- i'm zach brown.
- coder, social entrepreneur, dad of two
- global nomad, currently bouncing around asia 🇯🇵 🇰🇠🇵ðŸ‡
- @past, spent several years running pivotal labs/vmware tanzu labs in japan and asia pacific
- @present, cto and cofounder of creattura 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
- exploring africa and southeast asia / some recent faves => [zanzibar 🇹🇿, chobe 🇧🇼, angkor wat 🇰ðŸ‡, 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" 🤔
- climate finance, regenerative agriculture
- digital mrv and decarbonizing supply chains
< projects />
- lynxawd - digital monitoring platform for rice methane abatement. lynxawd leverages satellite remote sensing, ai, and iot to monitor sustainable rice agriculture projects throughout southeast asia in order to issue carbon credits under japan's jcm framework.
- 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.