Summary
David Sutherland is a technical founder and CTO with 25+ years of hands-on experience shipping products from zero to scale, currently building ShipThis to simplify App Store and Play Store publishing for Godot developers. He led Thursday from concept to 1M+ downloads and built its engineering org and AWS microservices platform, combining product-first thinking with deep infrastructure and CI/CD expertise. His stack fluency spans TypeScript, Node, React, React Native, Unity, Terraform and fastlane, and his open-source ShipThis CLI has attracted 250+ GitHub stars while remaining free for most solo devs. A serial startup CTO across proptech, edtech and fintech, he also co-founded Diverse Digital to bring coding clubs to underserved London kids, showing a long-term commitment to tech education. Notably, he designs end-to-end systems that bridge developer tooling and cloud build infrastructure to remove practical barriers for creators.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
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