Steve Lucco
Technical Fellow And CVP at Microsoft
United States
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Top SchoolSteve Lucco is a Technical Fellow and engineering leader with over a decade of recent experience and a multi-decade track record of creating foundational developer tools and web platforms, including co-creating TypeScript, ChakraCore, VS Code, the Fluid Framework and Software Fault Isolation. He blends deep research roots (PhD-level work and prior Bell Labs/CMU roles) with product-focused execution, having led architectures for distributed real-time collaboration and language tooling at Microsoft and built AI-driven platforms as Highspot’s Chief Scientist. Steve’s hands-on contributions span compilers, JS engines, collaborative client UI features (notably inline math support in Fluid Framework) and the early TypeScript compiler, reflecting a rare combination of systems-level rigor and user-facing engineering. He is passionate about linguistics and neuroscience as ways to understand problem solving, and is currently applying AI to programming tools while continuing to champion open-source ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Yale University
French
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Github Skills (10)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
katex10
typescript-types10
ui-components10
collaboration9
enums9
react9
fluid-framework9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/FluidFramework
Mar 2019 - Jul 2019
Library for building distributed, real-time collaborative web applications
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:22 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily focused on implementing features within the client-ui package of the fluidframework project. Their contributions include adding support for inline math within the flow view, integrating the KaTeX library for rendering math expressions. Further improvements involved refactoring the render for math expressions. Also, the user introduced enhancements to the search menu component and worked on component interaction.
datastructurerealtimereal-timeweb-applicationsfluid-framework
cephopod/canvas
Oct 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:60 pushes in 2 months
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