Welcome! My name is Lucas, and I'm a software engineer based in Austin, TX.

I'm a founding engineer at Trinsic, writing code primarily in TypeScript with React, and in C# with ASP.NET. We help people use digital credentials to get their identity verified online more quickly and securely.

I'm also a husband, father, latter-day saint, gamer, and life-long learner.

Work Experience

• Trinsic (feb 2023 – present): Founding engineer in the product team; identity verification software; iterating fast to find product market fit.

• Utah County Gov. (aug 2022 – feb 2023): Web programmer in the information systems department; contract to improve tooling and processes.

• Pluralsight (may 2022 – aug 2022): Software engineering intern.

• Trinsic (nov 2021 – apr 2022): Contractor engineer in the product team; focusing on developer experience and relations.

• Utah County Gov. (jun 2020 – aug 2021): Web programmer in the information systems department; contract to develop a COVID-19 vaccination appointment scheduler.

Links

My Talks

• Getting Started with Passkeys and WebAuthn (30 min): Talk presented at the UtahJS conference in September 2024.

  Talk notes

• Using GitHub Copilot to Learn a New Programming Language (9 min): Lightning talk presented at the UtahJS conference in September 2023.

  Talk notes

Miscellanous

• Trinsic Connect (5 min): Try Trinsic Connect. My startup's product demo.

• My git config (1 min): My personal git configuration with the aliases I use.

• My terminal setup (5 min): Instructions on how to configure my custom prompt for the zsh shell with some additional plugins.

• Resources for Coding Problems and Interviews (1 min): Compiled resources that helped me prepare for coding interviews during my senior year in college.

2025 Fun List

My list of things I want to read, play, and watch in 2025.

Read

• Crafting Interpreters by Robert Nystrom

• Educated by Tara Westover

• Engineering Management for the Rest of Us by Sarah Drasner

• How to Solve It by George Pólya

• Hyperion by Dan Simmons

• Site Reliability Engineering by Niall Richard Murphy, Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, and Jennifer Petoff

• Software Engineering at Google by Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, and Hyrum Wright

• Thanks for the Feedback by Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen

• The Art of Doing Science and Engineering by Richard W. Hamming

• The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman

• The Martian by Andy Weir

• The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim

Play

• Another Crab's Treasure by Aggro Crab

• Avowed by Obsidian Entertainment

• Diablo IV by Blizzard Entertainment

• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle by MachineGames and Lucasfilm Games

• Kingdom Come: Deliverance II by Warhorse Studios

• Star Wars Jedi: Survivor by Respawn Entertainment

Watch

• Breaking Bad by Vince Gilligan

• Good Will Hunting by Gus Van Sant

• Oppenheimer by Christopher Nolan

• Severance by Dan Erickson

• The Expanse by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby

• The Shawshank Redemption by Frank Darabont