Lucas Schuermann
Founder at Variational
George Town, Cayman Islands
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolLucas Schuermann is a founder and seasoned software leader with 11 years of experience building research-driven products and teams across startups, academia, and industry. He founded Variational and previously led engineering at Genesis after entrepreneurial stints including Qu Capital, combining hands-on engineering with strategic product direction. His background spans research and teaching roles at Columbia and early-stage engineering at Google and X, reflecting a blend of deep technical rigor and applied innovation. Trained in computer science and applied mathematics at Columbia with further study at Stanford, he brings quantitative problem-solving to system design and product strategy. Based in George Town, Cayman Islands, he favors directing inquiries to his personal site (lvs.io), suggesting a deliberate, privacy-minded approach to professional engagement. Notably, his career weaves together academic research, quant finance exposure, and moonshot engineering, enabling him to translate speculative ideas into executable ventures.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at University of OklahomaBS Computer Science Applied Mathematics, BS Computer Science Applied Mathematics at Columbia UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Stanford University
Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (18)
smoothed-particle-hydrodynamics9
cpp9
fluid-simulation8
programming-language8
simulation8
system-programming8
webgl7
rust7
python6
youtube5
asdf4
physics-engine4
javascript3
typescript3
zsh2
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
lucas-schuermann/pcisph
Jan 2016 - Dec 2022
Predictive-Corrective Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) implementation in 2D for CS4167 final project
Contributions:28 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years
smoothed-particle-hydrodynamics
lucas-schuermann/mueller-sph
May 2016 - Dec 2022
A concise 2D implementation of Müller's interactive smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) paper in C++
Contributions:29 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 8 months
cppsmoothed-particle-hydrodynamics
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.