John Munson
Head Of Software Development at Drive Social Media
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Munson is a pragmatic software leader with nine years of hands-on experience building and scaling full-stack systems, now leading software development at Drive Social Media. He has deep experience designing REST and GraphQL APIs, microservices, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud migrations—having moved apps from CloudFoundry to AWS Fargate and optimized workloads with ElasticSearch, Kafka, Lambda, and Postgres. Comfortable in both frontend and backend domains, he migrated legacy SPAs to React, maintained production UIs, and fostered testing and observability practices across teams. His background in civil engineering and early career project engineering brings a discipline for schedules, stakeholder coordination, and large-system thinking to software delivery. Known for diagnosing thorny production issues (including tracking down a major memory leak) and estimating cloud spend, he combines technical ownership with pragmatic leadership to ship reliable, cost-aware systems. Based in St. Louis, he blends infrastructure-savvy backend work with UX-minded frontend experience to bridge product and platform needs.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Civil Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Civil Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (200)
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Github contributions (5)
johncmunson/osx-dev-setup
Dec 2017 - Aug 2021
Contributions:55 commits, 51 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
johncmunson/jcm
Mar 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:31 commits, 24 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
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