Kelly
Fractional CTO & AI Product Engineer

I help established product companies integrate AI into what they sell, automate how they operate, and help capable teams ship faster. The work sits at the intersection of product judgment, technical leadership, and hands-on engineering.

Ideal clients already have a real product, customers, and momentum. They do not need another presentation. They need an autonomous owner who can identify high-value opportunities, make sound decisions, integrate with the team, and personally drive implementation.

Experience

Work history

/01

Lead AI Solutions Engineer

Stealth AI Startup · Las Vegas, NV
Dec 2025 to Present

Hands-on AI product ownership for a goal achievement platform spanning personalized feeds, gamification, notifications, and cross-platform experiences.

  • Own engineering across core product surfaces including web experiences, personalized feed logic, notifications, rewards systems, and internal tooling
  • Ship production AI-backed workflows with React, TypeScript, Python, FastAPI, and AWS, integrating LLM capabilities into user-facing product experiences
  • Design and evolve multi-service architecture across frontend, backend APIs, infrastructure-as-code, and internal dashboards in five active codebases
  • Drive fast iteration while maintaining reliability and scalable system design in a lean team setting
/02

Director of Websites & SEO

Energize Group · Wilmington, NC
Oct 2023 to Dec 2025

Lead engineer and architect for SmartSites, a multi-tenant CMS and hosting system powering 200+ dental practice websites.

  • Architected the SmartSites platform (Astro, Sanity, Netlify, Vercel), creating a unified multi-tenant system that cut infra costs 75% and reduced deployment time 60%
  • Designed front-end architecture achieving 90+ Lighthouse scores and WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility across client sites
  • Built CI/CD pipelines, automated QA, and observability tooling that reduced production issues 35%
  • Integrated OpenAI and Anthropic LLMs into production workflows, automating content development for 50+ blogs and sites per month using internal RAG pipelines
  • Mentored developers and raised code quality, consistency, and velocity across the department
/03

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

HireDevs · Las Vegas, NV
May 2020 to Oct 2023

Lead full-stack engineer supporting product teams on high-performance systems and secure enterprise platforms.

  • Led development of a PCI-compliant audit platform used by major financial and insurance firms
  • Built high-performance React applications and reduced infrastructure costs through serverless modernization
  • Architected a scalable Go REST API with strong typing, zero-downtime deployments, and observability
  • Improved CheddarFlow user experience and core performance
  • Mentored junior developers in TypeScript, React, state management, and testing
/04

Full-Stack Developer

Independent · Remote
May 2016 to May 2020

Worked across startups and early-stage ventures to ship MVPs and production web applications.

  • Developed Wittit, a React Native mobile app with Firebase and real-time messaging
  • Built a React and headless Shopify eCommerce solution that sold out inventory quickly
  • Designed UI/UX systems and shipped full-stack MVPs that helped founders launch and validate concepts
Background

Judgment, depth, and working style

Where I create leverage

  • AI product integration into existing customer workflows
  • Operational automation with practical systems thinking
  • Engineering throughput through better workflows and foundations
  • Fractional technical leadership with hands-on delivery
  • Architecture, prioritization, and launch ownership

Technical depth

  • React, TypeScript, Next.js, Astro
  • Go, Node.js, Python, FastAPI
  • AWS, Cloudflare, Vercel, Netlify
  • OpenAI, Anthropic, LLM and RAG systems
  • Sanity CMS, PostgreSQL, Firebase

Ready to talk about leverage?

If your product is growing and AI is still stuck in experiments, let's discuss the highest-value path to production.