John Porter Simons
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorJohn Simons is a versatile software engineer and entrepreneur with 13 years of experience building front-end systems for major tech companies and consumer products. He’s shipped high-impact features at Apple (contributing to Apple Music Sing), modernized frontend architectures at Amazon and OfferUp, and drove Cloud Console UI work at Google, showing deep expertise in React, Svelte, isomorphic rendering, and build systems. His career path—from game development to graphic design to web engineering and even a stint in painting and a small business owner—gives him a pragmatic, design-minded approach to shipping polished user experiences. Comfortable owning both UI microinteractions and service-level responsibilities, he’s repeatedly bridged product, performance, and platform needs. Based in Seattle, he pairs a B.S. in Computer Engineering with hands-on curiosity and a history of prototyping inventive UI components across large-scale consumer sites.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (1)
plovr8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
bolinfest/plovr
Sep 2012 - Mar 2015
plovr: a Closure build tool
Contributions:3 commits in 2 years 7 months
plovr
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