# Michael Kuhlman

> Senior Magento 2 & Adobe Commerce Lead Developer. About 20 years building software, Magento since 2012. I led a team of about 5 on 18 storefronts for America's leading museums and zoos, including the Obama Foundation's official store. Adobe Commerce builds, ERP/POS integrations and Magento→Shopify migrations.

- Available now — full-time or contract
- Based in Pacific Beach, San Diego, CA
- Email: mkuhlman12@gmail.com
- Phone: 707-540-1336
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-kuhlman-dev

## Career

- 2025–present: Independent Adobe Commerce & Shopify Consultant, Independent. Magento to Shopify migrations and eCommerce builds for merchants, with AI-assisted development as leverage.
- 2021–2025: Senior Lead Magento 2 Developer, Event Network. Led a team of about 5 developers on 18 Magento 2 storefronts for museums, zoos and cultural attractions, including the Obama Foundation's official store.
- 2019–2022: Co-founder & Full-Stack Engineer, CourseDuck.com. Co-founded CourseDuck.com and built it end to end as the only engineer.
- 2012–2019: Magento freelancer, consultant and agency founder, Independent. Magento 1 and 2 work for merchants and enterprise clients: freelancing, consulting and a Magento agency I founded.

## Pages

- [Michael Kuhlman | Senior Magento 2 & Adobe Commerce Lead Developer, San Diego](https://www.michael-kuhlman.com/index.md): Senior Magento 2 / Adobe Commerce lead developer in San Diego. Led a team of about 5 on 18 storefronts for leading museums and zoos, including the Obama Foundation's official store. ERP/POS integrations and Magento to Shopify migrations. Available now.
- [Selected work | Michael Kuhlman, Magento 2 & Adobe Commerce Lead Developer](https://www.michael-kuhlman.com/work.md): Case studies from Michael Kuhlman: the Obama Foundation and American Museum of Natural History stores, consolidating a long tail of partner stores, Event Network's Magento 2 to Shopify migration, leading a team of about 5 and the release process, and Atlas.
- [Résumé | Michael Kuhlman, Senior Magento 2 & Adobe Commerce Lead Developer](https://www.michael-kuhlman.com/resume.md): Résumé of Michael Kuhlman: senior Adobe Commerce / Magento 2 lead developer. Led a team of about 5 on 18 storefronts at Event Network (2021–2025), including the Obama Foundation's official store. San Diego, available now.
- [About Michael Kuhlman | Magento 2 & Adobe Commerce Lead Developer, San Diego](https://www.michael-kuhlman.com/about.md): Michael Kuhlman, senior Adobe Commerce / Magento 2 lead in San Diego. Led a team of about 5 on 18 storefronts at Event Network, including the Obama Foundation's official store and the American Museum of Natural History's. About 20 years building software, Magento since 2012.
- [Contact Michael Kuhlman | Magento & Adobe Commerce Developer, San Diego](https://www.michael-kuhlman.com/contact.md): Email or call Michael Kuhlman, senior Magento 2 / Adobe Commerce lead developer in San Diego. Available now for full-time roles and contract work.

## Services

- [Adobe Commerce Lead Developer & Contractor | Michael Kuhlman, San Diego](https://www.michael-kuhlman.com/adobe-commerce-developer.md): Senior Adobe Commerce and Magento 2 lead developer in San Diego. Custom modules, multi-store, performance, checkout, ERP/POS integrations. Available now, full-time or as an Adobe Commerce contractor.
- [Magento 2.4.6 End of Support: Upgrade Help | Michael Kuhlman, San Diego](https://www.michael-kuhlman.com/magento-upgrade.md): Magento 2.4.6 standard support ended Aug 11, 2026; extended support ends Aug 31, 2027. Senior Magento 2 developer in San Diego for Adobe Commerce upgrades, security patches, or a replatform to Shopify.
- [Magento Migration Discovery Audit | Michael Kuhlman, San Diego](https://www.michael-kuhlman.com/migration-audit.md): A migration discovery audit for Magento and Adobe Commerce stores: code, extensions, data model, integrations, SEO and risk, with a written plan. From a Magento to Shopify migration consultant in San Diego.
- [Magento to Shopify Migration Consultant | Michael Kuhlman, San Diego](https://www.michael-kuhlman.com/magento-to-shopify-migration.md): Magento to Shopify migration consultant in San Diego. I led Event Network's Magento 2 to Shopify migration and handle data-model mapping, SEO redirect maps, ERP/POS integrations and cutover.

## Case studies

- [The Obama Foundation and the American Museum of Natural History](https://www.michael-kuhlman.com/work/obama-foundation-and-amnh.md): Leading the Obama Foundation's official store and the American Museum of Natural History's store, working directly with executive leadership at both.
- [One platform for the long tail of partner stores](https://www.michael-kuhlman.com/work/storefront-consolidation.md): Consolidating a long tail of underperforming partner storefronts into one shared storefront platform, which sharply grew partner sales.
- [Event Network: Magento 2 → Shopify](https://www.michael-kuhlman.com/work/event-network-shopify-migration.md): How I led Event Network's move of its museum and zoo storefronts from Magento 2 to Shopify: data-model mapping, the SEO redirect map, integrations and cutover.
- [Leading the team and the release process](https://www.michael-kuhlman.com/work/engineering-leadership.md): Leading a team of about 5 developers on 18 Magento 2 storefronts: the Git workflow, pull-request review, every deployment, the ERP/POS integration backbone and a checkout regression suite.
- [Atlas: sandboxed AI workspaces](https://www.michael-kuhlman.com/work/atlas-ai-workspaces.md): Atlas runs Claude Code and Codex behind a tailored, strictly sandboxed workspace per client, so non-technical owners can safely make changes to their own sites.

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