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Ed Olivares Raniolo

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5+ years shipping production systems for NASA Earth science platforms and U.S. Department of Defense mission software. Seattle, WA.

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Experience

Full-stack development, search and metadata systems, and production operations for scientific and mission-critical users.

Software Engineer — Innovim / Raytheon (NASA EOSDIS)

May 2022 – Present

TypeScript / JavaScript React GraphQL OpenLayers Electron Clojure MCP LLM tooling Elasticsearch / OpenSearch Neptune (Gremlin) PostgreSQL / Oracle AWS CDK Terraform Docker GitHub Actions Splunk Scrum / CI/CD
  • Led development of an MCP-based metadata validation system exposing data quality and remediation tools to LLM agents, improving metadata accuracy and search reliability across NASA Earth science datasets.
  • Developed and supported production AI-enabled search features for Earthdata Search, including natural language query decomposition over large-scale geospatial metadata indexed in OpenSearch.
  • Owned production debugging and support for NASA Earthdata Search, working directly with scientists, DAAC engineers, and internal stakeholders via Splunk and Zendesk to triage and resolve incidents.
  • Served as primary technical facilitator between NASA DAAC organizations and the engineering team, coordinating requirements, issue resolution, and system behavior across distributed stakeholders.
  • Migrated the legacy geospatial frontend from Leaflet to OpenLayers and modernized state management from Redux to Zustand.
  • Designed and extended federated GraphQL APIs integrating multiple backend services, including graph-based relationships in Amazon Neptune (Gremlin).
  • Built and shipped an Electron-based download manager with 100k+ downloads.
  • Scrum Master for a 10-person distributed team, improving delivery velocity through CI/CD guardrails and GitHub Actions automation.

Computer Scientist — 558th Software Engineering Squadron, U.S. Air Force

May 2020 – May 2022 · Tinker AFB

Python C++ Java Hardware-in-the-loop testing Datalink / sensor integration
  • Developed and maintained mission-critical software for airborne command-and-control systems (E-3 Sentry), including datalink processing, sensor integration, and tactical mission interfaces.
  • Built Python-based test automation for hardware-in-the-loop and virtualized environments, reducing manual validation effort and improving test consistency.
  • Supported integration and validation of mission software updates across operational systems.
  • Contributed to C++ and Java system components for mission planning and tactical display systems.

B.S. Computer Science — University of North Dakota

Education

3.9 GPA SMART Scholarship
  • Graduated with a 3.9 GPA.
  • Awarded the U.S. Department of Defense SMART Scholarship.