David Mytton

David Mytton is Co-founder of Console, launching in early-2021 to provide the best tools for developers.

From 2009-2018, David was Co-founder at Server Density, a London-based SaaS infrastructure monitoring startup.

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 edge computing business, StackPath. As part of the acquisition, 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. David left StackPath in Dec 2019.

David also founded the HumanOps community in London, San Francisco, and New York with Facebook, Financial Times, Spotify, Yelp and PagerDuty aimed at discussing how to deal with the human side of system operations: on-call, incident response, stress, fatigue, post-mortems and human process design.

Having taken funding from Seedcamp in 2009 (when Server Density was called Boxed Ice), David is an Expert in Residence (unpaid) advising 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. Seedcamp has 360+ companies across 5 funds worth over $4bn.

David concluded an Environmental Technology MSc at Imperial College London in Sept 2020, with a particular interest in energy technology. He continues to research sustainable computing at Uptime Institute.

• Co-founder, Console
  November 2020 – Present
  The best tools for developers.
• Research Affiliate, Uptime Institute
  December 2020 – Present
  Researching sustainable computing.
• Expert in Residence, Seedcamp
  March 2018 – Present
  Advising Seedcamp portfolio companies on CTO-type issues. Seedcamp funded Server Density in 2009. Unpaid position.

Past

• VP, Product Engineering, StackPath
  May 2018 – December 2019
  Edge computing for +1 million customers with $200m revenue. Joined as part of the Server Density acquisition.
• CEO & Co-founder, Server Density
  April 2009 – May 2018
  SaaS infrastructure monitoring. Acquired by Stackpath, May 2018.
• Board Member, SalesSeek
  July 2012 – June 2018
  CRM and marketing SaaS.
• Senior Technical Strategist, eConversions
  December 2006 – September 2009
  1 part affiliate / search marketing; 1 part high profile consumer websites.
• CEO, Olate
  April 2004 – December 2007
  Software development, contracting and web hosting. My first company.

Volunteering

• Governor, Chelsea Community Hospital School
  Feb 2018 – Oct 2020
  Safeguarding Governor from Oct 2018; Vice-Chair from Oct 2019; Interim-Chair from May 2020 – Oct 2020.
• Ethics Committee Lay Member, University of Birmingham
  Jan 2018 – Sep 2020
• Mentor, Virgin Startup
  Sep 2017 – May 2018
• Mentor, Clement James Centre
  Sep 2018 – Aug 2019
• Parliamentary and policy update writer, Open Rights Group
  2013