Kevin Turnbull

Kevin Turnbull

Farmer · Technologist · Maker

[email protected]

Rural Ontario, Canada

Professional Summary

Second-generation plant science family. Self-taught full-stack engineer with a PMP and a decade building farm management software. Currently CTO at lilAgents. Documenting Year One on the farm — building the tools that don't exist for small-scale agriculture.

Professional Highlights

Full-Stack Engineering (Go, Python, JS/TS, C#)

PMP Certified · Technical Architecture

Digital Fabrication (3D Printing, CNC)

Experience

Founder & Developer, Turnbull AgriTech Inc.

(~2015 – Present)
  • Building farm management platform with protocol engine, recursive location mapping, and GPS behavioral inference
  • Stack: Go API server, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, Python sidecars, Wails desktop app, D3.js protocol builder
  • Roughly a decade of prototypes tested across real growing seasons on 100-acre family farm
  • 2026: first serious farming season — wilding year for microclimate genetic testing

CTO, lilAgents Marketing Agency

(Mid-2025 – Present)
  • Building ERP platform for a service business — full-stack architecture and delivery
  • Deepening marketing and go-to-market knowledge for agricultural technology commercialization

Engagement Manager, Gigster

(June 2023 – August 2024)
  • Portfolio management across multiple concurrent software delivery engagements
  • Skills assessment and cultural fit from a pool of thousands of candidates
  • Authored policies and training material aligned with organizational processes
  • Accumulated experience to qualify for PMP certification

Programming Educator & Consultant

(June 2016 – Present)
  • Teaching software engineering on CodeMentor — 5-star rated after hundreds of sessions
  • Full-stack consulting on complex projects: critical path assessment through delivery

Project Manager / Development Lead, N-VisionIT

(Sept 2014 – March 2019)
  • Client communication, business requirements extraction, and development team coordination
  • Project lifecycle selection, task prioritization, and focused delivery

Founder, Aurora Corals

(~2011 – 2012)
  • Marine aquaculture operation — 1,500 sq ft warehouse growing anemones, coral, and invertebrates
  • Deliberate lab for learning controlled-environment growth processes as preparation for agricultural technology

Education

Project Management Professional (PMP)

  • Project Management Institute certification with 8+ years verified PM experience

AgTech Graduate

(2024)
  • Agricultural technology certificate program

GrindSpaceXL, Invest Ottawa

(Winter 2013)
  • Business incubator program — executive management, startup theory, business analysis

Audio Engineering, TARA (Ottawa)

  • Recording arts and audio engineering program

Accomplishments

TVC 2010 Rising Star — Carleton University business plan competition winner

Wes Nicol Fellowship recipient

Recognized as one of Ottawa's “100 Rising Stars of Business” (Global Entrepreneur Week 2013)