Naomi is the Head of Engineering at CTrees, where she leads a growing team of engineers dedicated to building scalable technology for global carbon and forest monitoring. Since joining CTrees in 2023, she has worked across teams to shape product direction and deliver impactful, data-driven tools, playing a pivotal role in launching major technical products such as JMRV and REDD+AI. With over seven years of experience in GIS and software engineering, Naomi previously served as a founding engineer at a startup where she helped bring a social app from concept to launch, and earlier worked on large-scale geospatial data systems with the Bing Maps team at Microsoft. She holds a bachelor’s degree in geography with a focus on GIS Systems and a minor in mathematics from the University of Washington. Having grown up across Thailand and Ecuador, Naomi developed a lifelong appreciation for forests and biodiversity, which continues to inspire her work. Outside of work, she can often be found backpacking or planning her next big hiking adventure, and she enjoys experimenting with new data tools and geospatial technologies at the intersection of nature, data, and software.