Alyssa Kaewwilai is a Software Engineer I for Raytheon Technologies supporting NASA's Earth System Data and Information System (ESDIS) while simultaneously working to earn her graduate degree in Systems Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. As a member of NASA’s Science Data Processing Team (SDPS) within the Intelligence and Space sector, Kaewwilai focuses her work on database administration, mode management, regression testing, and data ingest.
Alyssa has supported a number of NASA's projects by developing software, cloud-based databases, and other tools to enhance the discovery of earth science data. For Alyssa's first internship at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, she worked on the Earthdata Search tool within EOSDIS to aid NASA's public satellite file database. Kaewwilai later returned to NASA to help create a mobile application to support a worldwide science and education program, making it possible for educators, students, and individuals to contribute to NASA's data collection.
After a subsequent internship at Raytheon Technologies, Alyssa permanently joined the SDPS team. Kaewwilai is an Amazon Web Services Certified Cloud Practitioner and a Federal Aviation Administration UAS pilot. In the past, Alyssa has conducted research projects ranging from utilizing NASA's ICESat-2 satellite to examine sea ice change to incorporating MODIS data to evaluate the Australian bushfire event. During Kaewwilai’s senior year at Gettysburg College, she published her first research paper, Analysis of Flood Patterns in Adams County, Pennsylvania Utilizing Drone Technology and Computer Numerical Controls in the Pennsylvania Geographer Journal. Alyssa is now a frequent attendee of technology/scientific conferences and loves to present her research to others.
As a first-generation, Thai-American, female STEM scholar Alyssa learned to overcome adversity and turn that skill into one of her greatest strengths. As Kaewwilai commonly states:
"Whoever said the sky is the limit was most certainly wrong for not even space can cap our potential!”
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Twitter: @Akaewal