David Sutherland
Founder at ShipThis
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid 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
Judd
Stackoverflow
6,487reputation
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122answers
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javascript
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facebook
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redux
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Github Skills (73)
react-leaflet10
immutability10
redux10
react-leaflet-draw10
google-play10
game-engine9
javascript9
3d9
game-development9
facebook9
command-line9
visjs9
android-studio9
cli8
godot8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
shipth-is/cli
Apr 2025 - Jul 2026
CLI to build and publish Godot games to the App Store and Google Play - no Xcode or Android Studio required.
Contributions:11 reviews, 79 PRs, 210 pushes in 1 year 3 months
android-studiocligodotgoogle-playxcode
madebydavid/WordpressSkeleton
Nov 2013 - Apr 2016
Contributions:22 commits, 1 push, 1 tag in 2 years 5 months
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