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
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Trinsic (feb 2023 – present): Founding engineer in the product team; identity verification software; iterating fast to find product market fit.
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Utah County Gov. (aug 2022 – feb 2023): Web programmer in the information systems department; contract to improve tooling and processes.
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Pluralsight (may 2022 – aug 2022): Software engineering intern.
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Trinsic (nov 2021 – apr 2022): Contractor engineer in the product team; focusing on developer experience and relations.
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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
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Getting Started with Passkeys and WebAuthn (30 min): Talk presented at the UtahJS conference in September 2024.
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Using GitHub Copilot to Learn a New Programming Language (9 min): Lightning talk presented at the UtahJS conference in September 2023.
Miscellanous
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Trinsic Connect (5 min): Try Trinsic Connect. My startup's product demo.
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My git config (1 min): My personal git configuration with the aliases I use.
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My terminal setup (5 min): Instructions on how to configure my custom prompt for the zsh shell with some additional plugins.
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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
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Crafting Interpreters by Robert Nystrom
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Educated by Tara Westover
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Engineering Management for the Rest of Us by Sarah Drasner
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How to Solve It by George Pólya
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Hyperion by Dan Simmons
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Site Reliability Engineering by Niall Richard Murphy, Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, and Jennifer Petoff
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Software Engineering at Google by Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, and Hyrum Wright
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Thanks for the Feedback by Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen
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The Art of Doing Science and Engineering by Richard W. Hamming
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The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
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The Martian by Andy Weir
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The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim
Play
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Another Crab's Treasure by Aggro Crab
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Avowed by Obsidian Entertainment
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Diablo IV by Blizzard Entertainment
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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle by MachineGames and Lucasfilm Games
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance II by Warhorse Studios
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Star Wars Jedi: Survivor by Respawn Entertainment
Watch
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Breaking Bad by Vince Gilligan
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Good Will Hunting by Gus Van Sant
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Oppenheimer by Christopher Nolan
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Severance by Dan Erickson
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The Expanse by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby
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The Shawshank Redemption by Frank Darabont