👋 Hi there, my name is Michael and I'm from the UK but now live in beautiful Vienna, Austria.

I'm working full-time on Vendure, which is an open-source headless e-commerce framework built on Node.js using TypeScript and GraphQL. My goal with Vendure is to create a tool which allows developers to create incredible e-commerce applications and have fun whilst doing it! Developer experience is a top priority for me. I've seen and heard (and lived) some horror stories about how hard it has traditionally been to build highly custom e-commerce apps, and I aim to bring a pragmatic, performant and productive approach to this problem.

I really believe in the open source model of product development. Both as a maintainer and a user. The uncountable hours saved by the OSS software I use every day. The feedback, bug reports, battle-testing and contributions made by others to my projects. The world would be immeasurably poorer without all of us taking part in the grand scheme.

I also try to be as active as I can in the Vendure community - you can reach me via Slack, email or Twitter. Sponsorship of any amount means that I have more time to dedicate to community activities - answering questions, helping with PRs, producing educational material like tutorials or video courses.

If Vendure has made your life easier, if it has saved you time, if it has helped you realize your business goals, if you just want to show your support - then please consider sponsoring!

Note: A significant proportion of sponsorships will be paid forward to the projects that Vendure depends on: see our list of sponsored projects on GitHub Sponsors and Open Collective.