# Jeff Munowitch

> Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jeffmunowitch

Experienced software developer with successful roles building both back-end and front-end code. He has worked in the domains of full stack web development, customer facing applications, ETL/Data pipelines, and open source geospatial.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Standard Metrics
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Staff Software Engineer - Product Engineering Team Lead @ Populus
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States
Serve as Technical guide and mentor to members of the Product Engineering team.

Lead multiple customer facing, technology and Developer Experience initiatives:
- Develop guidelines for public facing portions of the application to securely view a restricted set of data.
- Build Restful API patterns for new endpoints, with strategies to prevent excessive resource usage, such as pagination, filtering and sorting options, and return file type options. 
- Work closely with the product team to ensure development timelines and feature development meets business needs.   
- Lead a code dependency audit to discover the level of risk due to unmaintained dependencies and work to replace or remove those dependencies.
- Migrate data processing and analysis out of the frontend for consistency and reliability.
- Lower the number of user reported bugs through an increase in testing, and addressing legacy code that proved to be error prone.
- Implement frontend caching to speed up the user experience through the use of `Tanstack-Query`.
- Modernize the company's web mapping approach by migrating to `react-map-gl`, which allows for lowering the number of reported issues, while abstracting away less pertinent details.

### Senior Frontend Developer - Frontend Team Lead @ Revolution Entertainment Services
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States
Served as Frontend Architect and Frontend Engineering Manager, responsible for interviewing, hiring and guiding the Frontend Team and technology stack

### Full Stack Developer @ Ceres Imaging
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Oakland, CA
Maintain and develop front-end and back-end code for Ceres’ customer facing application, a Vue.js based progressive web app, backed by a Django Rest Framework backend. Work closely with the product team to understand and jointly develop reasonable business specifications for new features.

Launch of a new section of the application: A geometry file uploader that accepts multiple file formats and allows editing the geometry on screen before it enters the backend. Work with internal users to define needs for MVP launch.

Lead a library migration for the customer facing application from the Leaflet mapping library to Mapbox GL JS, to unblock the product roadmap.

Revamped, expanded and optimized Continuous Integration testing methods within CircleCI for customer facing application.

Built CI/CD pipeline for mobile Cordova builds of the customer facing application for quick testing/publishing on the Apple and Google’s app stores.

### Geospatial Developer @ Farallon Geographics
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, California
Develop back-end and front-end code for Arches, a Django and PostGIS based inventory platform implemented with a graph database model. Create API endpoints for programmatic access to complex data structures with focus on permissions and security. Hone existing user interfaces ranging from data model design, permissions management, to data input.

Develop software to effectively collect, manage and display data through a variety of methods, including web, desktop and mobile apps. 

Develop and deploy data pipeline and migration scripts for various public and private sector clients, focused on parcel, address and transportation network data.

### Database and GIS Analyst @ Geosyntec Consultants
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 | Oakland, California
Designed, implemented and maintained databases of field-sampled chemical data. Developed python scripts and workflows for ETL and automated imports. 

Implemented open-source geospatial software to solve individual project needs, including web maps, data aggregation and graphing. Worked on a project team to develop a mobile app for field collection efforts.

### GIS Specialist @ Parsons
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011
- Provide GIS Support including groundwater pollution monitoring figures, data management and data interpolation for reports.
- Created GIS figures and perform spatial analysis in multiple software applications.
- Collaborate with field engineers and geologists to collect data to produce accurate GIS deliverables, manage long term quarterly event data and cater to individual project needs.
- Introduced geo-databases to manage large quantities of analytical data for various projects.


## Education
### B.A. in Geography, Emphasis in Geographic Information Science
UC Santa Barbara


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jmunowitch

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Last updated: 2026-04-05