Tony Destefano
Senior Staff Software Engineer at GoFundMe
Spokane, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolTony Destefano is a Senior Staff Software Engineer and seasoned technology leader with over two decades of experience building web and e-commerce platforms, currently driving engineering at GoFundMe. He began his career in telecom, co-founded and sold a successful Spokane web agency, and later delivered nationally recognized public health applications before serving as CTO for a farm-to-table food company—ironically while remaining a vegetarian. Tony excels across the full stack (PHP, MySQL, Laravel, JavaScript, CSS) and combines hands-on coding with product-minded architecture and logistics systems design for high-traffic sites. Comfortable in both startup and enterprise environments, he has a track record of turning operational complexity into reliable, scalable systems and mentoring teams through growth and acquisition. Based in Spokane, he brings entrepreneurial grit, practical engineering, and a penchant for building pragmatic solutions that impact communities.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Science Computer Information Systems at Eastern Washington University
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (58)
shopify-api10
shopify10
api10
sdk10
craftcms9
php9
control-panel9
summernote9
twig9
yeoman9
extensible9
mysqli9
prestashop-module8
graphql8
twine8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
TonyDeStefano/Spokane-Fair-Photo-Contest
May 2016 - Jul 2020
Contributions:64 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
TonyDeStefano/OutSpokane-Pride-Forms
Feb 2016 - Apr 2019
Contributions:73 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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