NASA · 2017–2025
NASA Earth Observatory
A flagship NASA science communication platform serving 1.5M+ monthly visitors — rebuilt for editorial velocity, performance, and long-term maintainability.
My role Lead engineer — owned the platform re-architecture and publishing pipeline, and set the frontend performance and accessibility standards.
1.5M+
Monthly visitors
25+
Years platform evolution
Unified editorial workflows across distributed teams with less custom engineering per story.
Problem
- Editorial teams relied on brittle, one-off publishing patterns that slowed routine story production.
- Performance, accessibility, and SEO debt accumulated as traffic and content volume grew.
- Distributed content teams needed a shared workflow without engineering becoming the bottleneck.
Approach
- Redesigned the information architecture and publishing model around repeatable story templates.
- Rebuilt delivery pipelines for large imagery, metadata consistency, and non-engineer self-service.
- Improved frontend performance, accessibility compliance, and search discoverability as first-class requirements.
Outcome
- Unified editorial workflows across distributed teams with less custom engineering per story.
- Strengthened platform performance and accessibility for a high-traffic public science audience.
- Created a maintainable foundation for ongoing Earth science communication at scale.
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