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Earth scientist turned full-stack web developer and educator. I'm interested in work across software, scientific computing, AI applications, technical communication, and education.

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Experience

  1. 2022 to now

    Head of Operations and Full-Stack Developer

    First Draft

    • Build and maintain our interactive learning platform in Rails, Hotwire, and PostgreSQL, including a Socratic AI tutor.
    • Code review, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
    • Run day-to-day operations, supervise project management, and write technical, beginner-friendly lesson content.

  2. 2023 to now

    Teaching Assistant, App Dev

    University of Chicago Booth School of Business

    • Teach full-stack web development to business students in one of Booth’s most popular courses (8 sections a year, about 30 students per section).
    • Mentor students through the course and their capstone app projects.

  3. 2023 to now

    Research Scientist (part-time)

    University of Washington

    • Conduct research on high-resolution surface models from optical satellite data.
    • Develop Python tools for processing, statistical quality assessment, and visualization.

  4. 2020 to 2022

    Postdoctoral Researcher and Instructor

    University of Potsdam, Germany

    • Research on remote sensing of earth-surface processes; several peer-reviewed papers and open-source algorithms.
    • Taught Optical Remote Sensing, Data Analysis and Statistics with Python, and Introduction to GIS.

Education

  1. 2020

    Ph.D., Remote Sensing (magna cum laude)

    University of Potsdam

  2. 2016

    M.Sc., Geology

    University of Potsdam

  3. 2013

    B.A., Earth and Environmental Sciences (high honors)

    Wesleyan University

Theses are on the publications page.

Skills

Web
Ruby on Rails, Hotwire, JavaScript, HTML and CSS, PostgreSQL, Django
Scientific computing
Python, GDAL and GIS, photogrammetry, computer vision, image processing, Bash, large-scale data processing
Remote sensing
Optical and radar (SAR) satellite data, stereo DEMs, structure-from-motion, GNSS surveying
Tools
Git, CI/CD, Docker, AWS, Linux

Awards and service

  1. 2021

    SPOT6 Third Party Mission grant, European Space Agency

  2. 2017

    TanDEM-X science grant, German Aerospace Center (DLR)

  3. 2013

    Phi Beta Kappa, Wesleyan University

  4. 2013

    Peirce Prize for Excellence in Geology, Wesleyan University

  5. Ongoing

    Reviewer for JGR, Earth Surface Dynamics, Remote Sensing, and others