Christopher Stoll

stollee, llc

Responsibilities

• Help client software teams implement processes and AI tools for shipping code and achieving business objectives faster
• Developed web-stack software products using Javascript, Python, Elixir, Java, and related technologies

Accomplishments

• Shipped EHR software with bi-directional integrations to the dominant long-term-care EMRs (PointClickCare and MatrixCare), letting client facilities sync resident data automatically
• Launched f8 Develop, a paid Mac App whose custom color-science algorithms convert film negatives into finished positives

City of Barberton

Responsibilities

• Listen to citizens' concerns and attempt to find solutions
• Identify areas for improvement and modernization within the city, propose changes, fight to enact them as legislation

Accomplishments

• Evaluated competing electricity aggregation programs and led the selection of NOPEC as the city's energy aggregation partner
• Weighed sourcing options to sustain the city's Certified Building Official (CBO) services after recruiting in-house talent proved unsuccessful

Bloomfilter (A Techstars Portfolio Company)

Responsibilities

• Built the company, founding team, and product as technical co-founder
• Balanced build-versus-buy and quality-versus-speed across a startup roadmap
• Owned client onboarding, compliance, and security posture

Accomplishments

• Helped raise a $7M seed round (led by Magarac Venture Partners, with Sequoia, Techstars, and others) and grew the team from 2 founders to roughly a dozen
• Achieved SOC 2 Type II certification, a prerequisite for enterprise and regulated-industry sales
• Shipped AI agents that let clients explore complex software-delivery data conversationally
• Fine-tuned domain-specific AI models for the software-development lifecycle to power product insights
• Architected a scalable, business-driven integrations platform connecting clients' existing engineering and project systems

Skiplist

Responsibilities

• Solution architect and technical lead for all company projects
• Work with Chief Product Officer to create cross-functional teams which are autonomous, all-remote, and happy
• Manage staffing, subcontractors, and vendor relations

Accomplishments

• Partnered with over a dozen large enterprises, including 3 Fortune 500 companies, to deliver nearly 20 distinct projects
• Led teams delivering a range of technical solutions, including SaaS products, data pipelines, and IOT hardware devices
• Led the ground-up development of a SaaS product which integrates with external enterprise systems to monitor and report project health scores. Delivered the product while balancing the needs of sales, product, and engineering
• Technical leader for a national internet service provider's computer-vision system to inventory assets across 1500 sites; was directly responsible for coding the Python/Tensorflow vision pipeline on AWS EC2 and SageMaker. Convinced the client to diverge from the sold solution and use an innovative workflow which made the app usable prior to having complete data and a complete vision model
• Delivered a cloud-based data modeling system despite incomplete specs and lack of access to underlying data
• Led a project to create a prototype IOT device to perform on-device object detection for the purpose of continuously and automatically maintaining inventory levels at remote sites
• Led a project to create a prototype IOT device to record images from automotive dashboards and send them to a cloud-based computer vision pipeline for later analysis

Rusty Patched Software

• Built Raspberry Pi and Arduino devices that calibrate and repair vintage film cameras
• Launched Tatfoo, a Phoenix/Elixir SaaS for tattoo artists to manage proposals and schedule clients

Coffee and Code

• Guided clients through the full Rails delivery lifecycle, from user stories through UAT to production
• Delivered a Rails SaaS that automated reserve calculations for a financial-services firm's insurance products

OnShift

• Built a multi-algorithm machine-learning system in Python that automated employee shift scheduling in production
• Created a new mobile application strategy using hybrid apps which drastically reduced time to market for new features
• Introduced Docker, drove its adoption, created a Kubernetes POC, and built a team to productionalize Kubernetes using Ansible and CloudFormation
• Implemented microservices using gRPC and Protocol Buffers
• As a servant leader, facilitated team-driven solutions and created space for team members to realize their potential
• Provided technical leadership: fought for short-term solutions to help achieve long-term, cross-product engineering goals

Performance Administration Corp

• Designed a microservices architecture, based upon NodeJS and Ember, to replace existing monolithic PHP application
• Eliminated internal Linux server farm by migrating existing PHP applications to Docker on AWS (EB, SQS, CodePipeline, S3)
• Led small team of developers using Agile/Scrum methods

City of Barberton

• Drove technical modernization across departments and party lines within a politically divided municipal government
• Owned a $250K IT budget, capital planning, and staff management
• Launched IT shared services across three municipalities (Barberton, Copley, and Norton), consolidating cost and staff
• Stood up an ITIL-based IT service-management practice
• Modernized core network infrastructure (WiFi, routing, VPNs, and cloud services)

Schaeffler Group NA

• Created a JavaScript fuzzy name-matching library (dynamic programming) that improved data consistency across internal web applications
• Built a web-based internal audit system adopted across 12 North American plants
• Led the technology portion of a $.5mil SAP rollout and advised subsequent plant rollouts, coordinating ABAP development with colleagues in Germany, Mexico, and China
• Core member of the plant-wide, cross-functional Kaizen (lean) team