Summary
John Ngoi is a senior software engineering manager and founder with 11+ years of experience building billion-dollar platforms, rebooting award-winning mobile apps, and helping companies achieve multi-billion dollar exits. Based in San Francisco, he blends hands-on engineering (Swift/iOS, Python, ML/AI, AWS, Kubernetes) with product leadership and operational rigor, often reducing operational liabilities and improving compliance at scale. A pragmatic perfectionist and coach, he creates engineering and product cultures that emphasize user empathy, developer happiness, and the courage to say “I don’t know.” He has driven transformative projects—from Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s native app relaunches to a widely loved Maps+ platform that earned an innovation award and a provisional patent. As a founder and mentor, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with deep technical craft, and his foundational code has likely executed in production billions of times.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Engineering, Bachelor, Computer Engineering at Iowa State University
Computer Science, Machine Learning, AI, Computer Science, Machine Learning, AI at Stanford University