Cristina M. De Cesare

After earning her Computer Science B.S. at age 19, Cristina spent a few years doing web development at e-commerce companies Chegg, Inc. and AXS.com. She then spent 5 years at the NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), where she eventually became Compute Team Lead for the JPL Airborne Snow Observatory project. At JPL, Cristina was also Mission Interface Lead for the Planetary Data System (PDS) Imaging Node. For PDS, Cristina helped science teams design & produce archival metadata, to ensure usability of image data captured by missions including Juno, InSight, MER, and MSL. At ASO, Inc., Cristina’s web development background and her experience with science data management systems enable her to wear many hats, including: software developer, database admin, systems admin, and data engineer.