Stuart Yamartino is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building full-stack web and mobile backends, currently architecting solutions at Dockwa. A co-founder and former CTO of Acacia Interactive, he specializes in designing and maintaining RESTful APIs, server infrastructure on AWS, and secure authentication systems while also contributing polished front-end experiences. He’s fluent in Ruby on Rails, React, and responsive design, and has a track record of shipping both product and open-source work—contributions include UI and responsive-email improvements for the popular bootstrap-email project and a force-touch JavaScript library. Stuart’s background in mechanical engineering and product prototyping gives him a pragmatic systems-thinking approach to software design, and he favors DRY, single-responsibility, and heavily refactored, testable code. Based in Boston, he blends entrepreneurial grit with deep technical ownership across servers, databases, and client interfaces.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Interactive Media Studies Web Development & Interaction Design, Interactive Media Studies Web Development & Interaction Design at Miami University
Bootstrap stylesheet, compiler, and inliner for responsive and consistent emails with the Bootstrap syntax you know and love.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:33 releases, 486 commits, 83 PRs in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Stuart contributed to the project by implementing and customizing UI components. They focused on creating various button styles, including different colors and sizes, and integrating them within the email templates. Their work also involved designing and implementing responsive grid layouts and responsive support to the button and spacing classes, ensuring the components render correctly on various devices.
:point_down::boom: JavaScript library for handling Force Touch, 3D Touch, and Pointer Pressure.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:12 releases, 263 commits, 46 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Stuart is primarily focused on developing a JavaScript library for handling force touch, 3D touch, and pointer pressure. Their contributions include renaming the library, restructuring its components, and refining its API. The user is actively implementing and modifying functionality for both force touch and 3D touch, making it easier to target different devices and handle pressure events. The work also involves the creation of a basic HTML test page to display and debug this functionality.
javascript-librarypolyfilljavascripttilttouch
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