Embedded frontend engineering for end-to-end reforestation management platform.

Terraformation is a climate technology company working to restore the world's forests at scale. The company develops Terraware, an end-to-end reforestation management platform used by project teams and funders to plan, execute, monitor, and report on restoration efforts worldwide.

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Problem

Terraformation was founded on a clear premise: restoring the world's forests is one of the most impactful responses to the climate crisis, but doing it at scale requires serious software. The company set out to build Terraware, a platform designed to manage reforestation projects from end to end — tracking seed collection, nursery operations, planting activities, survival rates, and carbon sequestration within a single system used by both field teams and funders. The challenge was not just building something functional. Reforestation projects are complex operations that span years, involve dozens of interlocking workflows, and require visibility for multiple stakeholders simultaneously — field crews using mobile devices in remote locations, project managers monitoring progress, and funders who need structured reporting to evaluate outcomes. Building a platform capable of serving all of those users, while continuously adding features without degrading the experience for any of them, required sustained and deeply familiar engineering investment. Terraformation also faced the challenge of a rapidly evolving product. Priorities shifted as the organization grew — most significantly when the Accelerator Program was introduced, requiring a pause on existing roadmap items to build an entirely new application flow inside Terraware. A product this dynamic requires engineers who can operate effectively in that environment: capable of shipping complex new features, maintaining a maturing codebase, and handling major architectural upgrades as the platform scales.

Approach

Admios placed a frontend engineer embedded directly with the Terraformation product team — an engagement that has now spanned nearly six years. Working alongside Terraformation's engineers through every phase of the platform's evolution, we have contributed to both the features that users interact with and the infrastructure that keeps the system maintainable as it grows. The engagement began with the scroll-driven marketing site that launched Terraformation's public presence — a technically demanding project built with React, Lottie, and a Contentful headless CMS, designed to deliver an Apple-like animated experience while preserving fast load times and strong SEO performance. As Terraware matured into Terraformation's core operational platform, our work shifted to the features that make it functional at scale. Our contributions include structured reports with photo uploads and rich text, advanced mapping views, matrix data displays, dashboards for funder visibility, activity logs, media uploads, and a document producer for structured project reporting. More recently we have contributed to updated monitoring and evaluation (M&E) reporting features, 3D virtual plot visualization, and enhanced plant monitoring tools. In parallel with product work, we have led and contributed to significant infrastructure investments: React version upgrades, state management and testing framework migrations, linting improvements, a migration from CRACO to Rsbuild, and adoption of the React compiler. These are the kinds of ongoing investments that keep a platform performant and maintainable as it scales — and they require the same engineering depth as the features themselves.

Results

Terraware has grown from a seed management tool into a comprehensive reforestation management platform — used daily by field teams on mobile and by project managers and funders through web-based dashboards. It now supports the full project lifecycle: seed collection, nursery management, planting operations, survival and biomass monitoring, and structured carbon reporting. The platform's monitoring and evaluation features allow project teams to document outcomes with the rigor required for carbon credit verification and impact measurement — giving funders the real-time visibility that serious climate investment demands. Features like the document producer and structured reporting tools mean that data collected in the field translates directly into the reports that drive funding decisions. The most direct measure of the engagement's success is its duration. We have been embedded with the Terraformation team for nearly six years — long enough to have contributed to every significant phase of the platform's evolution, from its public-facing launch to its current role as the operational backbone of large-scale restoration projects across multiple geographies. That kind of continuity produces something a short-term engagement cannot: an engineer who understands the system as deeply as the core team, trusted to make architectural decisions alongside them. Terraformation's mission spans some of the most difficult terrain in climate technology — restoring degraded ecosystems at scale, over decades, in places where infrastructure is scarce. Terraware is what makes that manageable. Admios's contribution has been keeping that tool sharp.

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Industry

Climate Technology / Environmental Impact

Company Size

15

Dev Team Size

2

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Full reforestation lifecycle — seed to carbon report

6-year continuous engagement

Field-to-funder visibility in a single platform

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