As a scientific programmer and systems engineer in the Data Management and Cyberinfrastructure (DMAC) group at the Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS), my job involves data management as well as programming and development of Web interfaces and other applications and services that provide scientific oceanographic data from a variety of sources, including remote sensing, forecast models, and in situ observations (buoys, moorings, gliders, etc.)⁠—leveraging OPeNDAP technologies like THREDDS and ERDDAP to do so. Given my experience with Open Source Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) web services, I also work on projects related to online data visualization, mapping, and distribution via JavaScript and Python driven applications. I enjoy making complex scientific geospatial data easier to access, use, and understand, and strive to bridge the gap between science and the general public. Over the years, I have also worked substantially with various geospatial metadata standards (ISO-19115) and catalogs (CSW), helping to write, validate, translate, broker, and display our metadata holdings to aid users and applications in the search, discovery, and acquisition of our various and disparate data set holdings.