This is an installment of our “Community Member Spotlight” series, where we invite our customers to share their work, shining a light on their success and inspiring others with new ways to use technology to solve problems. Christoph Engelbert, co-founder of clevabit GmbH, joins us to share the work they're doing to power sustainable and transparent farming by giving farmers, mills, and consumers the metrics they need to make decisions. clevabit offers a platform that provides unseen insight into animal farming, barn environmental levels, and how these metrics influence animal health and farm operations. The company's customers range from farmers and hatcheries to feed mills, with the goal of enabling informed decision-making when buying meat or eggs. Christoph Engelbert shares his experience building the clevabit hardware and software platform, which relies heavily on a time-series database like TimescaleDB for fast queries and aggregations. He discusses the benefits of using TimescaleDB, including its ability to handle large amounts of IoT data and provide real-time insights into farm operations. The team's growth is in software engineering, mobile app development, and data science, with a focus on building a scalable system that can support their growing customer base. Christoph also emphasizes the importance of "using the right tool for the right job" and recommends prototyping and testing different approaches to solving complex problems.