willvinton.com
Will Vinton, smiling, in a navy blazer and white shirt

Wilmington, Delaware
Ecommerce · Product · Technology

Will Vinton

Ecommerce, digital product and technology leader.

I've spent my career building and running online businesses, from a self-funded startup to $320M a year in digital revenue. I run product, engineering, data and customer experience as one team, own more of the stack at lower cost, and put AI to work in everyday operations.

Mattress Firm · annual digital revenue

$20M → $320M

Eight years leading the platform, product and engineering behind it.

2013 2015 2019 2021 $20M $50M $113M $320M

Selected results

2009 to today

$20M → $320M

Grew Mattress Firm's annual digital revenue over eight years.

+20% in 6 months

Turned around Mishimoto's DTC ecommerce, then grew double digits each of the first two years in a flat, tariff-hit market.

<5 → 50+

Built a digital organization supporting 10+ websites and 20+ systems, with zero voluntary turnover.

+50% YoY

Grew Visionet's global digital consulting practice to 140 people and 20+ enterprise clients.

$0 → $5M+

Co-founded Olejo with no outside funding and saw it acquired by Mattress Firm.

80% faster

Moved Mattress Firm to a headless React, Next.js and PWA storefront on an edge CDN.

Experience

Most recent first

Jan 2024 – Present

Mishimoto Automotive

Director, Digital Experience & Technology

Garnet Valley, PA

Recruited by the CEO to rebuild ecommerce after leadership turnover. I lead the product, engineering, data and CX team behind six Magento storefronts (DTC and B2B across the US, EU and UK) on NetSuite, with P&L accountability and ownership of MarTech, vendor and offshore budgets.

  • Delivered 20% revenue growth within six months and double-digit growth in each of the first two years.
  • Founded centers of excellence for SEO, analytics, CRO, site speed and Kanban delivery; grew the team 50%.
  • Cut recurring software spend by replacing Optimizely, Adobe Live Search, AfterShip and an ERP connector with lower-cost or in-house builds (n8n, Meilisearch, Attentive).
  • Ran a two-day B2B workshop with the CEO and sales leadership to open the wholesale portal beyond ~85 distributors to independent shops.
  • Directed cross-border compliance for ~5,500 SKUs across Canada and 27 EU countries, including DDP duties at checkout.
  • Built an AI-assisted session-replay QA pipeline that surfaced and prioritized ~50 storefront defects.

2026 – Present

Commerce Builds, Inc.

Senior Digital Consultant & Project Lead

Wilmington, DE · Shopify Plus consultancy

  • Leading a WooCommerce to Shopify Plus replatform for a 26-store, century-old footwear retailer (~1,520 products, 111 brands), including SEO equity recovery.
  • Built a 22-epic, 12-month growth roadmap for a premium mattress brand.
  • Launched a 14-brand mattress retailer's Shopify catalog through scripted data pipelines and trained staff to own it.

Jul 2021 – Jan 2024

Visionet Systems

Head of Digital Consulting, Senior Director Digital

Cranbury, NJ

Led a global digital consulting practice of 140 people serving B2B and B2C retail and CPG clients.

  • Grew practice revenue 50% year over year with a new go-to-market, service offerings and sales collateral.
  • Created Digital Team-as-a-Service and transformation offerings bringing Agile, product management and design sprints to clients.
  • Spoke for the practice at industry events and led Design Thinking workshops for client leadership.

Jun 2013 – Jul 2021

Mattress Firm

Houston, TX

Director of Digital Technology · 2019–2021

  • Owned digital product engineering and the omnichannel and CRM roadmaps as revenue grew from $113M to $320M.
  • Moved the digital org from waterfall to SAFe Agile across 50+ internal and partner people.
  • Re-platformed onto a headless stack, improving site performance 80%; led Salesforce CRM across 2,500 stores.

