Lucas PorterBakker

lucas.porter.bakker@gmail.com

EXPERIENCE

Head of Product and Design A suite of web3 apps and infrastructure

ar.io that power the permaweb: a decentralized
web, comprised of a set of modular and
interchangeable protocols. Backed by some
New York, USA of the world’s leading blockchain funds.

Enterpreneur in Residence A global hard drive protocol built on

Open Web Foundry // Arweave
Berlin, Germany
two novel technologies: the blockweave,
a derivative of the blockchain, and a
proof of access algorithm. Funded by
investors including Coinbase Ventures
and Andreessen Horowitz.

Director of Design A web3 platform of open-source apps,

ArDrive developer tools, and libraries that enable
users to permanently upload, manage, secure,
and share their data - from their own
New York, USA browsers, desktops, and mobile devices.

Head of Product and Design An AI-powered CleanTech platform

PowerMarket enabling smarter-cities. Backed by
some of the world’s leading scientific
and venture capital funds, such as the
European Space Agency, Techstars,
London, UK and the University of Oxford.

Designer Arcadis City of 2030 Smart-Cities

Arcadis City of 2030 Powered by Techstars
focuses on the future of cities, shaping
how we will live, work, and travel by
Amsterdam, Netherlands 2030.

Product Designer Techstars Smart Mobility

Techstars focuses on transformative
technologies with a concentration
on smart infrastructure and
Turin, Italy smart cities.

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Co-Founder and CEO GOJI is an award-winning social
GOJI learning platform and international
education community, with 75,000+
tutors and students from over 100
Toronto, Canada countries.

Ambassador & Engineering Mentor One of four ambassadors selected to

nakedHUB x Le Wagon lead an initiative by the world’s top-ranked coding
and design school: to help accelerate the
startup ecosystem in China through advancing
technical skills for founders - via teaching,
Shanghai, China mentoring, and designing programs.

Product Manager & Lead Developer
SignHow
Queensland, Australia
The first global sign language
dictionary created by the community. A
crowd-sourced, visual platform, built to
empower deaf communities around the
world with access to free education. In
wide-use today, at 300,000+ daily visits.

Co-Founder & CPO The first toolkit for SaaS in China. A

SASSport one-line of code solution to adapt your
SaaS model to the Chinese market,
enabling companies to accept Union
Shanghai, China Pay, Alipay, and WeChat in seconds.

Co-Founder & CEO I founded Westgroup along with six

West group co-founders; which we established as a
wholly foreign-owned enterprise (WFOE)
in Hangzhou, China. During my time as
CEO, Westgroup grew from being newly
licensed to the foremost Canadian
education company in Zhejiang
Province, having taught thousands of
students, and expanded into marketing,
training, and technology. Westgroup
worked with Chinese governmental
organizations, state-owned enterprises,
international companies and
businesses, universities, and managed a
portfolio of private clients; including
Fortune 100 companies, and nonprofits.
We also collaborated on numerous G20
projects with the Chinese government
and won the national public bid for
Hangzhou, China Xiaoshan International Airport.

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ACADEMIC EDUCATION

University of Ghent Master of Arts / M.A.

Ghent, Belgium Behavioural Economics

Aix-Marseille University Master of Science / M.Sc.

Business, Law and Economics

Thesis: Masters Thesis: The Political
Aix-en-Provence, France Economy of Investment Law

Erasmus School of Law Master of Laws / LL.M.

Rotterdam, Netherlands Philosophy of Law, Law and Economics

Concordia University Bachelor of Arts / B.A.

Political Science and Foreign Languages

Montreal, Canada (French, Spanish, Chinese)

北外 Foreign Studies University Minor Degree / B.A.

Chinese Language and Culture

Beijing, China [Summa Cum Laude]

University of King’s College Foundation Year Programme

Humanities, Liberal Arts & Sciences

Canada’s most prestigious humanities
Nova Scotia, Canada program.

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

Y Combinator Startup School

Top-ranked program globally,

San Francisco for entrepreneurs.

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Chinaccelerator x Accelerator
Lean Venture Par tners
Lean methodology, product market fit,
rapid-iteration, MVPs, user acquisition,
traction-building, growth-hacking,
product, management, strategic
positioning, branding, financial
Shanghai, China modelling, and fundraising.

Le Wagon Fullstack Development and Engineering

Frontend:
JAMstack (JavaScript, APIs, Markup),
Redux, SCSS (SASS), HTML5,
and Bootstrap, CSS library coding with
Flexbox and Grid, PUG, HAML, Gulp,
ChartJS, Babel, JS (ES6), jQuery, Parsing,
and AJAX;

Backend:
Ruby, Python, PHP, NodeJS, OOP (Object-
Oriented Programming) and software
engineering with MVC, Relational
Database Design & queries with SQL,
MySQL, Postgresql, and MongoDB;

Frameworks:
Rails, React, Laravel,
WeChat Framework (mini-apps) using WXML;
Angular, Vue JS;

Design:
Adobe Creative Cloud (Illustrator, PS,
XD, InDesign), Graphic; Wireframes,
mockups, and prototypes via Figma,
Sketch, InVision, Marvel, Principle, and
Zeplin;

Devops and Other:

Git, GitHub, AWS, GCP, GitLab, and
Shanghai, China Jira.

Hutong School HSK 4

Hanban Language Certification and

Business Chinese via Peking University
Beijing, China in Beijing.

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