Summary
Lucas Martins is a technology evaluator and engineering leader with 17 years of experience helping startups build high-performance product and engineering teams from the ground up. Based in Santa Catarina, Brazil, he has scaled teams from single-digit to 15 engineers as CTO at GeekHunter and co-founded product and automation-heavy startups where he architected cloud-native systems, Kubernetes deployments, and advanced data extraction pipelines. Lucas specializes in technical due diligence for accelerators (HARDS, Darwin Startups), blending hands-on engineering judgment with people processes like TDD, CI/CD, mentoring, and recruitment optimization to raise team delivery and reliability. He’s pragmatic about complexity—introducing architectural change only when it delivers clear business value—and has measurable outcomes like cutting outages dramatically and accelerating deployment cadence.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Estácio de Sá University
English, Portuguese