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Donald Stolz

Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer with 6+ years of experience. Proven expertise in cloud technologies and full stack application development. Utilizes problem-solving...

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Donald Stolz

Senior Software Engineer

Austin, TX

About Me

Senior Software Engineer with 6+ years of experience. Proven expertise in cloud technologies and full stack application development. Utilizes problem-solving skills to drive team success and accelerate project delivery.

Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer

soona
2023-062025-01

soona is your all-in-one platform to make, manage, and optimize photo + video content for all your ecommerce channels.

  • Member of soona's payment team, utilized Stripe, Postgres, Ruby on Rails, and Vue.js to enhance payment processing features
  • Led Trend technical development through acquisition. Used Typescript, React, and Next.js for application development
  • Created and presented detailed transition documentation to onboard soona engineers. Utilized Notion, Swagger, & Miro
  • Earned AWS Solutions Architect certification
  • Built features to scale revenue, grew to over $150,000 monthly

Head of Engineering

Trend
2021-122023-05

We help companies win at marketing. We connect brands with creators who provide original & specifically targeted content.

  • Led technical development initiatives while directly reporting to the CEO and CPO
  • Planned sprints and broke down project tickets in collaboration with the CPO using Asana
  • Presented product demos to team members, keeping everyone informed on ongoing builds and collecting valuable feedback for continuous improvement
  • Managed relationships with outside partners and contractors
  • Created comprehensive documentation using tools like Notion, Swagger, and Storybook

Co-Founder & Technology Lead

Asset Dash
2021-012021-12

The leaderboard for assets. Asset Dash ranks the top stocks, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies by market capitalization. Track over 4,000 of the largest companies and cryptos.

  • Migrated backend and database from Heroku to Google Cloud Platform
  • Updated and maintained Postgres database Refactored client to Next.js; Improved performance & SEO
  • Created new features to drive user growth and increase session duration

Education

42 - Silicon Valley

Software Engineering in Software Engineering
2018-092019-06

Key Courses:

Project based learningC

Loyola University Chicago

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
2014-092018-05

Key Courses:

Computer ScienceMathematicsBusiness Administration

Skills

Front-end Development

Advanced
HTMLCSSJavaScriptTypeScriptReactNextJSVueReact Native

Back-end Development

Expert
Node.jsExpressNestJSPythonRuby on Rails

Database

Intermediate
MongoDBPostgreSQLFirestoreRedisSnowflake

DevOps

Advanced
DockerKubernetesAWSGCPCI/CDGitHub Actions

AI Tools

Proficient
CursorGemini AIV0Copilot

Volunteer Experience

Hack High School

Volunteer Mentor
2019-012019-05

The goal of HackHighSchool is to provide equality of access to computer science and digital literacy for the 21st Century to all high school students age 14-18. HackHighSchool(H2S) is a free,8-month long coding club open from September to May.

  • Created Node JS Curriculum
  • Taught JavaScript & Web Development
  • Built app to help manage student check-in and daily reports.

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Volunteer
2016-022018-05

The mission of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is to advance cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment. I coordinated and participated in philanthropic events for St. Jude

Food Recovery Network

Volunteer
2017-012018-05

Participated in food recovery runs after campus events, recovering food that can be donated to a local food pantry. Assisted with food drives and helped coordinate volunteers from my fraternity.