David Johnston

Founder

Lexington, Kentucky, United States20 yrs 5 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Tech leader with multiple successful startup exits.
  • Expert in scaling payment systems significantly.
  • Co-founder of innovative platforms in property management and AI.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with extensive leadership experience.

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.NETAIXASP.NETActive DirectoryBashC#GitGithubJavaJavaScriptLinuxMySQLMicrosoft SQL ServerPHPPerl

About

David Johnston is a tech leader and serial founder with multiple exits under his belt. He began his career as a software engineer, later moving into leadership roles across startups, growth-stage companies, and enterprises. Along the way, he’s led engineering and product teams, helped scale payment systems from $400M to $2.5B, founded and sold multiple companies. Today, David is the co-founder of DoorSpot and the founder of CodeGuild AI. 🔑 About DoorSpot DoorSpot is a modern property management platform built for corporate housing and high-touch rental operations. It replaces fragmented tools with a single system for reservations, accounting, tenant communication, and operational workflows – designed for teams that treat every stay like a VIP experience. • Built specifically for corporate housing, not retrofitted from vacation or long-term rental software • Communication-first design with full message delivery and activity tracking • Flexible, reservation-based pricing and workflows that match how real operators work Learn more at doorspot.com 👾 About CodeGuild AI CodeGuild AI is the memory layer for AI-powered teams. It captures knowledge automatically as people work, preserves shared context across sessions and tools, and delivers the right information exactly when it’s needed → inside the AI tools teams already use. • Persistent memory so AI doesn’t restart from scratch every session • Shared intelligence that turns individual learning into team-wide knowledge • Tool-agnostic by design, working underneath Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and more Learn more at codeguild.ai

Experience

20 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs
Average Tenure
3 yrs 9 mos
Current Experience

Codeguild ai

Founder

Sep 2025Present · 8 mos · Lexington, Kentucky, United States · Remote

Doorspot

Co-Founder

Aug 2022Present · 3 yrs 9 mos · Lexington, Kentucky, United States · Remote

Subsplash

3 roles

Group Product Manager

Promoted

Jan 2022Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Technical Product Manager

Aug 2021Jan 2022 · 5 mos

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2021Aug 2021 · 2 mos

Two mites (now part of subsplash)

Founder

Feb 2019Sep 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Lexington, Kentucky

Payhoa

Principal Software Engineer

Nov 2018Jun 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Next steps consulting

Founder

Aug 2018Dec 2023 · 5 yrs 4 mos · Lexington, Kentucky

Quartzy, inc

Software Engineer

Aug 2018Nov 2018 · 3 mos

Legacy financial

2 roles

Software Engineering Director

Promoted

Jan 2017Aug 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos

Senior Web Developer

Oct 2015Jan 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos

Associations international

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2014Oct 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos · Lexington, Kentucky

Lexmark

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2011Apr 2014 · 3 yrs

Unmarked consulting

VP Engineering

Aug 2010Apr 2011 · 8 mos

Keane

Systems Consultant

May 2008Aug 2010 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Managing multiple local and remote AIX servers for the Kentucky Department of Education.

Kentucky department of education

Systems Analyst

Jan 2008Aug 2010 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Jcs technology

Developer

Aug 2007May 2008 · 9 mos

Bryan equipment sales

Programmer/Analyst

Jun 2006Jun 2007 · 1 yr

Data180

Programmer

Jan 2004Jan 2005 · 1 yr

Education

Morehead State University

BS in Computer Science

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