Michael Mcguire
Chief Technology Officer at EarthSense, Inc.
Champaign, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Mcguire is a pragmatic technology leader and CTO with nine years of hands-on experience building autonomous perception and AI systems for robotics in agriculture. At EarthSense he progressed from AI intern to Lead Computer Vision Engineer, TerraMax Project Lead, and now Chief Technology Officer, coordinating R&D, manufacturing, operations, and autonomy for the TerraMax robot line. He specializes in computer vision and perception pipelines that enable robots to see, think, and act in complex outdoor environments, translating research into production-ready systems. Based in Champaign, Illinois and educated at UIUC, he blends academic rigor with product-focused execution and a track record of scaling teams and solutions. Unobvious but notable: his career arc shows repeated promotion within a single deep-technology company, signaling strong ownership of long-term technical product development.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (27)
starcraft10
reinforcement-learning8
arcade7
localization7
lidar7
deep-reinforcement-learning7
ros6
cpu6
lrs6
robotics6
slam5
rms5
pcl5
simulation5
artificial-intelligence4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mcguiremichael/Object-Recognition
Oct 2018 - Jun 2021
Contributions:79 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
acm-uiuc/SigAI
Oct 2018 - Mar 2020
Contributions:13 commits, 13 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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