Ben Marshall
Principal Firmware Engineer at Leonardo
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Marshall is a Principal Firmware Engineer based in Edinburgh with over a decade of experience delivering FPGA, DSP and embedded systems across defence and commercial sectors. He combines deep FPGA and model-driven engineering expertise—including MATLAB/Simulink, High Level Synthesis and automated code generation—with hands-on product delivery from prototype to high-volume manufacturing. At Leonardo he has progressed from graduate to principal engineer leading complex radar, IR countermeasure and signal-processing firmware, and previously led hardware and firmware teams shipping Bluetooth LE and cellular IoT devices. Comfortable bridging hardware, firmware and software teams, he brings practical RF and certification know-how alongside system modelling discipline. Notably, his background blends defence-grade algorithmic DSP design with consumer electronics production and test engineering—helping translate sophisticated signal-processing architectures into manufacturable products.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MEng Electronic and Electrical Engineering, MEng Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University of Glasgow
English, French
Github Skills (58)
equalizer10
python10
mqtt10
internet-of-things10
wasapi10
resampling10
asyncio10
audio10
iot10
pulseaudio10
iir-filters10
jekyll10
coreaudio10
alsa10
home-assistant10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
benjmarshall/hlsclt
Jun 2017 - Feb 2019
A Vivado HLS Command Line Helper Tool
Contributions:7 releases, 76 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 8 months
command-linevivado-hlshigh-level-synthesispythonfpga
benjmarshall/core
May 2020 - Jan 2022
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first
Contributions:5 PRs, 16 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 8 months
home-automation
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