Bruce Luckcuck
Self Employed
Fishers, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBruce Luckcuck is a principal consultant and seasoned technology leader with nearly three decades of experience delivering enterprise software and IT strategy, and nine years of focused experience in hands-on engineering. He combines executive-level program leadership—having directed global application teams at John Wiley and Sons and led ERP-driven growth at Hungry Minds—with deep firmware and IoT expertise, contributing safety and performance features to widely used open-source flight controller projects like Cleanflight and Betaflight. Known for building processes, tooling, and measurable KPIs, he consistently delivers complex projects on time and under budget while improving maintainability and performance through careful refactoring and optimization. Bruce pairs front-end and full-stack work on configurator tools with low-level embedded improvements (including Runaway Takeoff Prevention and launch-control features), a blend that highlights both product empathy and systems-level rigor. Based in Fishers, Indiana, he operates as a trusted advisor to diverse clients, translating business goals into secure, scalable technical solutions that drive measurable ROI.
9 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at California State University-Fullerton
Github Skills (34)
javascript10
displays10
firmware10
css10
preflight10
beta-release10
user-interface10
c-programming10
c1110
integrations10
c1710
controls10
pid-control10
screen10
front-end-development10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cleanflight/cleanflight
Dec 2017 - May 2020
Clean-code version of the baseflight flight controller firmware
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:418 commits, 5 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Bruce primarily focused on the flight controller firmware, implementing and optimizing features related to sensor integration and system performance. Contributions involved modifying code for gyro control, tuning, and handling, as well as implementing a new feature, "Runaway Takeoff Prevention," designed to enhance flight safety. Additional work involved code cleanup, performance optimizations, and refactoring to improve code readability, maintainability, and reduce flash memory usage.
flightcontrollerfirmwarecleanflight-controller
betaflight/betaflight
Mar 2018 - Mar 2021
Open Source Flight Controller Firmware
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:135 reviews, 54 commits, 452 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Bruce contributed to the firmware for flight controllers by implementing and modifying features. Contributions include improvements to the slew filter, refactoring of time-critical code, memory and performance optimizations of the PID controller, the introduction of a "Runaway Takeoff Prevention" feature to prevent crashes, and the addition of a "Launch Control" feature for race starts. They also improved the OSD by adding enhancements to existing elements as well as new ones.
flightcontrollerbetaflightfirmwareflight-controller
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