Lucas Schuermann
Founder at Variational
George Town, Cayman Islands
Summary
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Top SchoolLucas Schuermann is a founder and seasoned software leader with 11 years of experience building research-driven products and teams across startups, academia, and industry. He founded Variational and previously led engineering at Genesis after entrepreneurial stints including Qu Capital, combining hands-on engineering with strategic product direction. His background spans research and teaching roles at Columbia and early-stage engineering at Google and X, reflecting a blend of deep technical rigor and applied innovation. Trained in computer science and applied mathematics at Columbia with further study at Stanford, he brings quantitative problem-solving to system design and product strategy. Based in George Town, Cayman Islands, he favors directing inquiries to his personal site (lvs.io), suggesting a deliberate, privacy-minded approach to professional engagement. Notably, his career weaves together academic research, quant finance exposure, and moonshot engineering, enabling him to translate speculative ideas into executable ventures.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at University of OklahomaBS Computer Science Applied Mathematics, BS Computer Science Applied Mathematics at Columbia UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Stanford University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (28)
particle9
predictive9
hydrodynamics8
smoothed-particle-hydrodynamics8
simulation7
webgl7
fluid7
physics7
targets7
fluid-simulation7
reimplementation7
computational-fluid-dynamics6
rust6
webassembly6
mocking5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
lucas-schuermann/mueller-sph
May 2016 - Dec 2022
Contributions:29 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 8 months
lucas-schuermann/pbd-fluid-rs
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
2D Position Based Fluid simulation in Rust with both WASM and native targets
Contributions:1 review, 76 commits, 16 PRs in 1 year 4 months
positionrustfluidfluid-simulationwebassembly
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