Marshall Richards
Lead Software Engineer at Tesseract Ventures
Greater Fayetteville, AR Area United States
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Top SchoolMarshall Richards is a Lead Software Engineer with a decade of experience building robotics, ML, and automation systems, currently driving engineering at Tesseract Ventures. Self-taught from a young tinkerer—he disassembled Gameboys and built drones—he blends hands-on hardware experience with production software skills honed at internships with Microsoft and Segway. Marshall focuses on making environments and tools more efficient and sustainable by integrating smart technology into everyday objects, with practical work spanning drone systems to neural-network plant diagnostics. Known for taking projects end-to-end, he pairs strong interpersonal leadership with a bias for pragmatic, testable design decisions and continuous learning.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Running Start High School Student, Running Start High School Student at Seattle Central CollegeBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Arkansas
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (29)
middleware9
stackexchange9
reverse-engineering8
iot-platform8
image-recognition8
http8
visualization8
snmp8
device-management7
iot-framework7
iiot7
microservices7
iot6
thingsboard6
big-data6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
marshallrichards/Crop-Disease-Diagnosis
Jul 2016 - Sep 2016
Image Recognition for plant disease detection using Tensorflow for Poets along with a Stack Exchange clone to provide farmers across the globe with the resources and expertise to diagnose and treat plant disease, ultimately increasing crop yield and providing better quality of life for all.
Contributions:31 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
image-recognitionstackexchangetensorflow
marshallrichards/turbodrone
Apr 2025 - Jun 2026
reverse engineering the best-selling drones on Amazon to control programmatically
Contributions:5 reviews, 13 PRs, 68 pushes in 1 year 1 month
reverse-engineering
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