David Michael
Business Owner at Stealth
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorDavid Michael is a technology-focused business owner and sales leader with nearly two decades of hands-on experience spanning development, sysops, solutions architecture, and go-to-market leadership. He played a pivotal role at GoGrid—building and leading solutions architecture and sales teams that produced over 35% of recurring revenue and helped secure the company’s largest deals before its acquisition. More recently he served as a Sr. Account Manager for ISV sales at AWS and now runs a local service business from San Francisco while maintaining active developer chops as a PHP/WordPress and Swift contributor. Comfortable collaborating with C-suite executives and technical leadership alike, he blends deep operational credibility (Linux, networking, HA architectures) with a knack for productizing technical services to win enterprise customers. An active open-source contributor, he has improved core WordPress commerce tooling by enhancing Easy Digital Downloads’ admin, export, and payment-tracking features—a signal of his ongoing commitment to shipping practical technical improvements.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (7)
plugin-development10
wordpress10
php10
ecommerce10
ed2551910
javascript8
mysql6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
awesomemotive/easy-digital-downloads
Sep 2017 - Jun 2022
Sell digital downloads through WordPress
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 44 commits, 43 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:David contributed to the Easy Digital Downloads plugin by addressing various issues and adding new features. Their work includes fixing a missing selector in JavaScript, updating PHP functions to include parameters, adding United Kingdom states to the country list, and adding a function to retrieve state names. They also made several improvements to the admin interface and export functionality, integrating IP address information for payment details.
wordpresseddphpecommercestripe
arraypress/wp-s3-browser
May 2025 - May 2026
Contributions:176 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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