Kyle Jaster

Managing Director at Community Food Works

Building regional-scale food infrastructure connecting locally grown foods to Mid-Hudson Valley schools and emergency food programs.

Farmer at Atticus Farm (2016 - Present)

Developed a unique locally raised feed program resulting in products praised and sought after by local chefs and restaurants. Practice regenerative agriculture and manage animals in a low-stress, natural environment in West Shokan, NY.

Consultant (2020 - Present)

With over 15 years of experience building and leading technology teams and a passion for optimizing process, I bring practical knowledge of what works (and doesn't) when trying to increase developer throughput and code quality while reducing burnout.

Chief Operating Officer at Harvie Farms (2020 - 2024)

• Implemented OKRs and KPI tracking, resulting in tripling of sales volume over two years
• Led lean management implementation in engineering from weekly deploys to CI
• Designed and implemented real-time inventory system to support small farms
• Rebuilt marketing function, achieving 10x drop in customer acquisition cost
• Improved warehouse packline processes, reducing labor cost per unit sold by 25%

CTO at Freightflow (2015 - 2019)

• Designed and led team building innovative logistics planning platform for produce industry
• Grew company from 0 to sustainable ARR
• Developed core UX and built engineering team
• Negotiated partnerships with key ERP systems for scalability
• Implemented AI route optimization, carrier selection, and LTL consolidation features

Chief Product Officer at Noodle Education (2011 - 2015)

• Grew searches from <10,000/month to over 1M/month
• Scaled team from 15 to 60 people, managing product managers, data scientists, and engineers
• Launched MVP of education search engine built on Solr with millions of records
• Achieved 20x increase in monthly visitors, 2x increase in time on site, 21% decrease in bounce rate