Lucas Magasweran is a seasoned embedded systems and Linux kernel engineer with 13 years of professional experience, currently building low-level software at Snap Inc. His background spans device drivers, firmware, board bring-up and system integration for products from AR headsets to enterprise storage, with deep expertise in Bluetooth LE, V4L2, IIO, ASoC and UEFI/ACPI. Lucas has repeatedly driven cross-team solutions—packaging custom Debian distributions, creating Docker/Vagrant workflows, and delivering production tools used across QA and OEM partners. He led driver and tooling efforts at Western Digital that supported hyperscale customers and reduced validation fallout, and at DAQRI he integrated thermal and IMU sensors into constrained RTOS and Linux environments. Comfortable in C, C++ and Python, he pairs hardware-level curiosity with pragmatic engineering processes and has contributed kernel and user-space fixes back to open-source maintainers. Based in Berlin, he brings a rare combination of long-term embedded craftsmanship and modern CI/containerized development practices.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
CMPE, Computer Engineering, 3.34, CMPE, Computer Engineering, 3.34 at Georgia Institute of Technology
MSEE, Computer Engineering, 3.94, MSEE, Computer Engineering, 3.94 at California State University-Fullerton
Certificate, Elementary Chinese II, Certificate, Elementary Chinese II at Beijing Language and Culture University
Contributions:91 pushes, 45 branches in 4 years 6 months
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