Mike Whitfield

Teaches at DaVinci Institute

Mike Whitfield is an open-source advocate and a digital native. He’s given his time to Amazon, Cisco, and Google. 

Mike started as a perl developer where he developed a catalogue system for his high school library. In college, he programmed 3D games using Half-Life 2’s game engine and Unreal Engine 2/3. Mike transitioned to the web with WordPress in 2010 and he used PHP to drive results. By 2012, Mike recognized the web’s shifting interest to JavaScript. Convinced that JavaScript represented a seismic shift in development, Mike began cataloguing the change.

In his spare time, Mike advances his software to download the internet.  Mike’s objective is to preserve a copy of the internet and make it accessible for others to do so.