Hey I’m Lucas.
I’m an engineer, researcher and product designer.
I currently live in Sydney. I grew up in Brazil and previously studied at UNSW.
I wrote my first line of PHP when I was 16. Since then I’ve dabbled in fusion research as an undergrad, but realised the inflection point for robotics is much closer. So I recently left my job at PwC where I built trust infrastructure for AI-era media, to go all-in and wrote an 100-page honours thesis on post-training robots.
As a generalist with experience, I’ve built vertically integrated systems, from large-scale document ingestion platforms to real-time machine learning running on-device:
Post-trained VLA models with on-policy RL methods Honours thesis supervised by Prof. W. Midgley
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Universal checkout with zero-inventory cross-marketplace arbitrage Operating stores with 100k+ products under management and $1.8M/hr processing capacity
End-to-end on-device human motion understanding from raw IMU data — creating a new way to capture the moment Featured on Blackbird
Designing scalable trust infrastructure for deepfakes Featured on PwC, Accounting Times and UNSW BusinessThink
Flagship audit platform for large-scale financial document analysis, processing thousands of events per second 10k+ MAUs in 12 countries
Using deep research agents to transform old photos, recordings and family history into rich, lasting stories
Aggregating location data for forecasting models to predict where crowds will form next
Some other things about me:
- Technion Yom Ha’Atzmaut ‘25 hackathon winner
- UNIHACK ‘24 hackathon winner
- Scaled reusable coffee cups across Australia at Cercle
- Started selling code to business clients when I was 16
- Tinkering in the garage with electrons since I was 15
- I’m ok at budgeting
- I like to play around with 3D graphics on the web
- Never got my pen license
If you found this page interesting, let’s chat.