# Dylan Farnsworth

> Dylan Farnsworth is a Burlington, Vermont software founder, engineer and product operator with more than 15 years of experience across SaaS, fintech, payments and marketing technology. He owns Winter Green Solutions, co-founded Boardwalk Marketing and previously held technical and product leadership roles at CoreChain Technologies, PaymentWorks, Sharp Action and Cogo Labs. His recent work centers on disciplined AI-assisted software development, including a production family-support platform built from first commit to closed beta in one month.

- **Role:** Owner of Winter Green Solutions; Co-founder and CTO of Boardwalk Marketing
- **Organizations:** Winter Green Solutions, Boardwalk Marketing, CoreChain Technologies, PaymentWorks, Sharp Action, Cogo Labs
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Innovative Product Leadership program, Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Advanced degrees in Oboe Performance, Florida State University
- **Known for:** Built more than 15 years of software experience across fintech, payments, marketing technology and SaaS., Co-founded Boardwalk Marketing and serves as its CTO., Took an AI-assisted application from first commit to active closed beta in one month as a solo developer.

## Career timeline

- **Earlier career** — Worked in web engineering at Cogo Labs, leading site and internal-tool development.
- **Later career** — Served as Director of Engineering at Sharp Action and held Director of Application Engineering and Head of Product roles at PaymentWorks.
- **Before 2023** — Served as Vice President of Engineering and Product Development at CoreChain Technologies.
- **2023** — Co-founded Boardwalk Marketing, an advertising technology company focused on traffic and offer optimization.
- **2026** — Through Winter Green Solutions, documented an AI-assisted workflow that took the Thistle family-support platform from first commit to active closed beta in one month.
- **2026** — Presented his production software and agent-development workflow to Burlington's ChatBTV community.

## Achievements

- Built more than 15 years of software experience across fintech, payments, marketing technology and SaaS.
- Co-founded Boardwalk Marketing and serves as its CTO.
- Took an AI-assisted application from first commit to active closed beta in one month as a solo developer.
- Produced a functional version of that application in roughly 10 to 12 hours across two days.
- Established a multi-stage AI review and testing workflow with four monitoring points before generated content reaches users.
- Led a public ChatBTV talk in Burlington on building production software with AI.

## Latest updates

- **2026-05** — Led a ChatBTV presentation in Burlington on building production software with AI and demonstrated the agent workflow used for Thistle.
- **2026-03** — Published a detailed case study of taking Thistle from proof of concept to a live closed beta in one month using an AI-driven development process.
- **2026-01** — Argued publicly that organizations should begin learning AI tools now, while the cost and tolerance for experimentation remain comparatively favorable.

## Links

- Website: https://www.dylanfarnsworth.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dfrnswrth

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Last updated: 2026-09-27