Eric Lingerfelt is the EarthCube Science Support Office Technical officer and comes to ESSO from Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where he specialized in the design, development, and deployment of full stack application systems in support of multiple areas of scientific research. He is a software engineer, developer, and architect with a background in astrophysics and mathematics, and possesses an expertise integrating intuitive user interfaces, relational databases, advanced visualization technologies, and secure web services with scalable data formats, high performance computing simulations, big data analytics applications, and petabyte-scale storage systems.