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Donald Thomas Stolz

Senior Full Stack Engineer

Summary

Senior engineer with over 8 years React, & Node.js full stack experience. Enjoys challenges, actively goes outside his comfort zone to gain new experiences. A leader and mentor, with experience coordinating group efforts through open communication.

Experience

02/2025Present

Full Stack Engineer

Self-employed freelance
  • Providing cloud solutions with GCP, Terraform & Firebase, enabling startups to scale their applications
  • Utilizing Gemini LLM to perform user personality analysis & generate engaging insights based on user's voting tendencies
06/202301/2025

Senior Full Stack Engineer

soona (Acquired Trend)
  • Spearheaded Trend technical development throughout acquisition
  • Created demos, reports, & documentation to enable a smooth acquisition
  • Collaborated with soona's payment team; Utilized Stripe API, Ruby on Rails, & Vue.js
12/202106/2023

Head of Engineering

Trend
  • Conceptualized and defined long-term technical direction and goals, aligning the team with future growth initiatives
  • Implemented new features including new AWS services, cloud function migrations, improved front-end frameworks, while maintaining existing user experience 
  • Wrote technical & non-technical documentation, to promote clear communication
01/202112/2021

Co-Founder & Technology Lead

Asset Dash
  • Performed back end migration from Heroku to GCP, cutting down monthly costs
  • Coordinated contractors & junior developers on feature development
  • Automated unit testing with Jest, ensuring leaderboard data reliability
02/202110/2021

Full Stack Engineer

Elevator Media
  • Enhanced internal tools, improving admin & developer experience
  • Deployed BitPay crypto payments, increasing user's payment choices
04/201911/2020

Full Stack Engineer

Unstoppable Domains
  • Revitalized frontend with Next.js, enhancing the performance, SEO, & developer experience 
  • Generated sales and UX reports, allowing the business to make informed decisions
  • Developed innovative website builder tools, driving domain growth from approximately 100 in 01/2020 to over 15,000 by 06/2020, significantly enhancing customer acquisition and retention
10/201805/2019

Instructor

Code For Fun
  • Taught students 7-16 years old the fundamentals of programming
  • Published curriculum for the Web Development topics at Hack High School
01/201805/2019

Full Stack Engineer

AXLRY
  • Designed & built sign up website using React with Gatsby
  • Implemented mobile app features with React Native

Education

20162018

Software Engineering B.S.

Loyola University Chicago
  • 3.48 gpa - Graduated in 3 years
  • Webmaster & Alumni Coordinator - TKE