{
  "name": "Lucas Uema Flachs",
  "role": "Founder & Product Engineer",
  "location": "Córdoba, Argentina",
  "description": "Lucas Uema is a founder and product engineer building software products and financial systems across product engineering, payments, Web3, and human-AI interfaces.",
  "summary": [
    "I build software products and financial systems, often from discovery through production. My work spans product engineering, payments, Web3, AI integration, online communities, and founder-led experimentation."
  ],
  "contact": {
    "email": "hi@ecoterreans.com",
    "github": "https://github.com/lucasuema",
    "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucas-uema-flachs",
    "url": "https://www.ecoterreans.com/lucas-uema-flachs"
  },
  "skills": [
    {
      "label": "Frontend",
      "items": [
        "React",
        "TypeScript",
        "Next.js",
        "JavaScript",
        "Tailwind CSS",
        "Front-end architecture",
        "UI/UX"
      ]
    },
    {
      "label": "Backend",
      "items": [
        "APIs",
        "OAuth",
        "Supabase",
        "PostgreSQL",
        "Relational databases",
        "Cloud infrastructure",
        "Webhooks",
        "Git"
      ]
    },
    {
      "label": "Web3",
      "items": [
        "Ethers.js",
        "web3.js",
        "EVM/Web3",
        "ERC-20",
        "ERC-721"
      ]
    },
    {
      "label": "Integrations",
      "items": [
        "Stripe",
        "Google Maps",
        "MCP",
        "Coinbase",
        "POAP",
        "Frankfurter",
        "Mixpanel",
        "Analytics dashboards",
        "Headless CMS",
        "Discord"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "products": [
    {
      "name": "Logggr.com",
      "tagline": "Personal finance and context logging",
      "stats": "75+ users · 11k+ logs · 3+ years",
      "status": "active",
      "url": "https://logggr.com"
    },
    {
      "name": "Incognito.Cash",
      "tagline": "Secure payments for underserved businesses",
      "stats": "163 paying customers · $55k+ payment volume · 1,082 payments",
      "status": "deprecated"
    },
    {
      "name": "Bewee.me",
      "tagline": "IRL on-chain treasure hunts",
      "stats": "15 holders · $BWE ERC-20 · Polygon mainnet",
      "status": "deprecated",
      "links": [
        "https://polygonscan.com/token/0x5c1Da3F1E022c9FcC2092A3d4eED673a6201c8C2#transactions"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "experience": [
    {
      "kind": "work",
      "title": "Founder & product engineer",
      "organization": "Ecoterreans",
      "from": {
        "year": 2024,
        "month": 5
      },
      "to": "present",
      "location": "Córdoba, Argentina",
      "type": "founder",
      "mode": "on-site",
      "highlights": [
        "Build an applied research and product studio focused on software, financial systems, human-AI interfaces, and complex organizations.",
        "Develop software and research through Ecoterreans, while providing advisory work through Meridiano for local businesses and institutions. Translate field observation, user needs, and operational constraints into product decisions, prototypes, and systems."
      ]
    },
    {
      "kind": "work",
      "title": "Founder & product engineer",
      "organization": "logggr.com",
      "from": {
        "year": 2023,
        "month": 7
      },
      "to": "present",
      "location": "Remote",
      "type": "founder",
      "mode": "remote",
      "highlights": [
        "Founded and built a personal finance and context-logging product supporting multiple currencies, including BTC. Own product design, UI/UX, architecture, full-stack implementation, infrastructure, deployment, and privacy.",
        "The product has accumulated 11,000+ logs from 75+ users, with a core group returning consistently over 3+ years.",
        "Built exports, custom context tags, mode-specific settings, localization, and read-only MCP access so user-owned context can be used across compatible AI systems."
      ]
    },
    {
      "kind": "work",
      "title": "Founder & product engineer",
      "organization": "incognito.cash",
      "from": {
        "year": 2024,
        "month": 5
      },
      "to": {
        "year": 2025,
        "month": 4
      },
      "location": "Remote",
      "type": "founder",
      "mode": "remote",
      "highlights": [
        "Built and operated an end-to-end payments platform serving 163 paying customers, with 113 connected accounts and $55k+ in payment volume across 1,082 successful payments.",
        "Owned product architecture, application software, Stripe integrations, payment infrastructure, deployment, fraud controls, privacy, compliance workflows, and customer operations.",
        "Turned stakeholder needs and operational constraints into product architecture and system decisions."
