Senior Full-stack Product Engineer

Richard Simmons is a highly experienced Senior Full-stack Engineer with a strong product-oriented mindset, demonstrated by 4 years at Toyota managing APIs handling millions of requests and leading UX improvements that cut task completion time by 20% for 2,000+ users. He then founded Zoan Collective, shipping two production apps (FocusFi and Lucid) to iOS and Google Play, processing 1,000+ daily AI interactions, and achieving 80% infrastructure cost reduction and 66% audio generation time reduction. He possesses a keen 'taste' for quality software, focusing on every detail from UI to API responses, and is driven to build and ship products that matter, seeking ownership and impact rather than just being a 'cog'.