Lucas Kuzma Email & Phone Number

Hannover, Niedersachsen, DE

Novel view synthesis.

Berlin, DE

• Managing product engineering for the TIER consumer app and its back-end services, supporting a couple dozen engineers and leads across Payments, Activation, Engagement, Shop, Pricing, and CRM teams.
• Led, mentored, and grew an organization of talented managers and engineers
• Collaborated with other engineering leaders to champion and evangelize a technical vision
• Solicited input from key stakeholders across all of product and engineering
• Worked with senior management to define and communicate overall tech strategy and technical roadmap
• Worked with tech leads to ensure adherence to high standards and best practices

Beijing, CN

Designed and led an Introduction to Generative Design course, helping designers learn to code through graphics programming.

Venice, CA, US

• Managed design and development for internal products and platforms as well as customer-facing APIs and SDKs for this Computer Vision startup.Exit to TIER.
• Recruited and managed product and platform engineering teams.
• Worked with ML teams to turn research into products.
• Architected and oversaw the implementation of a regional, containerized, scalable AWS infrastructure. Terraform, ECS, SQS, Docker, Redis, Aurora, Fargate, etc.
• Designed and implemented protocols for observability and data resiliency. New Relic, Cloudwatch, Sumo, etc.
• Interfaced with product and managed design resources while overseeing UI/UX efforts.

Berlin, Berlin, DE

• Led development on a heavily-trafficked music creation app, with rich community and gamification features.
• Expanded and managed the engineering team.
• Coordinated with product and design teams to establish needs and priorities.
• Oversaw development for iOS, Android, and Linux.
• Set up development process, including git flow, project board, and CI/CD.
• Integrated CI/CD with Github, Slack, and Firebase.

• Founded and managed a small consultancy developing and designing applications for web and iOS.
• Recruited and managed small teams of engineers and designers.
• Estimated LOE, timelines, and staffing needs.
• Interfaced directly with Fortune 500 clients.
• Created a series of boutique audio apps, generating over 1 million downloads.
• Led the development of a large-scale, iOS application now installed in over 1000 retail locations.

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Taught intermediate game programming to graduate and undergraduate students.
• Authored lectures introducing students to programming with Flash.
• Helped students realize their game designs, focusing on object oriented programming using Flash as well as Unity.

• Freelance interaction designer and developer.
• Developed award-winning products with small businesses, startups, and agencies.
• Created countless apps, banners, and occasional games using Flash.
• Relied on LAMP stack to build dynamic, data-driven websites with managed content, access control, targeted delivery, and user tracking.
• Wrote a rudimentary 3d engine in ActionScript.
• Built several product configurators using Flash backed by PHP.

• Headed interaction design and development at major online agency.
• Responsed to RFPs with designs, concepts, and prototypes.
• Established sophisticated Flash and Generator workflows for dynamic content delivery.
• Liaised with the graphic design team to synergize UI behavior with brand vision.
• Used Flash and Director to bring animation and interactivity to the web.

St Louis, MO 63141, MO, US

• First tech hire and development lead at the San Francisco office.
• Sole programmer on large-scale Director CD-ROM projects.
• Scripted Flash modules and created Flash/Generator workflows to automate timed content delivery for Disney Online.
• Hired and mentored junior developers.
• Worked closely with designers to help translate concepts into code.

• Handled all programming tasks, helping to turn a 2-man shop into a multi-million dollar company.
• Duties included programming Director, Authorware, IconAuthor, Java and JavaScript.

Cleveland, Ohio, US

• Created a rights-managed text browser for viewing protected content over the Internet.
• Using Microsoft Visual C++ implemented DML rights access API into a desktop client application.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Helped develop support tools on AS/400 mainframes, written in C with extensive use of TCP/IP.

Mfa, Design | Media Art

Ms, Machine Learning For Music Information Retrieval

Bs, Computer Science (Ai Minor)

Ba, Philosophy