Summary
Valerie Houseman is a Senior Staff Engineer who designs and scales data systems at the intersection of science and software, currently accelerating agricultural insights at Inari. Based in Denver, Colorado, she has built and operated geospatial and data pipelines across Climate Corporation, Monsanto, and Planet, turning satellite imagery and genomic data into actionable products. Her work spans AWS-based deployments, Kubernetes-driven pipelines, and cloud-native architectures that emphasize reliability, reproducibility, and data integrity at scale. Valerie loves deep troubleshooting, data visualization, and turning messy data into usable intelligence, often scaling systems to meet new volumes. Outside of hands-on engineering, she mentors aspiring developers in St. Louis, lowering barriers to entry and helping others translate curiosity into production-ready software.
10 years of coding experience