# Adobe Commerce lead developer, full‑time or contract Service · Adobe Commerce lead development I lead Magento 2 and Adobe Commerce teams: custom modules, multi-store, performance, checkout and ERP/POS integrations. Available now, full‑time or contract. From 2021 to 2025 I was Senior Lead Magento 2 Developer at Event Network, leading a team of about five developers on 18 storefronts for museums, zoos and cultural attractions, including the Obama Foundation's official store and the American Museum of Natural History's. I owned the Git workflow, pull-request review and every deployment. I've been building software for about 20 years, and working in Magento since 2012. ## What I lead **Architecture and custom development.** Custom Magento modules and extensions, themes built on Luma/Blank and UI components, and multi-store / multi-website configurations on a shared codebase. Headless builds with PWA Studio and GraphQL. **Upgrades and security.** Magento and Adobe Commerce upgrades, security patches and Adobe Commerce feature work. With 2.4.6 in extended support only until August 31, 2027, [upgrade planning](https://www.michael-kuhlman.com/magento-upgrade) is on most roadmaps right now. **Performance.** Varnish, Redis, Elasticsearch and CDN configuration, profiling with New Relic, and hosting on AWS and Magento Cloud. **Checkout, payments and marketplaces.** Payment gateway integrations, checkout, shipping and fulfillment, and Amazon / eBay marketplace sync through M2E Pro. **Integrations.** ERP and POS integrations over REST and GraphQL that keep inventory, orders and fulfillment in sync across in-store and online. [How I built them at Event Network](https://www.michael-kuhlman.com/work/engineering-leadership). **SEO.** Technical SEO for Magento: URL structure, rewrites, canonical handling, and redirects when things move. ## Ways to work with me - **Full‑time.** A senior or lead Magento / Adobe Commerce role on your team, remote or hybrid / on-site in San Diego. - **Contract, inside your agency.** I founded and ran a Magento development agency myself, so I work to your process and your client relationship. I can lead a build, take a workstream, or rescue one that's in trouble. - **Contract, direct to a merchant.** An Adobe Commerce contractor for a defined piece of work: an upgrade, an integration, a performance problem, an audit or a [Magento to Shopify migration](https://www.michael-kuhlman.com/magento-to-shopify-migration). ## Background - **Event Network, 2021–2025.** Senior Lead Magento 2 Developer. Led development on 18 Magento 2 storefronts, including the Obama Foundation's official store and the American Museum of Natural History's; owned the release process, the ERP/POS integrations and the company's migration from Magento 2 to Shopify. - **CourseDuck.com, 2019–2022.** Co-founded it and built it end to end: PHP, a custom CMS, Python data pipelines and ML content ranking. - **Magento freelancer, consultant and agency founder, 2012–2019.** A 5/5 rating across thousands of billable hours on Elance (now Upwork), enterprise consulting for clients with $10M+ annual revenue, Magento to Shopify migrations for merchants, a week-long Magento training workshop in Houston, TX; I founded and ran a Magento development agency. - **Independent, 2025–present.** Adobe Commerce and Shopify consulting, with AI-assisted development as leverage. ## AI as leverage, with guardrails I use Claude Code and multi-model APIs as leverage on real engineering work, with every change reviewed. I also built [Atlas](https://www.michael-kuhlman.com/work/atlas-ai-workspaces), a platform that runs coding agents inside strictly sandboxed, per-client workspaces. On an Adobe Commerce team that means I move faster on the routine work and I'm careful about what an AI tool is allowed to touch. ## Stack Magento 2 & 1, Adobe Commerce, PWA Studio, GraphQL · PHP (OOP), MySQL / MariaDB, PostgreSQL, REST, RabbitMQ, Composer, Laravel · Varnish, Redis, Elasticsearch, CDN, New Relic, AWS, Magento Cloud, Docker, Linux, CI/CD · Knockout.js, RequireJS, TypeScript, React, LESS / SASS · Shopify, WordPress / WooCommerce · Git, Agile / Scrum. ## Questions **Are you available right now?** Yes. I'm available now for full‑time roles and contract work. **Do you work on Magento Open Source as well as Adobe Commerce?** Yes, both, and Magento 1 as well. The code base is largely shared; the differences are in licensed features, Cloud hosting and Adobe's support terms. **Can you work on-site?** I'm in Pacific Beach, San Diego. I work remotely with teams anywhere and can be hybrid or on-site in San Diego. **We're on 2.4.6. How urgent is it?** Standard support ended on August 11, 2026 and extended support ends on August 31, 2027, after which 2.4.6 gets security-only fixes until May 31, 2028 ([Adobe lifecycle policy](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/commerce-operations/release/planning/lifecycle-policy), last checked Sep 25, 2026). Plan the upgrade now rather than in summer 2027. ## Working together 1. **Email the brief:** your version, catalog size and integrations. 2. **A 30-minute call** to go through it together. 3. **A written, fixed-scope proposal.** ## Hiring for an Adobe Commerce lead? Send me the role or the project. I'll reply with what I'd need to know and whether I'm a fit. [Email me](mailto:mkuhlman12@gmail.com) · [Call 707-540-1336](tel:+17075401336) · [Download résumé](https://www.michael-kuhlman.com/michael-kuhlman-resume.pdf) --- Canonical: https://www.michael-kuhlman.com/adobe-commerce-developer