Lucas Vogelsang
Cofounder CTO at Blockchain Capital
None, Piedmont, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolLucas Vogelsang is a builder and technologist with 16 years of experience founding, scaling and operating high-throughput web platforms and startups. As co‑founder and former CEO of Centrifuge and earlier CTO/cofounder of DeinDeal, he shipped systems that handled peak loads (60 credit‑card transactions/min) and sent millions of emails while leading rapid international product launches. He combines hands‑on backend engineering—contributing to open‑source projects like flask‑mongoengine to improve WTForms integration and Python compatibility—with product, architecture and hiring leadership across startups and enterprises. Now based in Piedmont, Switzerland, he serves as a Venture Partner at Blockchain Capital and continues to run a software development studio, pairing investor-level strategic judgment with deep technical execution.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Kantonsschule Hohe Promenade
German, French
Github Skills (9)
back-end-development10
python10
mongoengine10
flask10
flask-ask10
wtforms10
mongodb-database9
mongodb9
six8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
MongoEngine/flask-mongoengine
Aug 2012 - Nov 2012
MongoEngine flask extension with WTF model forms support
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Lucas primarily focused on improving the integration of `flask-mongoengine` with WTForms by refactoring and updating field definitions. Their contributions included renaming fields, adding new field types to handle specific validation scenarios, and fixing an issue related to text type compatibility in newer Python versions. They also addressed a merge conflict and updated the project's dependencies to include `six`, reflecting a focus on enhancing the library's stability and compatibility.
flask-mongoenginepythonwtfflaskflask-application
lucasvo/documentation
Jul 2019 - Dec 2023
Developer documentation for Centrifuge
Contributions:2 PRs, 51 pushes, 29 branches in 4 years 6 months
centrifugedeveloper-documentation
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