Stone Follari
Full-Stack Engineer ⸱ SaaS Founder ⸱ Entrepreneur
I specialize in high-performance web applications using TypeScript, React, and PSQL. I build, launch, and scale my own products.
My Background
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My passion for coding began early, launching small projects and social media sites in high school. I continued a self-driven, entrepreneurial approach to learning and growing as a developer through-out college.
My career quickly accelerated in the startup environment. My passion and unique experience allowed me to rapidly advance to a Senior Engineer role, where I became an expert in building robust, modern applications primarily using TypeScript across the stack, PostgreSQL and Rust for critical backend tasks, and deploying using modern CI/CD.
After experiencing a major startup layoff, I chose to transition to full-time entrepreneurship to develop my own projects, most notably Sellmotto - an enterprise-grade e-commerce inventory management and listing platform.
Founder Ventures
Sellmotto sellmotto.com
Enterprise SaaSEnterprise-level platform streamlining multi-channel e-commerce. Built from scratch with a proprietary architecture to support high-SKU businesses and automate complex listing processes.
Role: Sole technical engineer, responsible for full architecture (100k+ lines of code) and deployment pipeline.
Visit SiteTeam Automate Custom Software
Co-Founder & Lead DevCustom e-commerce multi-channel listing and automation service integrated directly into a retailer's existing platform to expand online sales capabilities.
Inspired the architectural foundation and market understanding for Sellmotto. Focused on robust integration and data normalization.
Projects
RankTrivia ranktrivia.com
A fresh take on trivia, use AI to generate unique ranked lists. Supports solo play and real-time multiplayer using WebSockets.
Ephemeral Gallery ephemeralgallery.com
A concept for sharing photography through a fleeting, view-once experience. Focuses on the unique user experience and scarcity.
Previous Work Experience
2021 – 2023
Senior Engineer
- Lead Engineer & Architect in ground-zero development of SCIM provisioning service to allow native and one-click integration with multiple major industry clients and third-party platforms. Facilitated a major deal to close, expanding client-base significantly, and facilitated immediate native integration with the parent company.
- Re-engineered in-house client usage monitoring services. Discovered more up-sell opportunities, relieved server over-utilization crashes for on-call Engineers.
- Re-engineered storage quota enforcement and billing system. Reduced wasted system utilization and cost-per-client, reduce cost of net-negative free clients, facilitated policy change to up-sell customers, and developed tools for users to better manage their own usage.
2020 – 2021
Software Engineer
- Ground zero development of client-facing analytics dashboard. Utilized browsing data to determine most-popular products/options. Allow clients to know their most desired products and create customized marketing campaigns.
- Created ML Recommendation Engine, show product suggestions to improve sales potential and UX. TensorFlow+Python.
- Solved BigQuery scalability issues. Raw-data pre-processing pipeline, scheduled scripts & queries to process data into more manageable and useful sub-tables.
- Designed & implemented multivariate user score based on how browsing behaviors align with users who purchased a home. Dashboard and alerted sales team to reach out and close potential sale.
- Refactored major backend services into optimized Rust services. Facilitated transition from B2C to a B2B2C marketplace with ~1000x expected traffic to clients. Implemented caching and data pre-processing.
- Mentored data analysis intern in project to determine company growth and project directions for optimized growth.
Education
University of North Carolina Greensboro (UNCG)
B.S. Physics, Computer Science - Minor in Math
Graduated: 2020 - 3.92 GPA
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