Luc Bläser
Founder And Architect at LBC GmbH
Zug, Zug, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolLuc Bläser is a founder and architect who blends academic rigor (PhD in Computer Science and former university dean/professor) with hands-on engineering to build production-grade AI and runtime systems. As founder of LightScale AI and LBC GmbH and former Staff Engineer at DFINITY, he has designed language runtimes, an incremental garbage collector, and the Enhanced Orthogonal Persistence innovation used on the Internet Computer. He led the AI core at Caffeine, delivering LLM fine-tuning and LLM-directed code generation to enable backend coding in Motoko, and has a track record shipping high-performance persistence and compiler work. An active open-source contributor, his Motoko runtime optimizations and GC work materially improved performance and stability for a notable blockchain language. Based in Zug, Switzerland, he combines entrepreneurial leadership with deep systems research and a penchant for turning language and runtime research into practical, production software. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic innovator who prefers building reliable, correct-by-design systems faster and cheaper.
4 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at ETH Zürich
German, English, French, schweizerdeutsch, luxemburgisch
Github Skills (9)
rust10
motoko10
performance-optimization10
garbage-collection10
algorithms9
data-structure9
algorithm9
data-structures9
programming-language8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
caffeinelabs/motoko
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Simple high-level language for writing Internet Computer canisters
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 951 reviews, 981 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Luc primarily contributed to performance improvements and bug fixes within the Motoko programming language runtime system (RTS). Their work focused on optimizing array initialization and tabulation, resulting in significant speedups. They also addressed compiler warnings and implemented a generational garbage collector, indicating a focus on improving the efficiency and stability of the system. Furthermore, the user fixed floating-point negation and memory sanity check bugs.
high-levellanguage-leveldfinityinternethigh-level-language
luc-blaeser/ic
Aug 2023 - Oct 2025
Internet Computer blockchain source: the client/replica software run by nodes
Contributions:2 reviews, 4 PRs, 138 pushes in 2 years 3 months
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