Our Team
The guides on sudo.farm are written by people who built the setups they write about. Kai started with a $18 Kratky tub. Maya's $22 ESP32 sensor has been running for three months without intervention.
[ 01 ] Team.md
Meet the builders
Every guide on sudo.farm is written by someone who built the setup first. No theory sourced from textbooks, no curated advice from secondary research. If a guide says a specific ESP32 moisture sensor drifts after 30 days, it's because the author watched it drift. If a Kratky tub cost $18, that's what was spent at the hardware store. The team is small and that's intentional: fewer contributors means higher standards for what gets published.
Kai Chen
Founder & Lead Author
Software engineer turned urban farmer. Kai built his first Kratky lettuce setup in a Brooklyn apartment in 2021 — and spent the next year documenting every failure and fix.
Maya Okafor
Contributing Writer — IoT & Automation
Electrical engineer by training, smart irrigation obsessive by choice. Maya wrote most of the ESP32 and MQTT content on the site.
[ 02 ] Process.md
How we work
Small team, deliberate output. We don't publish a guide until we've tested the setup ourselves. Kai's DWC build went through three iterations before the tutorial was written. Maya's ESP32 irrigation guide documents the calibration values that took two weeks to tune.
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