# John Morone > Connecting Design with Technology Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/johnmorone ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ DOSS Jan 2025 – Present ### Head of Engineering @ Morrow Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Technical Lead (Front End) @ SimpleCircle Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States - Led build of client-side platform from initial design phase to SimpleCircle's acquisition by Arryved. - Ran FE team including hiring, training & mentoring - Regular 1:1’s and design meetings with FE engineers as well as BE engineers working on projects with FE components - Led evolution of best practices and infrastructure to match growing team & business needs - Implemented technical optimizations & new UI patterns to enable scaling to more and larger customers ### Founding Engineer @ SimpleCircle Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States - Joined stealth mode pre-seed, first hire: 0 → ~50 customers. - Built out front-end infrastructure, including purpose-built modular design system & state management. - Stack: React, Typescript, Recoil, PostCSS, Protobuf, Vite, AG Grid - Built out and maintained MVP app for distribution product; advised & supported MVP brewery production app. - Worked with CEO to create & iterate on product requirements, UX flows, & mockups - Worked with CTO & engineering team to develop simple, scalable APIs, best practices, & eng processes ### Senior Frontend Software Engineer @ Intellimize Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Mateo, California, United States - Created comprehensive Changelog for customer data, with filters and breakout views - Helped product team update front-end architecture, style, and best practices ### Member of Technical Staff @ Sisu Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area - Built out design system to accelerate product development velocity, including core style sheets, grid layout engine, components, and documentation. - Updated and established front end best practices and style guides, and mentored teammates. - Led design of team process and schedule for new Product Engineering team; worked closely with manager, and team to refine and establish. ### Senior Front End Software Engineer @ Mastercard Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Arlington, Virginia, United States * APT acquired by Mastercard & integrated into MC Data & Services * Worked with both APT & MC UX teams as well as APT's various product teams to convert platform branding using our recently released design system. ### Front End Software Engineer @ Applied Predictive Technologies Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Washington D.C. Metro Area - Worked across full stack on several web applications, including two from the ground up and several older ones for feature updates, support, and maintenance. - Designed Front End Tech Stack for new web app, including introducing Immer to APT’s production. - Led technical foundations for firm design system, including levels of abstraction, common style infrastructure, gallery, grid system, token infrastructure, & theming. - Part of leadership team (with 4 others) for design system “Proof of Concept” effort, creating and maintaining roadmap, processes, tenets and engineering guidelines, roles, and timeline. ### Photo Editor/Photo Restorer/Social Media Manager @ New York Camera Of Princeton Jan 2014 – Jan 2020 | 173 Nassau St, Princeton, NJ 08542 Scan and restore images from slides, prints, film, and various other photographic mediums. Set up and maintain the company's social media presence on a multitude of platforms. ### Publicity Head @ Princeton Autonomous Vehicle Engineering Jan 2014 – Jan 2020 In charge of recruitment & managing PAVE’s image, including social media ### Software Development Team – Lead on simulator @ Princeton Autonomous Vehicle Engineering (PAVE) Jan 2013 – Jan 2020 | Princeton, NJ Develop an affordable system to automate consumer vehicles. Approach includes computer vision, integrating existing sensors and systems and optimization of low-cost hardware through innovative software. Currently developing a vehicle simulator in the game engine Unity to allow safe full-scale testing of code. ### Intern – Shaders & Web Application Development @ Princeton University Computer Graphics Lab Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Princeton, NJ • Built a real-time interactive web demo that allows users to upload a single portrait photo and virtually reposition the camera based on ongoing research. • Created a WebGL program and shaders to warp portrait images based on a fitted 3D head model. • Designed user experience and interface for RePose web app - monitored usage for trends and bugs. • Decreased runtime of technique from several minutes to a few milliseconds (on laptop hardware). ### Research Intern - CLOUD team @ ASTRI Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Science Park, Hong Kong Design and implement web applications for algorithmic trading and financial prediction services. These applications are responsive and should feel "native" on both mobile and desktop systems without resorting to separate sites/applications. The applications share as much code and design to be easily maintainable for developers and recognizable/intuitive for users. Development stack includes Illustrator/Photoshop (mock-ups and assets), HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap, JQuery, Node.JS, and various other web technologies. ### Intern/Graphic Designer @ TropicalClinics Kakamega Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Kakamega, Kenya Designing promotional/informative items for the clinic such as fliers, handouts and a brochure Designing materials for use by patients and clinic staff such as patient cards and blood type cards Cleaning and optimizing computer systems and network Arranging and working various outreach events throughout the Kakamega area ### Graphic/Web Designer @ Hole in One Golf Clubs Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 Writing Photoshop Macros to automatically edit photos of golf club components and create renders of full clubs from any combination of components Designing and prototyping various looks for the company image and web experience ### Graphic/Web Designer @ Fix Your Fone Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 Creating branding and promotional items, including a logo, fliers, and web assets (images, layouts, animations) ## Education ### Computer Science Princeton University ### Brick Township High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/john-morone --- Source: https://flows.cv/johnmorone JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/johnmorone/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-10