- i'm zach brown.
- coder, social entrepreneur, dad of two
- global nomad, currently bouncing between africa 🇿🇲 and asia 🇵🇭 🇯🇵
- @past, just stepped down from a role running vmware tanzu labs' asia pacific devops practice
- @present, cto and cofounder of a tokyo-based climate finance startup
- @future, improving the livelihood of smallholder rice farmers in southeast asia and beyond
< stuff i ❤ />
- the outdoors, hiking, wildlife safaris
- exploring africa and southeast asia / some recent faves => [zanzibar 🇹🇿, chobe 🇧🇼, angkor wat 🇰🇭, l'île maurice 🇲🇺]
- satellites, space tech, and mars rovers
- aged, small batch boutique rum from mauritius
< rattling around in my brain />
- are we being good ancestors?
- how do we use technologies like AI and satellite remote sensing to solve the world's most pressing problems?
- surely there's a better approach to capitalism than "toasting the earth for corporate bonuses" 🤔
- #ReFi, climate finance, regenerative agriculture
- digital mrv and carbon insetting
< projects />
- lynx by creattura - lynx is a digital mrv platform for greenhouse gas reduction projects. currently, lynx leverages satellite remote sensing, ai, and iot to monitor sustainable rice agriculture in philippines and japan.
- smart contract factory - written in solidity to run on the ethereum network, this project includes 2 contracts, a simple contract that returns the message "Hello World" (or allows you to set/get a custom message), and a contract factory that deploys instances of the first contract and brokers method calls to the instances.
- polyzero - final project for code chrysalis #cc27, polyzero is a tool to estimate and offset single-use plastic consumption and the corresponding CO2e footprint.
- NASA APOD API client - NASA maintains many publicly available REST APIs. This web page uses client-side javascript to query NASA's "Astronomy Picture Of the Day" API then dynamically adds elements to the DOM to display the results.