Lucas Vogelsang
Cofounder & CTO at Blockchain Capital
None, Piedmont, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolLucas Vogelsang is a seasoned founder and technologist with 17 years of experience building and scaling product-led engineering teams and developer-focused platforms. As Cofounder & CTO of Tare and long-time Cofounder/CEO and board member at Centrifuge, he combines hands-on backend engineering with strategic leadership in blockchain and fintech ventures. He has a proven track record launching high-traffic consumer and enterprise systems—e.g., growing DeinDeal into Switzerland’s largest daily-deals site and architecting resilient infrastructure and billing systems at startups like Close.io and Taulia. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved Python web tooling such as flask-mongoengine to enhance form validation and compatibility across versions, reflecting attention to developer ergonomics and stability. Based in Piedmont, Switzerland, Lucas blends deep technical problem-solving with venture experience as a Venture Partner at Blockchain Capital, making him comfortable both in the codebase and in board-level strategy.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Kantonsschule Hohe Promenade
German, French
Github Skills (9)
python10
back-end-development10
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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