Our Team

Sasha is a senior backend software engineer for MethaneSAT. He has a background in computational mathematics, and has previously worked in computer graphics (Techsoft3D), data processing pipelines (Google Poly), and computer vision (Google Lens).

Emma is a frontend software engineer for MethaneSAT. Previously, she worked as a fullstack engineer at Tembo and PowerSchool, developing public data-reporting tools for state & local education agencies. In addition to her engineering experience, she brings a background in field biology and environmental education.

Liz joined MethaneSAT in 2025 as a Software Engineer. She has a background in linguistics and most recently worked at Florida Blue, working across four UI applications for the enrollment team.

Carlos is a software engineer focused on the back end of MethaneSAT’s Data Platform. Previously, Carlos was at Google, where he combined his knowledge of photography and software engineering to ensure that Google Maps had the best user-contributed photos possible. Additionally, Carlos has held engineering and leadership roles at Skybox Imaging, Yahoo! and Qualcomm.

Will Furstenau plays a key role in designing and optimizing scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure to help ensure the success of the company’s mission. He joins us from Goldman Sachs, at which he helped manage systems that provided automated retirement advice for thousands of clients daily.

George is a senior backend software engineer on MethaneSAT's Data Platform team. He brings a background in building highly scalable, cloud-based distributed systems. Before joining MethaneSAT, George held roles spanning engineering management, technical leadership, and co-founding engineer.

Chris is a software engineer focused on MethaneSAT's data processing pipeline. He brings extensive experience developing cloud services. In addition, Chris has worked on geographic information systems (VertGIS) and has led security & privacy engineering efforts at multiple organizations.

Susan is the Senior Product Manager for MethaneSAT. After transitioning from the semiconductor industry into the clean tech industry, Susan held engineering positions testing and developing laser analyzers for environmental applications. Most recently she worked as a product leader managing the design and development of a hand-held methane leak detection solution.

Nick LoFaso is leading our data pipeline efforts, working closely with our partners at Harvard University. In his previous role at Lutron Electronics, Nick led development of a cloud-based service to allow programmable control of various lighting components. Nick has also held engineering positions at Red-Spark (advertising tech) and Lockheed-Martin.

Courtney is a full stack software engineer for MethaneSAT. In her previous role, she helped launch the Google Solar API in an effort to accelerate residential solar panel installations. While at Google, she also worked on Google Maps and Street View.

Tom is leading the development of MethaneSAT's Data Platform, transforming sensor bits into actionable analytics. Before joining MethaneSAT, Tom was Technical Lead/Manager of the Geo Imagery Analytics infrastructure team at Google, where he led the development of scalable, fault-tolerant services to process, store and serve core metrics like oil tank volumes and car counts. Tom has also held senior engineering roles in Open Source and Cloud Commerce (Google), Big Data (Skybox Imaging) and near-real-time content delivery (Yahoo!).

Marcus is a software engineer working on MethaneSAT’s data processing pipeline. His background is in computer science and infectious disease modeling. He brings extensive experience productionizing scientific computing workflows and building near-real-time modeling platforms, and has worked on Bayesian statistical inference and other simulation models.

Ravi is a Senior Software Engineer at MethaneSAT, focusing on building tools to visualize and act on methane emissions data. With a background spanning ecology, medicine, and full-stack software development, he brings a mission-driven, interdisciplinary approach to climate tech, and is passionate about using technology for public good.

Following a career as an admin assistant in the legal and educational fields, Kat attended a Software Bootcamp to expand her skills and change careers. MethaneSAT is her first foray in the world of software engineering.

Justin Tyberg is building out the cloud infrastructure that will host both the MethaneSAT data processing pipeline and the data products. Justin has built and managed cloud infrastructure across multiple cloud providers for several companies. He also has experience in software development, data science, and aerospace engineering.

Tom is an algorithms software engineer working on the MethaneSAT data processing pipeline. With a background in theoretical physics, he brings expertise in both analytical and numerical techniques.  Having worked as a software engineer, he also has experience producing reliable, documented, and tested software.

Julio recently graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Northwestern University and took on a software engineering internship with MethaneSAT following graduation. Now a Front-End Software Apprentice, he works on the UI for the data platform.