Lukas Bals
Staff Engineer at Pina Earth
Dornbirn, Vorarlberg, Austria
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Top SchoolLukas Bals is a Staff Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, mission-driven platforms at the intersection of climate tech and data-driven product engineering. As a founding engineer and former Head of Engineering at Tree.ly (now Pina Earth), he helped design systems that turn satellite and LiDAR-based analytics into tradable carbon certificates and marketplaces for forest owners. He blends hands-on engineering—from cloud database work at Crate.io to serverless prototypes—with product and business fluency to ensure technical decisions directly enable measurable sustainability impact. Based in Dornbirn, Austria, Lukas pairs an academic focus on sustainability and innovation with practical full-stack experience, making him effective at bridging research-grade models and production-grade systems. An unusual strength is his track record of shipping end-to-end climate products that span machine learning, registries, and customer-facing marketplaces.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Matura, Wirtschaftsingeneurwesen - Informatik, Matura, Wirtschaftsingeneurwesen - Informatik at HTL DornbirnMaster of Science - MS, Sustainability, Innovation & Technology, Master of Science - MS, Sustainability, Innovation & Technology at Tomorrow University of Applied SciencesBachelor of Science - BSc, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BSc, Computer Science at Fachhochschule Vorarlberg
German, English
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Github Skills (113)
tsc10
ui-components10
component-library10
javascript10
html10
chakra-ui10
typescript10
nodejs10
react-dom10
package-development10
css10
react10
modular9
react-components9
sitemap-generator9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
treely/scrumboard
May 2023 - Feb 2025
The simplest task tracking tool for dev teams based on Next.js.
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 8 months
treely/openyieldtables
Apr 2024 - Feb 2025
An open source Python library for yield tables
Contributions:70 releases, 70 reviews, 31 PRs in 9 months
forest-carbonforest-managementyield-tables
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