Director of Digital · 2015–2019

  • Led a 30+ person team as revenue grew from $50M to $113M; launched BOPIS and delivery scheduling.

eCommerce Development Manager · 2013–2015

  • Stabilized a failing legacy platform, then led the Sitecore migration that took revenue from under $20M to $50M.

Jan 2009 – Jun 2013

Olejo Inc.

Co-Founder, Head of Product & Technology

Boston, MA

  • Built a homegrown ecommerce platform on minimal capital and grew the business to $5M+ without outside funding.
  • Led product, technology and integrations through the acquisition by Mattress Firm.

Projects & portfolio

What I'm building

Now

Running today

Holding company

Brecks Brothers

A family-run portfolio of six brands across digital consulting, food, landscaping and ecommerce, all run by a lean, AI-assisted operating model.

GitHub PagesClaude Code
Food · Greenville, DE

Brecks Brothers Bakery

Home bakery with weekly delivery of bagels, breads, pretzels, focaccia and pizza dough. The site validates demand before a move to Shopify subscriptions.

brecksbros.comOrder flow
Ecommerce

Springs Into the Hobby

A Shopify dropship store growing from sports cards and memorabilia into a broader hobby shop: Pokémon, coins and more.

ShopifyDropship
Services · New Castle County

Brecks Brothers Landscaping

Family-run lawn care using only 100% electric equipment and walk-behind mowers.

Electric only
Advisory

Brecks Brothers Digital Consulting

Ecommerce and digital strategy for brands taking a product or idea to a full Shopify Plus site, with the operations to run it.

Shopify PlusMagentoSalesforce
Client work

Commerce Builds engagements

A footwear replatform going live in November 2026, plus growth and catalog work for two mattress retailers.

ReplatformSEOPython
Next

In development

Consulting framework

Springboard

A foundation that lets a small ecommerce team run like a big one: a Figma design system, Claude, and Shopify and Klaviyo connected through MCP, with business processes automated end to end. Includes a scoring system and an education hub.

FigmaMCPKlaviyoAI ops
Hospitality

Brecks Bistro & Brecks Brothers Bistro

Two restaurant concepts: an exclusive prix-fixe dining room and a casual bar and restaurant. Open to investors and partners.

Seeking partners
Ecommerce concept

Pool skimmer store

A focused dropship shop for pool skimming gear, built for the parent who keeps the family pool clean.

ShopifyDropship
Shipped

Career highlights

Retail · 2013–2021

Mattress Firm digital

Sitecore migration, BOPIS, Salesforce CRM across 2,500 stores, and a headless storefront 80% faster than before.

HeadlessSalesforce
Automotive · 2024–

Mishimoto storefronts

Six Magento sites across the US, EU and UK, with cross-border duties, a B2B portal expansion and an in-house search stack.

MagentoNetSuiteMeilisearch
Startup · 2009–2013

Olejo

A bootstrapped ecommerce company on a platform I built, grown to $5M+ and acquired.

FounderExit

Platforms & tools

Commerce

Adobe Commerce (Magento), Shopify Plus, Salesforce Commerce and CRM, Sitecore, WooCommerce

ERP, payments & ops

NetSuite, n8n, Avalara, ShipperHQ, Braintree, PayPal, Klarna

Data & analytics

Snowflake, GA4, Tag Manager, Matomo, LogRocket, Search Console, Screaming Frog

Experience & marketing

Optimizely, Klaviyo, Attentive, Meilisearch, Figma

Engineering & delivery

React, Next.js, PWA, edge CDN, Python, Jira, Linear, SAFe, Kanban

AI

Claude Code and MCP-connected agents, AI-assisted QA and ticketing, AI prototyping and design

Education

Northeastern University B.S. Computer Science · Boston, MA

Contact

Have a product to launch or a team to build?

I work with founders and leadership teams on ecommerce strategy, replatforms and digital operations. Email is the fastest way to reach me.

wvinton.ecom@gmail.com
linkedin.com/in/will-vintonOpen
github.com/whv3rdOpen