Lucas Santoni

Software Engineer & Tech Executive

WORK EXPERIENCE

Cryptio

Since 2026 — Principal Engineer, Strategic Technology Initiatives

Transitioned from CTO after the Series B to refocus on hands-on engineering. Leading the Platform Team on foundational projects centered on performance and scalability. Driving the adoption of AI coding tools across the engineering organization.

2021–2026 — Chief Technical Officer

Joined at pre-seed to build the engineering organization and the foundations of the product from scratch. Recruited dozens of engineers, mentored ICs and middle managers, structured teams and delivery as the company grew to 110+ people serving 450+ enterprises across 30+ countries, including Circle, Laser Digital, and Consensys.

Took the product from MVP to millions in ARR and over $3T in processed transaction volume. As a member of the leadership team, supported the CEO on strategy and on the seed, Series A, and $45M Series B rounds. Owned the company's SOC 1 and SOC 2 audits with PwC.

Epitech

Since 2019 — Cybersecurity Teacher

Teaching cybersecurity modules to engineering students (reverse engineering, binary exploitation, and web security) through lectures, hands-on labs, and CTF-style assignments.

Vente-Privee (now Veepee)

2018 — Software Engineer Intern

Maintained open-source Go tool InfluxDB Relay and contributed to a C++ driver for a robotic system for automated product photography.

Thales

2017 — Cybersecurity Engineer Intern

Conducted research on deception applied to database security under the supervision of Nizar Kheir, PhD, and eventually filed a patent.

Freelance Work

Since 2017

Collaborated with various clients, such as Sony Music. Worked on a wide range of projects, from OCR pipelines in Python to large scale web scraping in JavaScript.

EDUCATION

Master's degree in Information Technology

Epitech Paris (France) — 2021

MSc in Computational Intelligence

University Of Kent (United Kingdom) — 2020

Certificate of Proficiency in English (C2)

University Of Cambridge — 2015

SKILLS

Engineering

Comfortable across the stack and across paradigms. Strong bias for picking the right tool for the problem, rather than defending a familiar language or framework.

Leadership & Delivery

Hired and mentored dozens of engineers and middle managers. Structured teams, processes, and delivery from a single developer to multiple autonomous squads. Comfortable owning roadmap and stakeholder communication alongside technical decisions.

Computer Security

Self-taught foundations in reverse engineering, binary exploitation, and web security. Years of CTFs paired with enterprise security work: compliance, audits, and operations.

Languages & Communication

Native French, fluent English. At ease with public speaking and technical writing in either language.

EXTRACURRICULAR

PoC

2018 — Student Organization Co-Founder

Co-founded PoC and led its cybersecurity department for two years. Gave dozens of talks and trainings, organized a cybersecurity bootcamp .

CONTACT

Updated May 2026