Bruce Lightner
Co-owner at Lightner Engineering
California, United States
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Top SchoolBruce Lightner is a veteran hardware and firmware engineer with over two decades of deep specialization in vehicle telematics, co-owning and operating Lightner Engineering from La Jolla, California. He has intimate, practical expertise across all U.S. on-board diagnostic buses—including OBD-II, J1708 and J1939—and has personally designed hardware and firmware that now underpin more than 500,000 deployed telematics units. Bruce led development and certification of 15+ telematics products across diverse terrestrial and satellite networks, navigating FCC, PTCRB and carrier approvals and integrating dozens of cellular modems and wireless technologies like WiFi, Bluetooth and MFi. Prior to his telematics focus he co-founded Metaflow, contributing to foundational microprocessor microarchitecture and multiple cited patents, and earlier supported mission-critical systems for military and medical customers. Known for tackling “difficult to impossible” engineering challenges, he combines hands-on circuit and embedded software design with a proven track record of productizing complex hardware at scale. His background in geo/cosmochemistry and long arc of entrepreneurial technical leadership give him a rare mix of scientific rigor and practical product engineering.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Geo/cosmochemistry (Noble gas isotopic analysis of lunar samples and meteorites), Geo/cosmochemistry (Noble gas isotopic analysis of lunar samples and meteorites) at University of California, San Diego, Graduate School, Chemistry DepartmentUniversity of California, San Diego
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Github Skills (27)
canutils8
bus7
logger7
surface7
socketcan7
automotive6
parametric5
can-bus5
embedded5
openscad5
sniffer5
hardware4
python4
aws3
sensor3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bdlightner/luhn-implementation-C-
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
bdlightner/luhn-implementation-Perl-
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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