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, Computer Software Engineering, Android Developer Nanodegree, Computer Software Engineering at Udacity
Neurochemistry, Psychobiology, Neurochemistry, Psychobiology at San Francisco State University
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at University of Florida
Iranian/Persian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Iranian/Persian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center
Creative Writing, Creative Writing at University of Colorado Boulder
Albanian, French, Italian, Persian, English, Spanish