David Mytton
CEO of Arcjet
United States
Overview
Work Experience
CEO
2023 - Current
Helping developers protect their apps.
Arcjet helps developers protect their apps in just a few lines of code.
Raised $3,600,000.00 from Max Stoiber, Michael Stoppelman, Harry Marr, Geoff Belknap, Thomas Mann, Nicolas Dessaigne, Theo Browne, Nitay Joffe, Shane Curran and Jonathan Siegel.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Edge computing, edge delivery, & edge security solutions, enabling businesses to build, accelerate, & protect latency-sensitive workloads.
Raised $396,000,000.00 from Sweetwater Capital Partners, Juniper Networks, Cox Communications and David Mytton.
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.
Education
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
2022 - 2027
Master of Science - MS
2019 - 2020
LLB
2007 - 2010