Lucas Mcdonald
Senior Software Developer at ShyftLabs
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolLucas Mcdonald is a Senior Software Developer with eight years of hands-on experience building cloud-connected control systems, HMIs, and telematics for heavy machinery and industrial automation. Based in Kingston, Ontario, he progressed from engineering internships at MEDATECH—where he built IoT data pipelines, React frontends, and MATLAB-based motion control—to senior roles at ShyftLabs driving production software. He blends embedded controls and full-stack cloud development (Python, AWS, React) and has a track record of shipping fleet telematics and custom HMIs for complex vehicles. Comfortable bridging hardware and cloud, he brings pragmatic systems thinking and a knack for turning sensor data into actionable interfaces. An unusual strength is his combined experience in trajectory generation for large robot arms and scalable web visualization, enabling end-to-end solutions from control algorithms to user-facing dashboards.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering at Faculty of Engineering - McMaster University
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Github Skills (10)
controller9
can-bus9
ord8
python7
organize5
redux4
react3
avro1
pure-python1
validation1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mcdonl1/ttrpg-combat-tracker
Mar 2023 - May 2024
Contributions:56 pushes, 1 branch, 3 issues in 1 year 1 month
lucas-mcdonald/kickstart.nvim
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
A launch point for your personal nvim configuration
Contributions:8 pushes in 1 year
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