Frustrated with the lack of options on the market for monitoring and controlling farm equipment like irrigation systems, dad asked us if we could come up with a solution.
Over the next few months, we assembled ten working prototypes and coded the basic cloud infrastructure for the first version of FarmHQ. We installed the FarmHQ prototypes on four of our farm’s irrigation reels, three mobile, Diesel-powered water pumps, and three stationary, electric water pumps. Two different irrigation teams tested FarmHQ under a variety of different conditions throughout the growing season, providing a constant stream of feedback that we used to improve the devices and the code on an almost daily basis.
By the end of the season, everyone involved agreed: we needed FarmHQ on all of our irrigation equipment for the next season, and we were pretty sure that other farmers needed it as well.
David received his Ph.D. in Solid State Chemistry from Johns Hopkins University in 2015. He spent four years working as a Sr. Data Scientist at Amazon.com before leaving to join Wallace Farms and start CODA in 2019.
Connor graduated from Reed College with a degree in Physics in 2013. He has worked as a Full-Stack Software Engineer for multiple tech companies in Portland and San Francisco. Recently, Connor hiked more than 2,000 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail!
Dan discovered his passion for programming while working as a math teacher and spent several years as a hobbyist programmer before beginning his formal studies in Computer Science at South Seattle College. Dan joined the team as our lead front-end developer in 2020.
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