James Munsch
Senior Product Engineer at North American Bancard
Biwabik, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Munsch is a Senior Product Engineer with eight years of experience building cloud-native, production-grade systems that span Go backends, FastAPI services, Kubernetes, and ML infrastructure. Based in Minnesota, he currently architects retrieval-augmented generation and Vertex AI deployments with Qdrant, Snowflake, Ray, and Terraform at North American Bancard, blending ML infra with robust engineering practices. His open-source work includes meaningful contributions to OpenBazaar's Go daemon and a FastAPI code generator, showing a knack for improving protocol validation and reliable code generation. Trained as a painter and a software engineer, James brings a creative problem-solving sensibility to technical design and process efficiency. He’s equally comfortable refactoring distributed systems as he is shipping developer tooling that increases test coverage and maintainability.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at MakerSquare - School of Software EngineeringNorth Dakota State UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Painting, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Painting at Minnesota State University Moorhead
Github Skills (13)
fastapi10
generator10
go10
api10
pydantic10
backend10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
python10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
openapi10
testing10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
OpenBazaar/openbazaar-go
Sep 2018 - Oct 2018
OpenBazaar 2.0 Server Daemon in Go
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 6 PRs, 9 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on enhancing the core functionality of the OpenBazaar 2.0 server daemon written in Go. Their commits involve refactoring code related to shipping regions and country codes, including validation logic and protobuf alias support. The user also introduced new factory functions for creating shipping region listings and added associated tests, demonstrating a focus on improving the listing and shipping options management.
golangdaemonopenbazaar
koxudaxi/fastapi-code-generator
May 2021 - May 2021
This code generator creates FastAPI app from an openapi file.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 17 days
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of a code generator for FastAPI applications. Their contributions included implementing features related to parameter handling in API definitions, specifically addressing 'in' operators for query, path, header, body, and form parameters. The user also worked on fixing tests related to the generated code. Further contributions were centered around resolving issues related to test coverage, ensuring robust code generation.
pythonpydanticcode-generatorfastapiopenapi-generator
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