      ]
    },
    {
      "kind": "work",
      "title": "Full-stack Web3 software developer",
      "organization": "Late Checkout",
      "url": "https://latecheckout.studio",
      "from": {
        "year": 2021,
        "month": 5
      },
      "to": {
        "year": 2024,
        "month": 5
      },
      "location": "Canada, Indonesia & global",
      "type": "full-time",
      "mode": "remote",
      "highlights": [
        "Built production Web3 experiences for market-tested collections and major consumer brands using React, TypeScript, Next.js, Ethers.js, smart-contract integrations, and APIs.",
        "Owned features from product scoping and technical research through front-end architecture, implementation, deployment, and iteration while working autonomously across distributed teams.",
        "Built an internal ERC-20 pilot and supporting transaction tooling so the team could test wallet flows, token interactions, and UX firsthand before applying the patterns to client work."
      ]
    },
    {
      "kind": "work",
      "title": "Founder, product owner & front-end developer",
      "organization": "Bewee.me",
      "from": {
        "year": 2019,
        "month": 2
      },
      "to": {
        "year": 2024,
        "month": 1
      },
      "location": "Tokyo, Japan & Córdoba, Argentina",
      "type": "founder",
      "mode": "hybrid",
      "partner": {
        "name": "Checkbox",
        "url": "https://checkbox-innovations.com"
      },
      "advisor": {
        "name": "Seb Borget",
        "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/borgetsebastien/"
      },
      "highlights": [
        "Founded Bewee as an experiment in community-owned urban mobility, defining the product, prototyping the system, building early software, and securing a government pre-seed grant.",
        "Later pivoted the project into IRL on-chain treasure hunts using POAPs and $BWE, deploying the token on Polygon mainnet and running an in-person pilot in Tokyo.",
        "Owned discovery, roadmap, partnerships, experience design, front-end implementation, distribution, and iteration."
      ]
    },
    {
      "kind": "education",
      "title": "Industrial Design",
      "organization": "Universidad Nacional de Córdoba",
      "from": {
        "year": 2014,
        "month": 1
      },
      "to": {
        "year": 2019,
        "month": 12
      },
      "datePrecision": "year",
      "location": "Córdoba, Argentina",
      "type": "degree",
      "highlights": [
        "Graduated in Industrial Design with a focus on product development, systems, prototyping, and human-centered design."
      ]
    },
    {
      "kind": "work",
      "title": "Founding team member & project manager",
      "organization": "The Sandbox",
      "url": "https://sandbox.game",
      "from": {
        "year": 2018,
        "month": 1
      },
      "to": {
        "year": 2019,
        "month": 2
      },
      "location": "Buenos Aires, Argentina",
      "type": "full-time",
      "mode": "remote",
      "highlights": [
        "Joined as the second member of the founding team and helped take the project from inception through acquisition and early growth.",
        "Managed multidisciplinary international teams building a blockchain platform for creators, translating product, ecosystem, and stakeholder needs into roadmaps, specifications, sprints, and delivery.",
        "Worked across product, community, partnerships, and technical teams during the project’s transition from an early-stage experiment into a larger operating organization."
      ]
    },
    {
      "kind": "work",
      "title": "Community manager",
      "organization": "Pixowl",
      "from": {
        "year": 2016,
        "month": 6
      },
      "to": {
        "year": 2018,
        "month": 1
      },
      "location": "Buenos Aires, Argentina",
      "type": "full-time",
      "mode": "on-site",
      "highlights": [
        "Grew and engaged communities across three mobile games. Used product data and direct user relationships to inform growth and product decisions, and brought user feedback into product work."
      ]
    },
    {
      "kind": "work",
      "title": "Game designer",
      "organization": "Nextpeer",
      "from": {
        "year": 2013,
        "month": 1
      },
      "to": {
        "year": 2014,
        "month": 12
      },
      "datePrecision": "year",
      "location": "Tel Aviv, Israel",
      "type": "internship",
      "mode": "on-site",
      "highlights": [
        "Designed game levels and social acquisition mechanics for a multiplayer SDK used by indie mobile-game developers.",
        "Worked at the intersection of game design, growth, and developer tooling during the early mobile gaming era."
      ]
    },
    {
      "kind": "work",
      "title": "Marketing designer",
      "organization": "Senexx",
      "from": {
        "year": 2013,
        "month": 1
      },
      "to": {
        "year": 2013,
        "month": 12
      },
      "datePrecision": "year",
      "location": "Tel Aviv, Israel",
      "type": "internship",
      "mode": "on-site",
      "highlights": [
        "Supported product marketing and growth for an internal knowledge-sharing platform during my first technology internship."
      ]
    }
  ]
}