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Dexter Horthy

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Dexter Horthy

founder @ humanlayer - multiplayer software factory control plane

Co-founderHumanLayer logoHumanLayer· Fall 2024🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
in LinkedIn𝕏 @dexhorthy
2024Co-founder· HumanLayer (YC F24)
Founder · since 2023
Company
HumanLayer (YC F24)
Role
CEO and Co-Founder
current
Stage
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Raised
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no public source
Based
San Francisco, California, United States
current
Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role
Source: LinkedIn work history
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HumanLayer

Ship 2-3x faster without AI slopping up your codebase

Fall 2024

Experience

Career

  • HumanLayer (YC F24) logo

    HumanLayer (YC F24)

    Co-founder

    CEO and Co-Founder · San Francisco, California, United States · 2024 – Present

    2024
  • Prefect logo

    Prefect

    Advisor · 2021 – Present

    2021
  • metalytics.dev logo

    metalytics.dev

    Co-founder

    CEO and Co-Founder · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 2023 – 2024

    2023
  • Replicated logo

    Replicated

    Senior Product Manager / Advisor to the CEO · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 2022 – 2023

    2022
  • Replicated logo

    Replicated

    Vice President, Solutions Engineering and Customer Success · 2020 – 2022

    2020
  • Replicated logo

    Replicated

    FDE · Culver City, California · 2018 – 2020

    2018
  • Replicated logo

    Replicated

    Core Engineer · 2017 – 2018

    2017
  • Aspiration.com logo

    Aspiration.com

    Platform Engineering Lead · Marina Del Rey, California · 2016 – 2017

    2016
  • Aspiration.com logo

    Aspiration.com

    Backend Engineer · Greater Los Angeles Area · 2016

    2016
  • Sprout Social, Inc. logo

    Sprout Social, Inc.

    Software Engineer -- API/Platform · Chicago, IL · 2013 – 2016

    2013
  • University of Chicago logo

    University of Chicago

    Technical Office Assistant · 2012 – 2013

    2012

  • Determined to Succeed

    Academic Tutor · Greater Los Angeles Area · 2008 – 2009

    2008
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory logo

    Jet Propulsion Laboratory

    Summer Intern · Greater Los Angeles Area · 2008

    2008

Bio

Coined the term Context Engineering in April 2025, ranting about coding agents ever since. Started coding in high school at NASA JPL. Spent 7 years as Engineer, SE, PM, Exec at Replicated, a series C dev tools startup. I worked on container orchestrators, helped teams like Hashicorp, DataStax, and H2O.ai deliver and ship their on-prem k8s products.