Summary
Garm Lucassen is a founder and product-focused technologist with 13 years of experience building startups and shipping fintech and blockchain products from MVP to multi-chain scale. He led product and engineering early at VC-backed Secfi, took a PhD in software product management studying user stories and requirements, and has translated that research into practical product leadership. As CEO/CTO of Glo Dollar he engineered the stablecoin on Ethereum, drove liquidity operations, and expanded the protocol to eight chains after raising $5M, while directing ongoing donations to open source and charities. Now running Garm.com, he has founded and advised multiple initiatives generating over $2.5M in sales, combining academic rigor with hands-on engineering and commercial outcomes. An entrepreneurial thinker, he blends computational-linguistics insight into requirements with real-world experience in token design and product-market execution.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Software Product Management, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Software Product Management at Utrecht University
Dutch, English