Dallin Bentley
| Dallin Bentley | |
| Occupation | Co-founder and CTO of Buster |
|---|---|
| Known for | Co-founding Buster, an AI platform for analytics engineering |
| Education | Brigham Young University (MS, Information Systems) |
Dallin Bentley is an American entrepreneur and software engineer who is the co-founder and chief technology officer (CTO) of Buster, an artificial intelligence platform designed for analytics engineering. Buster was part of Y Combinator's Winter 2024 batch and is based in Salt Lake City, Utah.[1]
Career
Before founding Buster, Bentley worked as a cloud security engineer. He subsequently founded Leftovers, a surplus food marketplace, which was later sold. Bentley holds a Master of Information Systems degree from Brigham Young University.[2]
Bentley co-founded Buster alongside Blake Rouse, who serves as the company's CEO. Buster describes itself as an AI agent platform built for analytics engineering. The platform provides data teams with AI agents that monitor data infrastructure, catch breaking changes, and assist in resolving issues automatically. Its functionality is oriented around dbt projects, helping keep them reliable, documented, and consistent. The platform operates across several domains including generative AI, data science, data engineering, data visualization, and databases.[3]
As described on the company's website, Buster functions as an "AI data engineer" that monitors a team's data stack, detects schema drift, identifies data type mismatches, assesses downstream impacts, generates schema tests, updates documentation, and opens pull requests — tasks that would otherwise require significant manual effort from data engineers. The company states that the platform saves data engineers "hundreds of hours every month."
In April 2025, Bentley discussed the development of generative AI data analytics agents in an interview with David Cochran, Dean of Business & Technology at Newman University. Topics covered included the experience of building a Y Combinator-backed startup, developing AI-driven workflows for data work, adapting to rapidly improving large language models and declining usage costs, and how data analytics roles are likely to change with advancing AI tools.
Buster's co-founder Blake Rouse was named to the Utah Founder 100 list in 2024, a recognition program for top founders in Utah as voted on by fellow founders. As of the available information, Buster employed four people.
References
- ↑ "Buster – Y Combinator". 'Y Combinator}'. Retrieved 2026-03-18.
- ↑ "Buster – Work at a Startup". 'Y Combinator (Work at a Startup)}'. Retrieved 2026-03-18.
- ↑ "Buster". 'Buster}'. Retrieved 2026-03-18.