Experience

Lucas Scariot

Engineering leader and exited founder, from first code and first hires through international scale, acquisition, and a 25m+ rides platform.

Product & engineering at Voggt
25
European markets
7
Voggt outcome
Acquired 2024
Veezu platform scale
25m+ rides

I'm Lucas. I have spent ten years building products, teams, and companies from the inside.

I started at Wing in 2016, then joined Forest Admin as one of the first engineers in 2017. After that I led Trust, Safety & Identity work at Yubo. In 2021 I co-founded Voggt as CTO, a live-commerce marketplace. I led product, engineering, and data from MVP through Seed and Series A, built the organisation to 25 people inside a 100-person company, and expanded across seven European markets. Fanatics Live acquired Voggt in 2024.

I'm now VP of Engineering at Veezu, leading organisation, delivery, and platform strategy for a UK-wide, multi-brand business serving 25m+ rides.

On the side, I write and occasionally work with founders on the parts of company building that get messy fast: hiring, product judgement, architecture, process, and data.

Most of the thinking ends up on my Substack newsletter Building Forward. No polished manuals, mostly lessons from the work while it is happening.

The path so far

A few clear chapters: early startup engineering, trust and safety at scale, founding, acquisition, and now Veezu.

  1. 2025

    VP of Engineering at Veezu

    Leading organisation, delivery and platform strategy for a multi-brand UK platform serving 25m+ rides.
  2. 2024

    Voggt acquired

    Fanatics Live acquired Voggt in 2024.
  3. 2021

    Co-founder & CTO at Voggt

    Led product, engineering and data from MVP through funding, a 25-person product and engineering organisation, and seven European markets.
  4. 2018

    Lead Software Engineer · Trust, Safety & Identity at Yubo

    Led Trust, Safety & Identity engineering. Built a cross-functional team of 5 for a platform serving tens of millions of users.
  5. 2017

    Software Engineer (Founding) at Forest Admin

    One of the first four employees. Full-stack across Python, Node.js, Ruby on Rails, and GraphQL. Pre-revenue to Series A.
  6. 2016

    Software Engineer at Wing

    First engineering role.

What I keep coming back to

A few things I have learned from building teams, products, and companies.

  1. 01

    Make the problem plain

    Most work slows down when the words get vague. I like naming the trade-off, the owner, and what would change our mind.
  2. 02

    Stay close to the work

    Advice is better when it comes from real constraints: code, hiring, customers, incidents, and messy meetings.
  3. 03

    Ship something real

    I trust small things in users' hands more than a perfect story in a deck.
  4. 04

    Write it down

    Writing makes weak thinking visible. If a decision is hard to explain, it probably is not clear enough yet.

Writing

substack

Building Forward

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Leadership, collaboration, or a difficult scaling problem. Send the context.

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