Hi, I'm Lucas!
I’m a software engineer living in Austin, Texas. I am currently working at HUVR, where we offer an industrial inspection and repair platform in the energy sector. I worked for 5 years in London, UK in the Financial Tech sector.
I am passionate about finding solutions to complex problems and systems design, leading engineering teams towards efficient development processes and lifecycle, and working with people from different backgrounds and roles to achieve our objectives. I specialize in developing and maintaining APIs, with some frontend experience, handling integrations with third-party systems, and designing scalable and secure high-traffic solutions.
My enthusiasm is driven by delivering functionality through good design and solid implementation. I am also experienced in hiring the right employees across teams, and contribute to a company culture of ownership, customer focus, and fun.
I am a Senior Software Engineer at HUVR in Austin Texas, where I work on our SaaS website, performing backend and frontend duties. The technologies I use day to day are Python, Django, Javascript, React, Google Cloud Platform, and more. I work across the full stack to bring features from idea to production. Being part of a small team, I’ve contributed to key parts of the platform: from SSO and AI-powered tools to media handling - and always try to build things that are clean, scalable, and easy to use. Read more…
2018-2023 (5 years): Yobota
I was an engineer at Yobota, a vibrant fintech in the heart of London. Yobota built a Banking Platform from scratch, focused on flexibility and reusability. We supplied the platform to 3 financial institutions trading in the UK. The bank Chetwood Financial acquired Yobota in 2022. I became an engineering team lead and was responsible for the Third-party Integrations team and the Quantitative and Simulation team totaling 11 engineers. My groups were responsible for most of the backend systems of the Banking Platform as I took on the Yobota Platform Tech Lead position. Read more…
2015: I interned at CERN where I worked with an engineering team and developed an application for the department. To see more projects I worked on, see my projects.
Education
Masters in Artificial Intelligence - University of Sussex (2016-2017)
I completed a Masters in Intelligent Systems at the University of Sussex. I am proficient at machine learning, neural networks, natural language processing, software development with version control. My Masters in Intelligent Systems expanded my knowledge of machine learning, decision trees, image processing, human-computer interaction, human consciousness, and the ethics of robotics.
My thesis involved creating a robot that would learn about its environment through a neural network and could predict its next move to help it move through space. Read more…
Bachelors in Computer Science - University of Sussex (2013-2016)
I developed skills in programming, algorithm design, software engineering, math. Some of projects I completed involve: a desktop application for students to work with a new programming language, a graphical game where players need to escape a maze, a file system on a USB key that can store files.
My thesis was in language interpretation and I built an IDE for a new language. It’s an application for programmers to write and execute programs in the WHILE language. The project consisted of making an interpreter for the language in Java with a Graphical User Interface (GUI) in Scala. The application was used by fellow students in the Limits of Computation course taught by Bernhard Reus at the University of Sussex. Read more…