The people who built it
Daniel Ferreira
CEO and Co-Founder
Daniel spent eight years as an independent agronomy consultant covering operations across Iowa and Illinois before co-founding CropKern. He holds a Certified Crop Adviser designation and has been integrating remote sensing into field recommendations since the first Sentinel-2 data became available in 2015. He built the original yield forecast pipeline on his own farm test plots in 2021.
Priya Nair
CTO and Co-Founder
Priya came to CropKern from a remote sensing research position at Iowa State University, where she focused on multispectral image classification for crop-type mapping. She architected the satellite ingestion and feature extraction pipeline and leads the machine learning infrastructure. Her graduate work on red-edge band fusion is the basis for the canopy stress detection module.
Marcus Webb
Head of Agronomy
Marcus reviews every model update before production deployment and manages the grower advisory relationships. He has 12 years of field agronomy experience across corn, soybean, and winter wheat in the Corn Belt. Marcus maintains the crop phenology curve library and runs the seasonal accuracy audit that CropKern publishes after each harvest.