David Stone
Distinguished Architect at Autodesk
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Stone is a Distinguished Architect with 16 years of experience shaping front-end architecture and user experiences for large consumer products, currently leading design and engineering at Autodesk after senior roles at Intuit. He specializes in micro-frontends, design systems, and semantic UI, and has guided UX architecture across TurboTax, Mint, and expert platforms to deliver consistent, scalable pixel-level experiences. David blends deep front-end craftsmanship with DevOps automation—contributing to tools that automate semantic-versioned releases and improve CI/CD workflows. He has a track record of moving features from prototype to production in complex microservice ecosystems and mentoring teams to adopt maintainable, reusable UI patterns. Based in San Diego with a BA in Applied Mathematics from UCSD, he brings a pragmatic, data-informed approach to design decisions. Colleagues rely on him for both high-level UX strategy and nitty-gritty engineering fixes that keep products reliable and ship-ready.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San Diego
Github Skills (8)
maven10
release-management10
auto-release10
automation10
automations10
github10
cicd10
git9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
intuit/auto
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Generate releases based on semantic version labels on pull requests.
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer & DevOps Engineer
Automation Engineer & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 1 issue in 13 days
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on automating the release process for the repository. They added functionality to the label command, allowing for checking the existence of a label and updating the CI/CD pipeline. They also addressed issues related to the Maven release plugin, fixing workflows for version bumps and ensuring proper integration. Furthermore, they made improvements to the logging by streaming logs in verbose mode and piping the output.
publishingjirarelease-automationsemantic-versioningslack
stabbylambda/trashcal
Sep 2022 - Mar 2025
San Diego's Trash Schedule, in iCal form
Contributions:82 PRs, 148 pushes, 87 branches in 2 years 6 months
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