Erik Dunteman is an AI infrastructure engineer and founder who co-founded Banana.dev, a serverless GPU platform that served production inference workloads for more than 3,000 AI teams, and later founded Butter, a sandbox infrastructure company acquired by Modal. Erik Dunteman's Twitter Score is 33 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #29,293 (top 10%) among 493,668 tracked accounts.
Erik Dunteman co-founded Banana.dev as a serverless GPU platform before stepping away from the project in mid-2024. He then founded Butter, which participated in Y Combinator's Winter 2025 batch and focused on embedded sandbox infrastructure for AI agents. At Butter, his team built bVisor, a virtual Linux kernel written from scratch in Zig designed for lightweight, ephemeral sandboxes. Modal announced the acquisition of Butter in April 2026, after which Dunteman joined Modal's Sandbox team to work on agent systems.
Erik Dunteman has published 7,499 posts on the platform and has 9,229 followers as of October 2026. He has been mentioned by 7 accounts, with 7 total mentions.
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