Growlink

Growlink is an agriculture technology company that connects growers to their operations. We build well-designed, tightly integrated hardware and software products that enable you to work smarter, providing wireless automation and control, data collection, monitoring, optimization, and visualization. All on one platform.

VP, Product & Engineering

First Glimpse

First Glimpse is a venture studio supporting impact projects around the world.

Past clients: UNICEF, JP Morgan, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, Google.

Founder

FloEnvy

FloEnvy is the premier software platform for cannabis cultivation, manufacturing, and distribution.

Acquired by Growlink.

Co-Founder & CTO

Zlto

Lead product direction and engineering roadmap for core API, partner analytics, peer-to-peer evaluation protocol and blockchain integrations.

Engineer and Product Lead

Zlto(zlah-toh) is a virtual incentives platform for emerging markets that allows organizations to track and increase positive behavior.

Zlto has processed over 2.5M transactions and served over 3M beneficiaries for clients including UNICEF, JPMorgan, and Naspers.

Co-Founder

Google

Awarded a Google Impact Grant to build a digital wallet for youth in South Africa. 
Wrote initial application and technical proposal (1 of 4 selected from a pool of 1,300 applicants). Collaborated with Google team to launch the product in South Africa & Nigeria.

Impact Grant Recipient

ConsenSys

Built infrastructure to support blockchain applications
• developed peer-to-peer protocols for distributed storage
• wrote and deployed secure smart contracts leveraging containerized infrastructure
• published code to Quorum, J.P. Morgan's Ethereum protocol

Systems Software Engineer

PayPal

Designed machine learning tools for platform services
• conceptualized feature extraction system to automate globalized content pipeline
• implemented NLP classification engine for full stack node/react app used by teams in 20+ countries
• prepared machine learning pipeline for production deployment

Machine Learning Engineer

Massdrop

Deployed live product updates and features for 6M+ active users
• Optimized product ranking and sorting algorithm based on user purchase & clickthrough data
• Built API for redesigned discussion threads 
• Resolved redis cacheing issues and race conditions

Full Stack Engineer

MD Anderson Cancer Center

Identified 2 novel transcription factors for p44 gene, commonly expressed in lung adenocarcinoma

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Triple threat product leader, designer, and software engineer with 10 years of experience building and growing agtech, e-commerce, blockchain, and fintech platforms alongside startup teams and large corporations.

Currently building and scaling Growlink, the leading environmental controls platform supporting thousands of farms around the world. Previously founder at FloEnvy (acquired).

Passionate about open education, relentless iteration, and powerful user experiences.

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