Tony Richards
Co-Founder, CEO at Hat Boy Software, Inc.
Oxford, Mississippi, United States
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Top SchoolTony Richards is a veteran software engineer and entrepreneur with over three decades of engineering experience and a dozen years in senior leadership roles, currently co-founding and leading Nandeshou where he commercializes the Mushin Infrastructure Suite. He invented the AI Corpus Callosum architecture and "Goal Contracts" to enable verifiable communication between neural and symbolic engines, positioning his platform for mission-critical AI adoption. Tony blends hands-on systems design—from high-frequency trading engines and industrial IoT gateways to full enterprise stacks—with people leadership as Director of Engineering at Hat Boy Software. He has a history of shipping high-performance, low-latency systems (including work that contributed to a patent at eSpeed) and modernizing legacy codebases across finance and industrial domains. Based in Oxford, Mississippi, he bootstraps product-focused engineering teams that leverage AI-augmented architecture to outpace traditional headcount-heavy approaches. Beyond executive duties, he remains an active technical mentor and builder, bridging research, product strategy, and practical delivery.
12 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Full Web Stack Developer, Computer Software Engineering, Full Web Stack Developer, Computer Software Engineering at Free Code Camp
English, Russian, Chinese
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Github Skills (8)
zscript8
natsio7
unreal5
plugin5
scripting-language4
scripting4
programming-language3
compiler2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
aethosio/aethos-build-dist
May 2016 - Jan 2020
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
indie-zen/zscript
Jan 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:50 commits, 1 PR, 48 pushes in 1 year 6 months
scriptingzscriptscripting-languagecompilerprogramming-language
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