David Thyresson
General Partner at RedwoodJS
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Thyresson is a General Partner at Preston-Werner Ventures and a seasoned technology builder with 12 years of hands-on engineering and leadership across startups, developer platforms, and sports-data businesses. He led core development on RedwoodJS and continues as an advisor, contributing backend work around authentication and server-side tooling for a prominent open-source framework founded by GitHub's Tom Preston-Werner. David has also improved developer experience and auth flows for well-known projects like Supabase and supabase/auth-js, and implemented robust GraphQL plugins and Redis-backed caching in GraphQL Hive’s Envelop ecosystem. His background spans founding and scaling multiple ventures—Stattleship, Spogo, Entessa—through exits and acquisitions, and leadership roles from CTO to architect. Based in Boston, he blends product-minded investing with developer empathy, often focusing on auth, caching, and reliable server-side patterns that accelerate product-market fit. Outside of work he brings creative, analog interests—street art, synths, and hockey—that inform his design-forward approach to technology.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., English, B.A., English at Middlebury CollegePhillips Academy
Github Skills (32)
authorizations10
javascript10
back-end-development10
authentication10
user-authentication10
typescript10
integrations10
wpgraphql10
plugin10
user-management10
api10
redwoodjs10
wordpress-graphql10
authorization10
typescript-types10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
supabase/auth-js
Feb 2021 - Jun 2022
An isomorphic Javascript library for Supabase Auth.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 29 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:David contributed to the Supabase Auth JavaScript library by adding Facebook as a supported provider. They updated the sign-up process to handle the same email being used twice. Additionally, they made TypeScript updates and added ESLint checks to maintain code quality. The user also removed deprecated data for session.
isomorphic-javascriptjavascript-libraryauthorizationuser-managementsupabase
redwoodjs/redwood
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
The App Framework for Startups
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:696 reviews, 215 commits, 397 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:David's commits primarily involve modifications to the API side of the RedwoodJS framework, focusing on authentication and authorization logic. The contributions include refactoring and enhancing authentication-related code within the `api` package. They specifically focused on improving user authentication using various methods, including the implementation of a new cookie based auth middleware.
reactprismajamstackgraphqlapollo
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