Lukas Scheucher
Chief Technology Officer at Compass Labs
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLukas Scheucher is a CTO and technology strategist with 9 years of hands-on experience building AI, SRE, and engineering teams across startups and moonshot labs. He’s led work at Google, X (the moonshot factory), Volkswagen and research centers at Stanford and TUM, applying deep learning, uncertainty quantification, and high-dimensional optimization to problems from autonomous driving to aircraft shape design. Now heading Compass Labs in Palo Alto, he helped secure nearly $2M from tier‑one investors including a16z and continues to bridge research-grade algorithms with product-grade DevOps. Lukas combines a strong mechanical engineering foundation and parallel C++ scientific computing background with pragmatic data engineering and reliability practices, enabling rapid prototypes to scale. Colleagues describe him as equally comfortable in Bayesian ML papers and production CI/CD pipelines, a mix that often surfaces non-obvious reliability improvements early in the development lifecycle.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Mechanical Engineering, M.Sc., Master's degree, Mechanical Engineering, M.Sc. at Technical University MunichHigh School Diploma, Materials Science, 1.0, High School Diploma, Materials Science, 1.0 at HTL Inviertel Nord - AndorfVisiting Researcher, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Visiting Researcher, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Stanford University
German, English
Github Skills (34)
python10
data-visualization10
streamlit10
developer-tools10
data-science9
bokeh9
pandas9
machine-learning9
material-ui9
fastest9
deep-learning9
react9
data-analysis9
material-design8
javascript8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Job-Protocol/OpenJobAPI
Mar 2023 - Apr 2023
Contributions:5 reviews, 69 PRs, 146 pushes in 1 month
CompassLabs/dojo_examples
May 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 reviews, 39 PRs, 256 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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