Research Engineer (ML & Backend) | Part-Time · Huntsville, AL
- Drove a 30% increase in data delivery speed to clients through the implementation of the new Tasking Management System, significantly improving data ingestion and request handling for the NASA CSDA program.
- Initiated and built an agent-based data search project leveraging LLMs with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) using LangChain and LangGraph, enabling users to intelligently search and retrieve specific data from a massive STAC metadata catalog.
- Developed a RAG-based automatic metadata file generator for the CSDA program, utilizing local LLM models with Weaviate and ChromaDB as vector databases and maintaining a knowledge graph for NASA Spatiotemporal Asset Catalog compliance.
- Managed scalable infrastructure across AWS (S3, EC2, RDS, Lambda, Step Functions) to ensure a robust and highly available system using technologies including Next.js and FastAPI.
- Implemented data ingestion pipelines for new vendors, including Satellogic and Maxar DEM, within the CSDA system.
- Developed and pioneered the new NASA CSDA tasking management system, utilizing a Django/Airflow backend and a React and TypeScript frontend to manage commercial satellite data requests and ingestion.
Project: Data Acquisition Request SystemAbout NASA IMPACT
