Johnny Domino

Johnny Domino

Research Engineer

I like turning product ideas into charming software.

Nov 2025 – Present

Pixel Brite

Built a private media platform across web, iOS, macOS, and tvOS.

Oct 2025 – Present

Poolometer

Built a pool-care app for logging water tests, calculating doses, tracking maintenance, and guiding owners through troubleshooting and equipment playbooks.

2025 – Present

Bible Babel, Tanakh Time

Building offline SwiftUI scripture readers with bespoke translations, read-aloud, and verse explanations.

2025 – Present

Founder & Product Engineer

Wabi Sabi Ware LLC

Independent software studio shipping consumer products across the web and Apple platforms.

2023 – 2025

Founding Engineer

Outerbase (Acquired by Cloudflare)

Shipped the main web app for an AI-native database platform, architected EZQL, and built major frontend surfaces for data browsing, queries, dashboards, embeds, onboarding, plugins, and billing.

2022 – Present

Founder / Engineer / Designer

Ketamine Games

Medical applications maximizing clinical outcomes for patients suffering from severe depression and anxiety.

2021 – 2022

Principal Full-Stack Engineer

Volition

Delivered product surfaces, backend services, and GKE crawlers across frontend workflows, APIs, data ingestion, and infrastructure.

2014 – 2020

Lead Full-Stack Engineer

Heroku (Salesforce)

Modernized major customer-facing Heroku dashboard and status surfaces, shipped realtime operational workflows, and handled product implementation, mentoring, and production on-call.

2011 – 2014

Director of Architecture

Branding Brand

Grew from frontend engineer to architecture lead while staying hands-on, leading a 10-person team, and shipping mobile commerce products for Costco, Ralph Lauren, Kroger, American Eagle, and more.

2010 – 2011

Full-Stack Engineer

UPMC Technology Development Center

Led R&D projects inside the UPMC Technology Development Center.

2010 – 2011

Lead Software Engineer

Chogger · Pittsburgh, PA

Built the Ruby on Rails backend for a comic strip creation platform. Contributed to the frontend Flex application.

May – June 2009

Cocoa Camper

Apple · Cupertino, CA

Selected for Apple University's experimental Cocoa Camp. Intensive training in iOS development taught by Apple engineers.

Summer 2008

Computer Science Co-Op

FAA Technical Center · Egg Harbor Township, NJ

Ported a C-based flight simulator to Java. Applied object-oriented design principles to improve code maintainability.

Summer 2006

Sales Associate

Victoria's Secret · Altoona, PA

Delivered customer-focused retail experiences.

Education

Carnegie Mellon University

B.S. Computer Science

Minor in Multimedia Production

Focus & Tools

Developer ToolsOn-Device InferenceApple PlatformsProduct EngineeringSearch & IndexingMedia SystemsData ProductsDesign Systems TypeScriptSwiftSwiftUICore MLMLXXcodeReactQwikNext.jsEmber.jsLitElementPlaywrightTailwindCSSNode.jsGoRustffmpegPostgreSQLPocketBaseTantivyCloudflareAWSGKEFigma