Lucas De Marchi
Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Pflugerville, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top expert inAutonomous Robotics and Computer Vision Development
Lucas De Marchi is a Senior Software Engineer with 26 years of experience specializing in systems, embedded and back-end development, now based in Pflugerville, Texas and recently joining NVIDIA after a long tenure at Intel. He has a strong track record in avionics and robotics software—significant contributions to ArduPilot and PX4/PX4-Autopilot demonstrate deep embedded systems expertise and hardware bring-up for autopilots like AeroFC. His open-source work spans critical infrastructure projects including mavlink-router and the Linux kernel (Xe graphics driver), showing an aptitude for low-level performance, networking, and cross-platform compatibility (IPv6, hardware flow control). Lucas also improves developer UX and code quality, adding interactive features and automation to tools like codespell and maintaining documentation for ArduPilot. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic refactors that remove legacy cruft and for reliably shipping system-level fixes that bridge firmware, OS, and tooling.
26 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (54)
c-language10
nuttx10
restructuredtext10
autopilot10
python10
command-line-interface10
open-source10
drones10
rs10
linux10
cmake10
build-system10
system-design10
c1110
linux-kernel10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
mavlink-router/mavlink-router
Oct 2016 - Nov 2022
Route mavlink packets between endpoints
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Systems Engineer
Back-end Developer & Systems EngineerContributions:3 releases, 100 reviews, 276 commits in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Lucas primarily focused on enhancing the mavlink-router project by implementing core features and addressing critical system-level aspects. They introduced methods for writing data and refactored buffer handling, improving data flow efficiency. Additionally, the user added signal handling for graceful program termination and incorporated support for connecting multiple clients via command line arguments, enhancing the router's flexibility and usability. Moreover, the user fixed various issues, including return values and IPv6 compatibilities, and implemented hardware flow control settings.
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ArduPilot/ardupilot
Jul 2015 - Nov 2022
ArduPlane, ArduCopter, ArduRover, ArduSub source
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Embedded Systems Engineer
Back-end Developer & Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:51 reviews, 1328 commits, 828 PRs in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Lucas primarily focused on the ArduPilot codebase, contributing features related to embedded systems, especially those running on Linux. Their work included improvements to the scheduler for Linux, incorporating new hardware (like the AeroFC-V1) and its specific configurations, and integrating new components to the build system. The user also addressed issues related to RC input, including protocol support for the SoloLink controller. Finally, the user made several code-style improvements and refactorings to remove legacy code and improve the overall architecture.
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