Experience

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

    • Lead Innovation Engineer: R&D and prototyping for upcoming applications (Apr 2025 - present)
    • Lead Frontend Engineer. Established a truly mission-driven frontend team of five engineers, and built an app to display satellite products, enabling climate research and action. (Aug 2020 - Apr 2025)
      • Established and managed team logistics while also maintaining code quality, setting technical direction, and contributing code. Established new features, set milestones, and prioritized tasks for sprints with product and stakeholders.
      • Tech used: Frontend: React, Next.js, TypeScript, deck.gl, MUI, Redux Toolkit, Yarn, Storybook, React Testing Library, Playwright; Backend/Middleware: Node.js, eoAPI (TiTiler, STAC), Python, Mapbox Vector Tiles, Github Actions, COG and GeoJSON file formats.

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

    • Maintained a UI component library, ensuring UI consistency across 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 various frontend projects -

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

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

    • 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. Tech used: jQuery and WebSockets.
      • 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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