Operations | Structure: Agro-Tech

After over 20 years as a software engineer, immersed in solving problems with code, I've decided to get my hands a little dirty—literally. But don’t get it twisted, this isn’t a retirement story or a sudden pivot from the keyboard to the cutlass. This is the beginning of a mission: to bring technology and agriculture together in a way that makes a real impact for Jamaica and beyond.

I've always been curious—not just about the latest software frameworks or hardware hacks—but about how things work globally. From the bustling innovation ecosystems of Shenzhen to emerging green-tech solutions across Africa and Latin America, I’ve watched how technology can be a game-changer in agriculture. It’s time to bring that energy home.

We’ll be working with Jamaica’s priority crops, which remain the backbone of food security, cultural heritage, and economic opportunity:

🌱 Root and Tuber Crops

Cassava
Coco
Dasheen
Irish Potato
Sweet Potato
Sweet Yam
Yellow Yam

🍈 Fruits and Tree Crops

Ackee
Breadfruit
Mango
Lime/Lemon

🌶️ Spices and Seasonings

Hot Pepper
Ginger
Turmeric

🧅 Vegetables

Onion

These are not just crops—they’re opportunities for export, agro-processing, value addition, and local food security. We’ll be building the farm with intention: to feed, to trade, and to learn.

But I’m also driven by the kind of questions that engineers love to ask:

What if?
What if we could grow grapes in the tropics—not just as a novelty, but at commercial scale using climate control, data, and controlled environments?
What if Jamaica could produce its own solar-powered cold chains or build local sensor networks to optimize irrigation and pest control?
What if our farmers didn’t need to guess anymore, but could know—from seed to harvest—what’s going right or wrong?

That’s the world I want to help build: where farming is smart, dignified, and tech-enabled, without losing the roots of who we are.

So here we go. From software to soil. From servers to sun-grown crops. One line of code and one plant at a time.

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