Brad Koch
Principal Software Engineer at Bushel
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolBrad Koch is a Principal Software Engineer and startup founder with 14 years of experience building scalable, data-driven systems for agriculture technology. He co-founded FarmLogs, growing it to 80+ employees and $37M raised, and led backend development in Python and Clojure while designing geospatial data pipelines with PostGIS, GDAL, rasterio and cloud storage. Now at Bushel after FarmLogs' acquisition, he focuses on integrating farm management platforms with machine data providers like John Deere and Climate FieldView to create seamless user experiences. Brad combines hands-on systems work—containerized deployments to EKS, Helm, CircleCI—with hiring and team-building, having personally interviewed and hired every engineer at FarmLogs. He started building software businesses as a teenager, launching a consulting firm and operating Gentoo servers, which explains his long-standing practical ops expertise alongside product engineering. Based in Chicago, he brings entrepreneurial grit and deep domain knowledge in AgTech coupled with full-stack infrastructure skills.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
FarmLogs Winter 2012, FarmLogs Winter 2012 at Y CombinatorB.S. Computer Information Systems, B.S. Computer Information Systems at Saginaw Valley State UniversityComputer Technology Management, Computer Technology Management at Tuscola Technology Center
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Github Skills (83)
heroku10
container10
documentation10
nginx10
cakephp9
javascript9
ring9
postgresql9
python9
http9
ruby-on-rails9
flask9
docker9
php9
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kochb/cakephp-mailgun
May 2012 - Dec 2013
Contributions:8 commits in 1 year 7 months
FarmLogs/geojson
Mar 2015 - Oct 2017
Libraries and utilities for using GeoJSON in Clojure.
Contributions:2 releases, 11 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 8 months
clojuregeojson
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