Summary
Dennis Norton is a founder and seasoned technology leader with 11 years of engineering experience, currently building startups from Seoul focused on AI-powered travel and health products. He has served as CTO and VP of Engineering, launching a mobile app that exceeded 100k installs and drove over $1M ARR, and he combines product instincts with hands-on expertise across web, mobile, backend, database, and DevOps. A Certified Scrum Master with a background in game development, he’s comfortable across cloud providers (Azure, GCP, AWS) and a broad stack including React, Node, MongoDB, Docker, Terraform and Libsodium for security. Dennis mentors junior engineers and interns, and is known for integrating third-party travel services and shipping practical, scalable solutions rather than academic prototypes. He moves fluidly between native and cross-platform mobile tech (React Native, Flutter, Kotlin, Swift) and low-level languages when needed, reflecting a rare blend of product-first leadership and deep implementation capability. Always open to partnerships, he prioritizes user-friendly, secure systems that leverage AI and data to simplify travel experiences.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at Washington Irving High School
Bachelors of Science, Game Development, Bachelors of Science, Game Development at Full Sail University
English, Korean