Marco Botton Email Address

Super-duper Coder

Balsamiq is a solid, independent little software company.

Talented software developer with inclination to excellence. :-) Acute mind always hungry. Solid background in computer science. In 2009 I become the first employee of Balsamiq, the best software company in the world. Since then, I contributed heavily to the development of Balsamiq Mockups, the famous tool to make UI wireframes, available as a desktop application as well as plugin for several web services. Currently, I lead the development of the next generation of Balsamiq Mockups. Starting with a team of two people and slowly growing to five, we rewrote the Flash-based code from the ground up, to make native apps on multiple platforms (web browsers, iOS, macOS, Windows) using a mix of common Javascript code and platform specific code. Simply beautiful. :-) Formerly, I have been Senior C/C++ engineer in the R&D team of a software company in CAD market. Millions of lines of code, a complex architecture, a traditional company structure with a rigid process. Six years there made me strong. In my little spare time, I pretend to be macOS and iOS developer for fun. In 2012 I released an iPhone app for children called Printy that received positive reviews. Everything, from the concept, to the UX, to the implementation, to the graphics, was made by me. In 2015 I stopped it because I could not work on it any more. Specialties: multiplatform software development, designing clean object models, designing APIs, building rock-solid code, diving in large codebases, polishing the UI, project and team management. Languages and technologies: iOS, macOS, Objective C, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, React, node.js, SQLite, C/C++, C#, Windows, ActionScript, Adobe Flex, real time collaboration, vector graphics, application frameworks.