About me
Dex is CEO and co-founder at HumanLayer, building an agentic IDE and collaboration platform that helps teams solve hard problems in complex codebases without devolving into slop. Dex coined the term context engineering in April 2025, has keynoted two AI Engineer conferences, and his practical, no-hype talks on agentic coding have over 1 million views on YouTube. Dex built lunar exploration tooling for NASA researchers in high school, and spent 10+ years in the Kubernetes/Infra space before getting into AI.
