I worked at Ecovative from 2021 to 2025, first as Head of Foundry Engineering and later as Chief Information and Data Officer, where I designed novel platforms for researching and cultivating mycelium.

At Ecovative, we design materials, food, and packaging with mycelium. Discovering the many unique properties of fungi means doing a lot of testing. I joined the company as the director of the Foundry Engineering team, my role was to pursue the vision and possibilities new biomaterials by developing tools for doing rigorous scientific research at scale. To that end, I led a group of engineers and software developers in building a first-of-its-kind platform for inventing and fine-tuning a wide range of mycelium biomaterials. The Foundry has been at the heart of Ecovative’s innovation process for growing AirMycelium™ material.

As of August 2023, the Foundry Engineering team became the Data Systems and Intelligence group. Our focus shifted from designing bench scale platforms to overseeing the entire data architecture for the company, including our scale-out partners for food and textiles.

We develop data collection pipelines, control systems, predictive models, and analytics for different workflows, from farm operations to material testing.

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