Experience

  1. Author/Hiker: Completed the Appalachian Trail and currently writing a book about the experience

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

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    • Created and led a team of five frontend engineers, established and managed team logistics and codebase, set technical and feature direction. Set milestones and prioritized tasks for sprints with the product team and stakeholders.
    • Architected Portal, a web app visualizing terabytes of satellite data to uncover the location and magnitude of worldwide methane leaks.
    • Maintained and improved UN's IMEO/MARS internal web apps to detect methane leaks and notify governments and companies, resulting in mitigation of hundreds of leaks.
    • Core tech: 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/Misc: React Testing Library, Playwright, Terraform, Node.js, Github Actions, MUI, Redux Toolkit, Storybook.
  3. Hiker: Appalachian Trail and Job Search

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

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    • Maintained a UI component library and ensured 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.
  5. Webmocha - Web Developer working on frontend projects (Remote, Concurrent Part Time Work)

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    • Created a dashboard which saved hours of time curating a weekly frontend tech newsletter by automatically ingesting relevant links from Twitter and Pocket (React.js, Node.js, Redis).
    • Developed and updated Wordpress-based websites for small businesses.
  6. Skybox Imaging (acquired by Google) - Software Engineer building satellite operations tools (Mountain View, CA)

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    • Implemented an imagery processing dashboard to give internal teams better visibility into in-progress imagery processing, using Node.js and Socket.io.
    • Built pioneering real-time telemetry monitoring in a conventional web app, eliminating the need for traditional proprietary ground software.
    • Developed and maintained several map-based apps to demo product potential (jQuery, Leaflet, satellite.js, Bootstrap) (part-time remote contract role).

Talks & Presentations

Education