Steve Denton

Optro | Founding CTO @ FairNow.ai (Acquired by Optro/AuditBoard)

Austin, Texas, United States

About

Experience

  • Senior Director of Engineering, AI Governance at Optro
    Oct 2025 - Present · 9 mos

  • Chief Technology Officer at FairNow
    Jul 2023 - Oct 2025 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    Acquired by Optro (formerly AuditBoard) in <2.5 years As Founding CTO/Engineer, I built and shipped the MVP from scratch, then led engineering to scale FairNow.ai into a full AI governance and compliance platform, including prototyping agentic AI infrastructure, from 0→1 to acquisition.

  • CTO, Co-founder at Fuzy.AI
    Jun 2021 - Jun 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    B2B SaaS for product-led teams | VC backed | Built Data/ML Platform

  • CTO, Co-founder at Stealth Mode AI SaaS Startup
    May 2020 - Jun 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos

    SaaS | Predictive Analytics | ETL | AI Factory | Successful Pre-Seed Round

  • VP of Engineering at ShipStation
    Jun 2018 - Apr 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos

    SaaS | eCommerce | Integrations | NASDAQ:STMP