Christopher Newman
Co-Founder And Managing Partner (Business Development) at Sylvanaqua Farms, LLC
Montross, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Newman is a software leader and entrepreneur with 11 years of professional experience who now splits his time between scaling regenerative poultry farming in Virginia and building business development at Blackbird Farms. He started in enterprise software—J2EE, .NET, ETL—and progressed to technical management and architecture roles, translating deep engineering discipline into operational and product strategy. As founder of Sylvanaqua Farms since 2013, he combines hands-on agricultural practice with startup-style growth thinking, bringing data-driven process improvements to the farm. Comfortable bridging technical teams and commercial outcomes, he leverages a Computer Science degree from University of Maryland and a background in Agile delivery to shepherd projects from concept to execution. Notably, he transitioned from “tech-bro” roots into regenerative agriculture, applying engineering rigor to sustainable food systems and rural business development.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College Park
Spanish
Github Skills (2)
peer-to-peer6
react6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
GreenMavenCSA/greenmaven
Dec 2016 - Mar 2019
GreenMaven Peer-to-Peer Food Hub
Contributions:1 release, 35 commits, 18 PRs in 2 years 3 months
reactpeer-to-peerfood
cnative100/eddie
Jul 2021 - Apr 2023
Contributions:13 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 9 months
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