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David Mytton

Building arcjet.com. Writing console.dev devtools newsletter. david@arcjet.com

United States

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  • Min Investment:

    $5,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $50,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $25,000.00

Work Experience

2023

  • CEO

    2023

    Helping developers protect their apps.

2021

  • Co-Founder

    2021

    console.dev is a weekly newsletter for experienced developers (>26k subscribers) to help them find the best tools. It is read by developers from all industries and sectors, with 80% of subscribers having at least 5 years coding experience. The podcast has >13k listeners and we have worked with companies like Ably, Airplane, Incident.io, Retool, Semgrep (r2c), Swimm, Teleport, and WorkOS as sponsors to reach our audience.

2018 - 2023

  • Expert in Residence

    2018 - 2023

    Having taken funding from Seedcamp in 2009, David advised their portfolio companies with CTO-type issues ranging from finding the first engineering hire and scaling processes for product development to creating developer communities and building high availability cloud systems.

2020 - 2021

  • Research Affiliate

    2020 - 2021

    Member of the data center environmental sustainability research team contracted to write reports and speak at (private) member briefings. Published a report on buying renewable energy and presented at multiple industry conferences.

2018 - 2019

  • VP, Product Engineering

    2018 - 2019

    As part of the acquisition of his company, Server Density - https://blog.stackpath.com/server-density-joins-stackpath - David joined an organisation of 300+ people to lead Product Engineering across a suite of security products generating $200m in revenue from over 1 million customers worldwide. StackPath protects +1 million customers from DDoS attacks, examines 40Tbps of network traffic in real time from custom hardware deployed into 45+ data centres worldwide and provides critical content delivery services for major Fortune 50 enterprises. David was responsible for the product launch of the StackPath edge computing platform.

2009 - 2018

  • Co-Founder, CEO

    2009 - 2018

    David Mytton was the Co-Founder and CEO at Server Density, a London-based SaaS infrastructure monitoring startup founded in 2009. David built the original version of Server Density, including the open source monitoring agent and custom time series database used by 700+ customers to manage mission critical IT environments. He grew the company in the UK and US through bootstrapped revenue and subsequent VC funding through to exit in 2018 to a US cyber security business, StackPath.