Don Restarone
Senior Software Engineer at Stripe
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDon Restarone is a senior software engineer and founder with eight years of experience building full-stack web applications, developer tools, and AI platforms. He currently works on internal systems at Stripe and previously led engineering and product efforts as founding Lead Engineer at Mave, helping the company win industry recognition and secure seed funding. As founder of Restarone Solutions he partners with small businesses, leads multi-discipline teams, maintains an open-source web framework (Violet Rails), and creates educational content to help others enter tech. His background spans Ruby on Rails, React, DevOps on AWS, and building scalable platform features—from CRM systems handling millions of messages to developer workflow tooling. He’s contributed to advanced software engineer evaluation work at OpenAI, signaling both practical engineering chops and attention to developer experience and assessment. Based in Old Toronto, he blends entrepreneurial drive with hands-on implementation and a knack for translating business needs into production-grade software.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering Immersive, Computer Science, Software Engineering Immersive, Computer Science at General AssemblyBusiness & Society, Economics, Business & Society, Economics at York University
Sinhalese, English
Github Skills (102)
origami10
tooling10
cms10
devise10
mls10
postgresql10
multitenancy10
ruby10
emberjs10
solidus10
ember10
ui-builder10
ruby-on-rails10
haml10
hotel-booking10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
restarone/comfortable-mexican-sofa
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Restarone/ComfortableMexicanSofa is a powerful Ruby on Rails 6+ CMS (Content Management System) Engine that powers Violet Rails Web Builder
Contributions:5 releases, 17 commits, 23 PRs in 1 year 10 months
ruby-on-railscmsmanagement-systemruby-on-rails-5rails
hnaseem1/taxi-fare-api
May 2018 - Jun 2018
ScoopFare is an app for comparing raid-hailing fares and ETAs - Rails REST API for Back-end, JS for front-end
Contributions:186 commits, 96 PRs, 106 pushes in 1 month
comparingapirails-apirails-restrails
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