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Full-stack developer · Nashville, TN

Have an idea?I’ll build it.

I'm Zach, a Nashville, TN based full-stack developer with 7+ years building and maintaining production apps. I help founders turn ideas into working products, keep older PHP systems running while modernizing them, and add AI where it earns its place.

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Zachary StovallFull-stack software engineer
Experience
7+ years shipping production apps
Builds
Full apps, idea to launch
Also
Legacy PHP · DTC · AI
Based in
Nashville, TN · Remote

[02] What I do

How I can help

For founders with an idea, businesses running on older systems, direct-to-consumer brands and teams adding AI.

  • 01

    Your idea, built

    Bring an idea, even a rough one. We shape it into a written spec together, then I build, launch and maintain the full app: accounts, payments, admin tools and everything behind them. I value accessibility and build with it in mind, so more people can use what we make.

  • 02

    Legacy PHP, kept running

    Keep the system your business runs on healthy: fix what breaks, speed up what's slow, upgrade PHP and framework versions safely, and modernize in place instead of a risky rewrite.

  • 03

    AI that earns its place

    Find where AI actually helps, then build it: natural-language search, matching, assistants and automations, with usage limits. I also help teams adopt AI-assisted engineering safely.

  • 04

    DTC & commerce platforms

    Checkout, subscriptions and clubs, allocations, fulfillment and tax compliance for brands that sell direct.

Ways to work together

  1. 01

    Fixed-price milestones

    New builds start with a written spec, then split into milestones with a price agreed up front. You pay for progress, not hours.

  2. 02

    Ongoing maintenance

    A monthly arrangement that keeps your app or legacy system healthy, updated and improving.

  3. 03

    Hourly consulting

    Architecture reviews, code audits and AI planning, billed by the hour.

[03] Selected work

Work that shipped

Real products with real constraints. Each case study covers the problem, the stack, the trade-offs and the result.

  1. Vibe Map's home page: the headline “Find the place that feels like yours” over a map of Middle Tennessee neighborhoods.

    vibemapai.com · live

    01

    Vibe Map

    An interactive map for finding US neighborhoods that match lifestyle preferences, with neighborhood-level detail, filters, accounts, payments and natural-language AI search.

    Role
    Founder and sole engineer
    Year
    2026
    Stack
    Next.js · Supabase · PostgreSQL · Stripe · Vercel · Claude API
    Visit vibemapai.com

  2. 02

    Offset Commerce

    The multi-tenant commerce platform 250+ fine-wine brands use to sell direct: checkout, wine clubs, allocations and fulfillment. I work across its architecture, from a custom PHP MVC framework, back-end services and MySQL databases to the TypeScript front end, search, caching, Stripe payments and Docker environments, and keep the legacy core running while modernizing it in place.

    Where
    Offset Partners
    Role
    Software Developer
    Year
    2022 – now
    Stack
    PHP · MySQL · TypeScript · Stripe · Elasticsearch · Memcached · Docker
    Visit offsetcommerce.com

    Platform impact · Mar 2025 – Oct 2026

    93%

    of the platform work assigned to me, taken all the way to Done

    455 of 489 issues

    159

    High & urgent priority

    32.5% of that work was high or urgent.

    455

    Platform issues taken to Done

    Issue counts for Mar 2025 – Oct 2026; no ticket names. Not a productivity score.

[04] Experience

How I got here

Seven-plus years of production work, in order. Each skill shows up where I first used it on the job.

  1. 2018

    Western Kentucky University

    B.S. Computer Science

    • Minor in Computer Information Systems
    • Competed on teams at VandyHacks and Hack the Hill (WKU), winning a category prize at VandyHacks with a team-built web app.

  2. Dec 2018 – Mar 2020

    Quore

    Developer · Franklin, TN

    • Delivered features and user experience improvements for a global hotel-management SaaS product.
    • Kept a revenue-critical PHP SaaS platform running on the Rapid Response team, resolving bugs, outages and urgent client requests.
    • Refactored performance bottlenecks and legacy code to improve platform reliability.
    • Built internal tools and token-based authentication for internal and partner integrations.

    New here

    • PHP
    • Laravel
    • REST APIs
    • Token auth
    • Incident response
    • Jira
    • Confluence
    • Microservices
    • Root-cause analysis
    • Refactoring
    • Performance tuning

  3. May 2020 – Aug 2022

    Cash Express LLC

    Software Engineer · Remote

    • Kept revenue-critical legacy PHP point-of-sale systems running and extended them for a multi-state consumer finance business.
    • Rebuilt outdated interfaces and reporting as maintainable Vue.js components on an MVC architecture.
    • Improved reporting and SMS notification automation to streamline daily operations.

    New here

    • Vue.js
    • MVC
    • Component architecture
    • Point of sale
    • Reporting
    • SMS automation
    • Stakeholder alignment
    • Compliance requirements

  4. Apr 2022 – now

    Offset Partners

    Software Developer · Remote

    Contract through Aug 2022

    • Keep a revenue-critical legacy PHP commerce platform serving 250+ boutique wine brands running while leading its modernization, building PHP back-end services.
    • Work across the platform's whole architecture: a custom in-house PHP MVC framework, its back-end services and MySQL databases, a TypeScript front end, Elasticsearch search, Memcached caching, Stripe payments and Docker environments.
    • Manage the platform's MySQL / MariaDB databases, including writing MySQL events and triggers that automate recurring and row-level database work.
    • Deliver commerce features across checkout, wine clubs, allocations, fulfillment, tax compliance and customer management.
    • Rebuilt a marketing sync that was reported complete in about 2 minutes, versus previously reported runs of 45 minutes to 2 hours.
    • Build AI and scripted automations that take manual work off the team.

    New here

    • Software architecture
    • Legacy modernization
    • MySQL
    • MySQL events
    • MySQL triggers
    • TypeScript
    • Docker
    • Stripe
    • Elasticsearch
    • Memcached
    • Commerce platforms
    • Subscriptions
    • Tax compliance
    • Background jobs
    • API performance
    • Automation
    • Code review
    • Cross-team collaboration
    • Figma
    • Release planning
    • AI-assisted engineering

  5. 2026

    Vibe Map

    Founder and sole engineer

    • An interactive map for finding US neighborhoods that match lifestyle preferences, with neighborhood-level detail, filters, accounts, payments and natural-language AI search.

    New here

    • Next.js
    • Supabase
    • PostgreSQL
    • Row-level security
    • Vercel
    • LLM features
    • Claude API
    • Product discovery
    • User feedback

  6. Next

    Your idea

    Have an idea, or a system that needs help? Let's build what's next.

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[05] Contact

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