Johnny Domino
Research Engineer
I like turning product ideas into charming software.
2025 – Present
Chief
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.
2021 – 2022
Principal Full-Stack Engineer
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
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
Focus
- Developer Tools
- On-Device Inference
- Apple Platforms
- Product Engineering
- Search & Indexing
- Media Systems
- Data Products
- Design Systems
Tools
- TypeScript
- Swift
- SwiftUI
- Core ML
- MLX
- Xcode
- React
- Qwik
- Next.js
- Ember.js
- LitElement
- Playwright
- TailwindCSS
- Node.js
- Go
- Rust
- ffmpeg
- PostgreSQL
- PocketBase
- Tantivy
- Cloudflare
- AWS
- GKE
- Figma
