I'm a Dublin, Ohio-based software executive, developer, and consultant. I currently serve as the CTO of no-code mobile app builder Adalo, as well as the technical partner at Xenon Partners where among other things I lead the M&A technical due diligence practice and have spearheaded the integration of AI coding tools across the portfolio. Prior to this role I spent two years as CEO of Treehouse. Prior to joining Treehouse, I served three years as CTO of DreamFactory Software. My career has been devoted to helping companies build amazing software products. Learn more about me at WJGilmore.com.
I recently served as the Executive Chair for the O'Reilly Building Businesses with AI online conference, and in a surreal moment was interviewed for O'Reilly Radar about how I use AI to build SaaS products.
- IterOps
- ContributorIQ
- DependencyDesk
- SecurityBot.dev
- SpiesInDC
- 6DollarCRM
- NPSBeacon
- PhraseDuel
- TurboShrink (shut down in early 2026)
- EmailReputationAPI (shut down in May, 2026)
- SaaS Demos That Sell
- Building Micro Apps With Citrix Workspace
- Easy E-Commerce Using Laravel and Stripe
- Easy Laravel 5
- Easy Active Record for Rails Developers
- Easy PayPal with PHP
- Easy PHP Websites with the Zend Framework
- Beginning PHP and MySQL: From Novice to Professional
- Beginning PHP and Oracle: From Novice to Professional
- Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL 8: From Novice to Professional
- A Programmer's Introduction to PHP 4.0
I'm (now long retired) cofounder of the popular CodeMash Conference, the largest multi-day developer event in the Midwest. Although no longer involved in the organization, I still attend every year in order to take the kids to the companion KidzMash conference.
Computers are my primary thing, but I'm also an obsessive stamp collector. My primary interest is Cold War era stamps, specifically propagandistic stamps from the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries, notably East Germany. I love stamps so much that I run a subscription-based business called SpiesInDC which turns subscribers into secret agents for a ~3 month period. During this period subscribers receive mission envelopes in the mail (as in their real mailbox) containing Cold War reproduction documents, speech transcripts, maps, and stamps!
I'm also very into fitness, and have inspired many others to get fit through my 10,000 Pushups program. The famous game developer Patrick Wyatt even built a pushup app inspired by my fitness journey! It's called push10K and you can download it for free from the App Store. So far in 2026 I've participated in the Arnold Fitness Expo Pump & Run (March 8), and on April 25 I ran the Ohio Health 1/2 Marathon.