TEAM

  • Prakash Vivekanandan

    Co-Founder, FarmSys

    An IT Professional turned Agriculturist with 18 years of experience in IT Security Infrastructure Management handling Enterprise Security for global leaders such as McAfee, Intel & HP.

    Prakash hails from a farming background in Theni and got affinity towards computers like most of the 1990 kids 🙂 . He studied various technologies in Madurai, Coimbatore & Bangalore . While he was shaping up his career in IT Security, his fervor towards agriculture was kept on burning. His father himself, as a small farmer, faced plethora of problems in agriculture. Prakash witnessed such tough situations from his childhood days and always wanted to use his expertise in Technology in Agri space to improve the livelihood of small farmers. Prakash also traveled extensively to research the new way of agricultural practices by adopting technologies in the areas of soil test & drone based agriculture. Finally, along with few like minded & farming experts, Prakash Co-founded FarmSys with an objective of delivering effective & affordable AgTech products to small & marginal farmers. His dream is to enable small farmers to use high end AgTech products just like any other rich, large & corporate farmers to achieve better financial results.

  • Ramasamy Esvar

    Co-Founder, FarmSys

    A well seasoned Software Professional possessing over 16 years experience in the design and development of various Embedded products with functional experience including architecture, design, development of SetTop Box software, Firmware development, Diagnostics, System/Board Bring up, Linux Applications and Linux Driver Development for various Embedded Technology.

    After serving many years in Product companies he Co-founded a startup to create affordable IIOT Industry 4.0 solutions to MSMEs. And in the years have been wondering if the IoT solutions can be extended to Agriculture which is the backbone of any Country which could create an Impact.

    Meeting Agri experts have made it possible and he co-founded FarmSys to create the Drone fertigation and Soil analysis Technologies which would impact the life of every small/medium farmer by improving yield, while the AgTech is highly affordable will be no less in features.