Sandro Munda
Founder & CEO at Forest Admin
Liege Metropolitan Area Belgium
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Top SchoolSandro Munda is a serial founder and software engineer with 14 years of experience building developer-first governance and back-office infrastructure for enterprises. As Founder & CEO of Forest Admin (2015–2025) and now leading RootCX and serving on Forest Admin’s board, he blends hands-on backend engineering with product-led company building. He authored key open-source tooling—like a popular JSON:API serializer and the Lumber installer—that streamline data serialization and fast deployment of admin UIs. Based in Liège, Belgium, Sandro is known for turning complex database schemas and integrations into pragmatic, secure admin experiences and for obsessing over productivity and operational excellence.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at HEPL - Haute Ecole de la Province de Liège
English, French
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Github Skills (43)
javascript10
serializable10
serializer10
back-end-development10
testing10
linux10
json-api10
ubuntu10
serialization10
deserialization10
sailsjs10
activerecord10
nodejs10
backend10
curl10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ForestAdmin/lumber
Oct 2016 - Jun 2021
Install Forest Admin in minutes.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 releases, 203 commits, 45 PRs in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Sandro was primarily focused on developing the core functionality of the Lumber project, a tool for generating back-office applications. Their work involved the creation of the admin microservice, including database connection details, project name configuration, and handling database schema analysis. The user also made improvements to MySQL foreign key detection, added SSL database connection options, and addressed various connection-related issues.
lumberadminframeworkbackendnodejs
SeyZ/jsonapi-serializer
Jun 2015 - Jan 2023
A Node.js framework agnostic library for (de)serializing your data to JSON API
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 releases, 189 commits, 65 PRs in 7 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Sandro initiated the JSON API Serializer library, focusing on serializing and deserializing data to the JSON API format. They implemented the core functionality for serializing data, handling various data types, including nested objects and arrays, and adding support for relationships. The user added tests to validate the serializer's behavior across different data structures and implemented features to override the default self link and ID fields. Refactoring and adding links to the documents were also part of their contributions.
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