David Dolphin is a CEO, founder and software engineer with 13 years building production data and telecom systems across startups and Airbnb. He currently leads Banshee, where he architected a Rust-powered data platform using duckDB and AWS to optimize customer session analysis and perform high-throughput anomaly detection. At Airbnb he built Automated Canary Analysis and observability tooling and previously designed global voice infrastructure that handled 20M calls with 99.999% uptime, blending low-level systems work with product reliability. A two-time founder (PhoneSys was part of Y Combinator S11) who has also led customer success, training and accounting functions, he brings an unusual mix of engineering rigor, operational empathy and finance-savvy to product and platform decisions.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Finance, General, Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Finance, General at University of Missouri-Kansas City
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