Computer Engineer & Founder · New York, NY
Engineering for impact on every stage.
Dylan Fashbaugh is a New York computer engineer and the founder of Smooth Technology and Corta Labs. He builds electronics, software, computer vision and AI systems for enterprise telehealth and medical devices, optics, stage-hardened live production and experiential design.
Stage-hardened hardware and software
Wireless LED costumes and show control that run every night on stadium tours.
AI systems integration
Getting AI models into real products, devices and clinical software, and making them dependable.
Computer vision
Image processing, autofocus and 3D topography for inspection optics, and camera-calibrated LED mapping.
Experiential design
Interactive installations, museum pieces and brand experiences built from light, hardware and code.
Telehealth & medical
Enterprise telehealth platforms and connected health devices, including AI health products.
Companies
What I run
Founder, VP of Software Engineering
A creative engineering studio for engineering, electronics, experiential design and software. Smooth builds live production systems, immersive installations and games for artists and brands including Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Google, Meta, Riot Games and MoMA.
Founder
Forward-deployed engineering. Corta Labs embeds senior engineers with major clients to design, build and ship alongside their teams, and is currently deployed with several high-profile clients ranging from legal services to camera systems.
Selected work
Things I’ve Built
Lady Gaga: MTV VMAs 2020
A protective, sound-reactive light-up mask Lady Gaga could sing live in for her mid-pandemic VMAs performance. Fans built their own copies within days.
Childish Gambino: The New World Tour
Radio-controlled wearable lighting and truss-spanning LED displays for an arena tour, running reliably in venues saturated with RF.
Taylor Swift: 1989 World Tour
Taylor Swift’s LED dress and 12 dancer suits, each wirelessly controlled from the lighting desk. The dress now lives in the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Doritos Silent: Crunch Cancellation
An AI noise-cancelling app that removes chip crunches from a gamer’s mic in real time, trained on more than 5,000 crunch recordings.
Meta Quest Day
Working, production-quality add-on devices for the Meta Quest 2, taken from concept to finished hardware in eight weeks for an award-winning campaign.
Audible Story House
The full hardware and software system behind Audible’s “bookless bookstore”: 1,000+ titles on RFID/NFC tiles, custom illuminated readers, and a month of nonstop public use.
Katy Perry: Witness and Lifetimes Tours
Two world tours: a wireless LED “video bra” the touring light director called the most reliable system on tour, then wireless props and set pieces for The Lifetimes Tour.
Billy Porter: Grammy Awards
“The hat that inspired a thousand memes”: a radio-controlled mechanical hat for Billy Porter’s 2020 Grammys look, now on permanent display at Madame Tussauds.
Coca-Cola: Security Can
A production run of 200 Coke Zero cans with hidden, motion-triggered cameras that streamed live to a screen in the case, for a global influencer campaign.
Selected clients
Who I’ve built for
- Taylor Swift
- Lady Gaga
- Katy Perry
- Janelle Monáe
- Japanese Breakfast
- Nicki Minaj
- Childish Gambino
- Olivia Rodrigo
- Mariah Carey
- Paris Hilton
- Billy Porter
- Meta
- Intel
- Coinbase
- Amazon
- Riot Games
- MoMA
- Marvel
- Red Bull
- Coca-Cola
- Chanel
- Lexus
- PepsiCo
- Cortina Health
- Nanotronics Health
- and many more
Plus several stealth mode AI, Healthcare, and Device Startups.
About
Engineer first
I am a full stack computer engineer with experience at every level of programming, system design and architecture, from electronic hardware design, firmware and motion control up to cloud software.
I lead engineering teams and I care about customer success from an engineering mindset: the system has to work on the night, in the hospital, or on the arcade floor.
There’s never enough time, so I engineer for impact: find what matters most, build that first, then take care of the rest.
B.S. Computer Engineering, The University of Akron, 2014
Contact
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