Hello, I'm

Don Restarone

Senior Software Engineer @ Stripe

Building scalable systems and leading engineering teams. Founder of Restarone Solutions. Previously OpenAI, Mave, Copper, and Secureframe.

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Don Restarone

About

I'm a senior software engineer with 8+ years of experience building web applications, leading teams, and shipping products at scale. I currently work at Stripe on internal systems, and I'm the founder of Restarone Solutions — a software engineering and digital design agency.

I'm passionate about building software that matters, contributing to open source software, and helping others transition into Tech through content on Medium and YouTube.

8+ Years Experience
3x Founding Engineer
$50M+ in Product Led Growth

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Stripe

Nov 2024 — Present · San Francisco, CA · Hybrid

Working on internal systems. Building and maintaining core infrastructure that powers Stripe's operations.

SQL JavaScript Internal Systems

Founder

Restarone Solutions Inc

Jun 2020 — Present · Toronto, ON

  • Engaging small businesses to develop meaningful partnerships & deliver software products within time & budget constraints
  • Leading multiple engineering and design teams to build software products
  • Supporting Violet Rails, an open-source web framework
  • Creating programming content for Medium & YouTube to help individuals learn & transition into tech
AWS React.js Leadership

Software Engineer Expert

OpenAI

Sep 2024 — Nov 2024 · Remote

Contributing to Expert Software Engineer Eval (Expert SWE Eval) for developing Advanced SWE: Ruby.

Ruby Ruby on Rails AI/ML

Lead Software Engineer (Founding)

Mave

Oct 2023 — Oct 2024 · Remote

  • Designed & developed Mave AI Demo — won Gamechanger of the Year at 2023 Buzz Conference with 200+ signups
  • Tech Lead for Mave AI V1 — garnered $2M round of funding from multiple investors
  • Project Lead for Mave Web Platform including Email Template Editor and AI Graph Templates
  • Lead Architect for Mave AI V2
AI Data Science Ruby on Rails React

Project Lead

Copper

Apr 2022 — May 2023 · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Spearheaded projects like Text Filters V2 and Entity Blank States to drive customer engagement
  • Extended application functionality to increase product adoption
  • Bridged the gap between staff engineering teams and internal engineering
Change Management Process Improvement

Senior Software Engineer

Copper

Jun 2021 — Jun 2022 · San Francisco, CA

  • Full stack developer on Copper/ALI mono-repository
  • Spearheaded the first-time trial experience
  • Implemented text filters by modifying ALI's Elastic Search integration
Amazon EKS Ember.js Ruby on Rails

Software Engineer: Platform & Infrastructure

Secureframe

Apr 2022 — Jan 2023 · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Dockerized the developer workflow
  • Built solutions for frontend environment variable management and asset bundling/delivery
  • Contributed to product stability and developer productivity
React.js Docker Swarm Platform

Lead Full Stack Web Developer

Forthspace Hospitality Group

Jun 2018 — Jul 2020 · Toronto, ON

  • Led a team of frontend developers & designers — achieved 5-star ratings with 2,600+ reviews serving 200,000+ guests/year
  • Architected a complex CRM with Ruby on Rails managing 50,000+ client records and 1M+ SMS/year
  • Developed a Stripe payment processor for event ticket sales and recurring billing
  • Created a custom analytics dashboard with React for business intelligence
AWS React.js Ruby on Rails Stripe

Skills & Technologies

Languages

JavaScript TypeScript Ruby Python SQL HTML/CSS

AI/ML

Openclaw Ollama Mistral Gemma Hermes Agent LangChain

Infrastructure

AWS Retool Docker

Databases

ElasticSearch MongoDB PostgreSQL InfluxDB

Frameworks

React Ruby on Rails FastAPI Node.js Express.js

Open Source & Community

Violet Rails

Contributing to and supporting Violet Rails, an open-source Ruby on Rails framework for building web applications.

Content Creation

Creating programming-related content on Medium and YouTube to help individuals learn and transition into tech careers.

Mentorship

Mentoring students at Lighthouse Labs, helping them understand computer science fundamentals through project-based learning.

Get in Touch

I'm always open to discussing new projects, creative ideas, or opportunities to be part of something great.

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