Experience

  1. MethaneSAT - Lead Innovation Engineer (Remote) building tools for climate research and action

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    • Lead Innovation Engineer (Apr 2025 - Feb 2026): part time work on applications to enable the UN to send methane alerts to governments and companies (IMEO/MARS)
    • Lead Frontend Engineer (Aug 2020 - Apr 2025): Created and led a frontend team of five engineers, and built an app to display satellite products necessary for climate research and action, visualizing terabytes of satellite data. The MethaneSAT Portal now displays hundreds of methane datasets for expert and nonexpert users around the world.
      • Established and managed team logistics and codebase, setting technical and feature direction. Established new features, set milestones, and prioritized tasks for sprints with product and stakeholders.
      • Tech used:
        • Core: React, TypeScript, Next.js, Yarn workspace monorepo architecture
        • Data/GIS: deck.gl, Mapbox and Google Maps, eoAPI (TiTiler, STAC), Mapbox Vector Tiles, COG and GeoJSON
        • Tooling: React Testing Library, Playwright, Terraform, Node.js, Github Actions
        • Other: MUI, Redux Toolkit, Storybook

  2. Netflix - UI Consultant (Los Gatos, CA) building B2B apps

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    • Maintained a UI component library, ensuring UI consistency across multiple B2B apps (Node.js, React.js, Redux, RXJS, Material UI).
    • Worked closely with QA, and developed an ESLint plugin to help make code test-friendly.

  3. Webmocha - Web Developer (Remote, Part Time) working on frontend projects

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    • Created a dashboard which greatly sped up curation of a weekly frontend tech newsletter (ingesting data from Twitter and Pocket).
    • Added and updated Wordpress-based websites for businesses.
    • React.js, Node.js, Redis, Wordpress

  4. Skybox Imaging and Google - Software Engineer (Mountain View, CA)

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    • Frontend engineer (Aug 2013 - Mar 2016) building satellite operations tools
      • Built a dashboard to help internal teams track imagery product lifecycle, using Node.js and Socket.io.
      • Built real-time telemetry monitoring accessible with conventional web technology, making it easier to hire a team of developers and also eliminated the need for proprietary ground software.
      • Started migration to Google infrastructure post-acquisition.
    • Part time remote contract (May 2012 - August 2013)
      • Developed and maintained several map-based apps to demo product potential (jQuery, Leaflet, satellite.js, Bootstrap).

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Education