Project Lead•Interactive Knowledge•By Neel Vora•

Smithsonian 250th Anniversary Mapping Platform

Lead developer on the Smithsonian's 250th anniversary mapping platform. Refactored a monolithic Drupal module into 11 custom entity types, imported about 21,500 entities from an S3 pipeline, and built 10 Leaflet map views. Launched August 2026.

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