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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 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 worked on 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:

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Universal checkout with zero-inventory cross-marketplace arbitrage Operating VintageFinderHaul with 100k+ products under management and $1.8M/hr processing capacity
VLA-RLX
Stabilized pre-trained VLA models with on-policy RL methods Supervised by Prof. W. Midgley
oNex
End-to-end on-device human motion understanding from raw IMU data — creating a new way to capture the moment Featured on Blackbird
Veracity
Designing scalable trust infrastructure for deepfakes Featured on PwC, Accounting Times and UNSW BusinessThink
SmartAudit
Flagship audit platform for large-scale financial document analysis, processing thousands of events per second 10k+ MAUs in 12 countries
Preparing 3D sculpture…
“Sculpture of a Roman gladiator” by Virtual Museums of Małopolska.

These are some more projects I’ve worked on with my friends for hackathons or just to have fun:

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Crowdsourcing real-time human location data
Capsol
Bringing dusty photos to life with vision language models
Geophytes
Grassroots activism for displaced mining communities
Preparing Möbius strip…
Möbius strip by me.

Some other things about me:

If you found this page interesting, let’s chat.