Lucian Copeland
Senior Firmware Engineer at Familiar Machines & Magic
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLucian Copeland is a Senior Firmware Engineer with 11 years of embedded systems experience, currently building connected devices and low-level firmware at Familiar Machines & Magic. He specializes in RTOS and bare-metal device drivers, Python tooling, IoT/web interfaces, and robotics connectivity, with a portfolio of hands-on projects at hierophect.net. His background spans startups and product-led teams—from leading firmware at Bevi and Optimus Ride to creative engineering at Adafruit—and includes CEO experience launching a haptic VR wearable. Lucian blends practical R&D and sustaining firmware work with open-source contributions and ROS2 robotics integrations, often favoring pragmatic, hardware-near solutions he playfully calls “embedded jank conjuror.”
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Electrical & Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science Electrical & Computer Engineering at University of Rochester
Github Skills (69)
cpython10
usb-hid10
python10
neopixel10
micropython10
bluetooth10
arduino-library10
usb-devices10
embedded10
espressif10
midi10
git10
microcontroller10
iot10
usb-drive10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
hierophect/pyshuffle
Aug 2020 - Dec 2021
Create autogenerated decks of sentences to study Japanese grammar
Contributions:11 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
HardlightVR/HL-firmware
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
Source for Hardlight control firmware
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
firmware
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