Portrait of Daniel Dayto

Daniel Dayto

I turn complex operations into scalable, revenue-producing systems.

Co-founder and technical lead at Playmaker. I work across product, engineering, AI, and operations to take ambiguous problems from customer discovery through production deployment, repeatable delivery, and measurable revenue impact.

How I Work

The forward-deployed delivery loop

Every engagement follows the same loop: embed with the team that owns the workflow, turn their operation into a system, ship it to production, and keep improving the number that matters.

  1. Discover

    Embed with customer teams, map workflows, identify constraints, and define success metrics.

    CSR interviews · dispatch shadowing · SOP extraction

  2. Design

    Translate operational requirements into system architecture, agent behavior, integrations, and implementation plans.

    Solution architecture · agent design · data models

  3. Integrate

    Connect AI systems to telephony, CRMs, dispatch systems, scheduling platforms, APIs, and webhooks.

    Twilio · ServiceTitan · FieldRoutes · REST · webhooks

  4. Deploy

    Ship production systems using AWS, Docker, CI/CD, multi-tenant infrastructure, and controlled rollout processes.

    AWS · Docker · GitHub Actions · multi-tenant rollout

  5. Operationalize

    Measure the outcome, remove recurring failure modes, document the operating model, and leave behind a system the team can run and extend.

    Outcome tracking · runbooks · repeatable onboarding

Operating Leverage

What I leave behind

Implementations end; systems and processes keep working. The durable output of my work is infrastructure other people run.

01

Repeatable delivery

At WOLF, releases stopped depending on specific engineers: automated builds, tests, code signing, and store delivery across 50+ branded apps meant anyone on the team could ship — and the team did, continuously.

The pipeline

02

Faster execution

Replacing engineer-dependent deployment steps with a deterministic CI/CD process raised release velocity by 35% — a before-and-after that is documented, not remembered.

Before and after

03

Scalable onboarding

At Playmaker, business rules, service areas, and integrations live in per-customer configuration — launching a new customer is configuration work, not a product fork.

The deployment model

Capabilities

Technical depth across the full deployment path

Production AI

  • Conversational AI
  • RAG
  • LLM orchestration
  • Agentic workflows
  • OpenAI
  • ElevenLabs
  • Twilio

Platforms & Integrations

  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • Node.js
  • REST APIs
  • Webhooks
  • CRM & dispatch integrations
  • Multi-tenant architecture
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis

Product & Delivery

  • Customer discovery
  • React / Next.js / TypeScript
  • React Native
  • Operational dashboards
  • AWS
  • Docker
  • GitHub Actions
  • CI/CD
Portrait of Daniel Dayto

About

I work at the boundary between complex systems and real operations

Robotics data tooling, enterprise travel integrations, a 50-app multi-tenant platform, and now production AI for service businesses — the common thread is taking operationally messy problems and turning them into systems that hold up. Co-founder and technical lead at Playmaker.

More about how I work

Contact

Deploying AI into a real operation?

Hiring for a senior role

Senior AI, Forward Deployed Engineering, product engineering, platform, and technical leadership roles.

Need a problem solved

Selected contracting and advisory work involving production AI deployments, integration builds, platform architecture and audits, and technically difficult product initiatives.

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Run a home-service business and want AI answering your phones? That's Playmaker.