Summary
John Bono is an independent software engineer based in San Francisco with nine years of mobile-first engineering experience and a seven-year focus on production Android apps using Kotlin and modern tooling. He specializes in event-driven, concurrent, and asynchronous systems that deliver responsive, performance-sensitive UIs and resilient behavior in unreliable networks. His background leading signals and data analyst teams for the military and NSA informs a disciplined approach to system reliability, decision-making under uncertainty, and secure telemetry. John pairs that rigor with creative instincts from studies in psychobiology and creative writing and years as a traveling street performer, which sharpen his ability to design engaging, intuitive user experiences. Recently he’s been exploring LLM-driven agents, interactive narratives, and real-time mobile simulations, prototyping Android and Unity systems that blend intelligent agents with spatial interaction.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Android Developer Nanodegree, Android Developer Nanodegree at Udacity
Neurochemistry, Psychobiology, Neurochemistry, Psychobiology at San Francisco State University
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at University of Florida
Iranian/Persian Language, Literature, and Linguistics, Iranian/Persian Language, Literature, and Linguistics at Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center
Creative Writing, Creative Writing at University of Colorado Boulder
Albanian, French, Italian, Persian, English, Spanish