Luke Shanks
Pilot at FedEx
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolLuke Shanks is an experienced commercial pilot based in Cologne with over eight years in aviation, currently flying for FedEx and with long-standing ties to ExpressJet Airlines. Trained at Embry-Riddle, he blends operational precision with a hands-on technical curiosity, contributing to open-source projects like OpenHD where he improved shell scripts, UI text, OSD telemetry and fixed display bugs. His background shows a rare mix of real-time systems awareness and practical scripting skills applied to avionics-like telemetry and user-facing tooling. Outside the cockpit he describes himself wryly as "too old to be playing with this," yet continues to invest limited spare time into meaningful engineering fixes that improve reliability and user experience.
7 years of coding experience
Embry Riddle Aeronautical University
Github Skills (8)
bash10
script10
user-interface9
raspberry-pi8
low-latency7
latency7
fpc7
fvp7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
OpenHD/OpenHD
Dec 2018 - Mar 2022
OpenHD
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 1 review, 368 commits in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Luke primarily contributed to the OpenHD project by refactoring text output and modifying existing scripts to improve the user interface and experience. Their work involved changes to the main shell script, as well as the RemoteSettings scripts, updating text and error messages, and removing unnecessary boot text. These contributions involved both front-end and back-end (scripting) modifications for the OpenHD system. They also implemented updates to the OSD, including adding new functionality to display more telemetry information, and fixed a bug related to the display of the time.
camerahd-videofpvlong-rangelow-latency
pilotnbr1/Open.HD_Image_Builder
Feb 2020 - Jun 2021
Script for building automatically Open.HD
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
pythonautomation
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