Kai Marshland
Co-Founder And Chief Product Officer at WindBorne Systems
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKai Marshland is a product-driven engineering leader and climate-tech founder with 12 years of experience blending aerospace-grade systems, SaaS, and embedded development. As Co‑Founder and Chief Product Officer at WindBorne, he led the product vision that pairs record-breaking long-duration balloon hardware with AI weather models to fill critical gaps in atmospheric data. A Stanford CS graduate and Forbes 30 Under 30 alumnus, Kai cut his teeth building high-growth products from his teens at POWr and Carrotmob and later optimized orbit-determination and visualization systems at LeoLabs and flight software at SpaceX. He has deep hands-on experience across the stack—from full-stack microservices and large-scale data pipelines to low-power embedded improvements in the Tock RTOS—and a track record of shipping measurable efficiency gains. Known for teaching and scaling teams (e.g., authoring ~100k LOC at Stanford Student Space Initiative), he combines operator rigor with product intuition to bring ambitious climate and space projects to market.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Management Science and Engineering, Master's degree Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University
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Github Skills (17)
microcontroller10
arm10
embedded10
rust10
rtc10
operating-system10
cortex-m9
nrf519
kernel9
iot8
macos6
ruby-on-rails6
heroku6
ssl6
id36
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
tock/tock
Oct 2016 - Nov 2016
A secure embedded operating system for microcontrollers
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 1 month
Contributions summary:Kai primarily worked on integrating and optimizing the Tock operating system for the nRF51DK board. Their contributions involved switching the alarm functionality to utilize the RTC (Real-Time Clock) for improved power efficiency, demonstrating an understanding of low-power embedded systems design. They also addressed merge conflicts and cleaned up the RTC implementation by adding comments and refactoring functions, leading to more maintainable and readable code.
embeddedmicrocontrolleroperating-systemrustcortex-m
KMarshland/heroku-ssl
Nov 2016 - Dec 2017
Quickly and easily add SSL to Rails applications
Contributions:60 commits, 65 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
railsssl
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