Jacob Bandes-storch
Software Engineer at Foxglove
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Bandes-storch is a software engineer with 16 years of experience building user-facing apps and robust back-end systems, currently helping make robotics visualization mainstream at Foxglove from Seattle. He brings deep cross-platform expertise in macOS/iOS, C++ package management, and front-end visualization—evident from impactful contributions to projects like Cruise’s Webviz, the Conan Center Index, and Microsoft’s TypeScript compiler. Jacob’s work spans low-level performance and tooling (clang, mcab/MCAP, rosbridge) to UX polish (GitUp, Swift evolution site, TextMate), showing a rare blend of systems thinking and attention to developer experience. He’s repeatedly improved diagnostics, compression and file I/O, and real-world interoperability (Git LFS, mcap, bag file support), reflecting a pragmatic focus on reliability and tooling that scales. Educated in computer science and mathematics and active in prominent open-source ecosystems, he tends to bridge language and platform boundaries—often by making hard, low-level work visible and usable for application developers.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science and Mathematics, B.S., Computer Science and Mathematics at Harvey Mudd CollegeComputer Science and Mathematics, Computer Science and Mathematics at AIT-BudapestCleveland High School
English, Chinese, Spanish
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Github Skills (125)
dependency-management10
messaging10
package-management10
python10
dependency-analysis10
testing10
websocket10
boolean10
cocoa10
ruby10
coreanimation10
compression10
web-development10
cocoa-touch10
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Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
foxglove/mcap
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
MCAP is a modular, performant, and serialization-agnostic container file format, useful for pub/sub and robotics applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 515 reviews, 176 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the `mcap` file format and its associated tools. Their commits focused on implementing changes to the file format reader and parsing logic, as well as refining the low-level data structures used for file I/O. Their work included changes to compression handling, refactoring of data types, and the addition of new features like file recovery capabilities. These changes reflect a focus on performance, efficiency, and robust file handling for robotics data.
pythondataagnosticrobotics-applicationsperformant
cruise-automation/webviz
Dec 2018 - Apr 2021
web-based visualization libraries
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 37 commits, 67 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily contributed to the front-end of the webviz project, making improvements to the user interface and adding new features. Their work included implementing a GLText command for efficient text rendering, enhancing camera controls, and adding drawing tools to the 3D panel. The user also updated the landing page structure and integrated bz2 decompression support for bag files.
reactjavascriptweb-baseddata-visualizationvisualization
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