Summary
Neil Macmunn is a consulting software engineer in Asheville, NC, bringing 14 years of hands-on leadership and delivery across startups and enterprise environments. He led the shift to modern developer tooling at Bloomberg LP, steering the R+ framework's tooling from an in-house IDE to a Node.js CLI and a Visual Studio Code plugin. As an early member and lead developer at ModernAdvisor, he helped architect a full-stack web service (MySQL, Rails API, AngularJS) that contributed to a $2.2M Series A. His background spans embedded systems and hardware, including co-inventing Geppetto, a patented drag-and-drop embedded system design tool developed at Gumstix. Currently self-employed, he partners with early-stage companies to build MVPs and validate markets, leveraging Node.js, MongoDB, and cloud deployments to ship quickly. He holds a B.A.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering/Mechatronics from the University of Waterloo, reflecting a cross-disciplinary problem-solving foundation.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of Waterloo
English