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Lucas
Porter‑Bakker
Designer. Hacker. 5x founder.
Currently Head of Design @ Maket AI.
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Head of Design // Maket AI
Architectural intelligence and generative design platform for homes.
Montreal, Canada
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Head of Product & Design // PDS
Permaweb apps and infrastructure (AR.IO, Turbo, ArNS), scaled 0 to 1M+ users.
New York, USA
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Entrepreneur in Residence // Arweave
Innovation lab bringing 0-to-1 web3 startups to life. Backed by a16z and Coinbase.
Berlin, Germany
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Founder & Head of Design // PitchBlackACQUIRED
Full-stack creative studio delivering trend-setting work for world-class brands.
Toronto, Canada
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Head of Product & Design // PowerMarket
AI CleanTech for smart cities, backed by the European Space Agency, Techstars, and Oxford.
London, UK
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Designer // Arcadis City of 2030
Shaping how cities live, work, and travel by 2030.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Product Designer in Residence // Techstars
Global accelerator for smart-city startups.
Turin, Italy
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CPO & Co-Founder // SAASport
AI-powered fintech toolkit for recurring billing in China.
Shanghai, China
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CEO & Co-Founder // GOJI
Social learning platform: 75,000+ tutors and students, 100+ countries.
Toronto, Canada
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Engineering Mentor // Le Wagon
The #1 ranked coding school for entrepreneurs.
Shanghai, China
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CEO & Co-Founder // Westgroup
Leading Canadian education provider in Zhejiang Province.
Hangzhou, China
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ar.io
Head of Product & Design
Global network, protocol, and currency powering the permaweb.
Blockchain protocol
turbo
Head of Product & Design
Fast-finality payment rails for the permaweb, via crypto or fiat.
Fintech
ardrive
Director of Design
Award-winning storage apps loved by 100K+ users and organizations including Nike (RTFKT) and Metaplex.
Data storage
arns
Head of Product & Design
Connects friendly names to permanent applications, pages, data, or identities.
DNS protocol
reeve
Co-Founder & Lead Developer
The back office for small Canadian municipalities — grants, records, replies.
Govtech
unruggable design system
Creator
MCP-parsable components and tokens to help builders ship fast.
Design system
signhow
Lead Developer
The first global sign language dictionary. 300K+ daily visits.
Edtech
photography
Award-Winning Photographer
Freelance photography projects in over 50 countries since 2007.
Fine art
education
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Master of Arts (M.A) // Behavioural Economics
University of Ghent, Belgium
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Master of Science (M.Sc) // Business, Law & Economics
Aix-Marseille University, France
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Master of Laws (LL.M) // Philosophy of Law
Erasmus School of Law, Netherlands
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Bachelor of Arts (B.A) // Political Science & Foreign Languages
Concordia University, Canada
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Minor (B.A) // Chinese Language & Culture · Summa Cum Laude
Bei Wai University, China
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Foundation Programme (FYP) // Humanities
University of King's College, Canada
professional
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Startup School // Y Combinator
San Francisco, USA
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Full-Stack Development & Software Engineering // Le Wagon
Shanghai, China
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HSK 4 · Business Chinese // Hutong School
Shanghai, China