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Our Team

We have experts from leading institutions worldwide working together to ensure the mission's success.

We are grateful to the supporters who made this project possible.

  • Arnold Ventures
  • The Audacious Project
  • Ballmer Group
  • D N Batten Foundation
  • The Benificus Foundation
  • Bezos Earth Fund
  • Christina and Jeffrey Bird
  • Builders Vision
  • Catena Foundation
  • The Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Foundation
  • The Children's Investment Fund Foundation
  • J and Suzanne Crandall
  • Rachel Crane
  • John S. Curry
  • Aart de Geus and Esther John
  • Duff & Phelps Charitable Foundation
  • Tony Fadell
  • Global Methane Hub
  • Google
  • Bev Grant
  • Heising-Simons Family Fund
  • Barbara and Amos Hostetter
  • King Philanthropies
  • The Lemelson Foundation
  • Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
  • Julie and Ian McGuire
  • The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation
  • New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment
  • Charles M. Nunzio
  • Bill and Susan Oberndorf Foundation
  • Pat and Patti O'Donnell
  • Signe Ostby and Scott Cook
  • The Parke Family
  • Quadrivium Foundation
  • Robertson Foundation
  • Ted and Linda Schlein
  • Skoll Foundation
  • Skyline Foundation
  • Three Cairns Group
  • Three Graces Foundation
  • Valhalla Foundation
  • Andrew W. Verhalen
  • Sue Wagner and Neal Leonard
  • Zegar Family Foundation
  • Anonymous Donors

Meet the team

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Sasha Ayvazov
Senior Back End Engineer, MethaneSAT

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).

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Emma Bishop
Senior Front End Software Engineer, MethaneSAT

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.

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Liz Bossley
Software Engineer, MethaneSAT

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.

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Carlos Cervantes
Senior Back End Engineer, MethaneSAT

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.

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Will Furstenau
Senior Cloud Engineer, MethaneSAT

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.

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George Gov
Senior Back End Software Engineer, MethaneSAT

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.

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Chris Hairfield
Senior Back End Software Engineer, MethaneSAT

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.

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Susan Kasper
Senior Product Manager, MethaneSAT

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.

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Nicholas Lofaso
Staff Software Engineer, MethaneSAT

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.

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Courtney Maimom
Senior Front End Software Engineer, MethaneSAT

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.

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Tom Melendez
Senior Director, Engineering & Data Products, MethaneSAT

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!).

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Marcus Russi
Algorithms Software Engineer, MethaneSAT

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.

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Ravi Savajiyani
Senior Front End Software Engineer, MethaneSAT

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.

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Kat Sundquist
Software Apprentice, MethaneSAT

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.

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Justin Tyberg
Staff Infrastructure Software Engineer, MethaneSAT

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.

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Dr. Tom Veness
Algorithms Software Engineer, MethaneSAT

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.

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Julio Villanueva
Front End Software Apprentice, MethaneSAT

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.