Colby Stone is an engineering manager based in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area with 11 years of professional experience and a background that began with eight years as a freelance web developer. After four years self-taught, he completed a BS in Computer Science in 2014 and moved into senior engineering roles, now leading teams at IBM since 2019. He brings full-stack expertise from hands-on MEAN-stack and e-commerce work to building robust REST APIs and data schemas, pairing practical product delivery with engineering leadership. Colby’s career shows a pattern of evolving from individual contributor to technical manager while maintaining a strong grounding in web technologies and analytics integrations. Notably, his early entrepreneurial freelance work and head developer role at GuruPeeps reflect an ability to translate client needs into scalable engineering solutions.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.), Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.) at Greenfield Community College
Contributions:1 PR, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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