Lucas Bateson

Software for understanding systems.

Simulation, infrastructure, and numerical methods. Two years shipping NAV’s pension frontend, now heading into Cybernetics and Robotics at NTNU.

Trondheim, Norway

Now

Preparatory engineering year (forkurs) at NTNU.

Building kiln, the successor to Foundry.

Extending Propagator toward guidance and navigation.

Updated October 2026

Talks

Perspektiver på IT-utviklingslærlinger i offentlig sektor

JavaZone 2024 · Oslo Spektrum · with Dervis Mansuroglu

Apprenticeships as a path into software development in the public sector, from the apprentice’s side and the engineering lead’s.

Projects

Oxidize

Real-time voxel rendering as a performance study.

Chunked world representation with dynamic meshing.

Mesh generation pipeline optimized for real-time updates.

Performance profiling under varying world sizes.

Propagator

Composable state propagation for physical systems.

RK4 numerical integration with adaptive stepping.

Composable force pipeline — gravity, drag, thrust.

Environment and reference frame modeling.

Work

Apprentice Software Developer

NAV IT · 2024–2026

Pension frontend in production, with strict requirements for correctness, accessibility, and long-term maintainability. Completed apprenticeship with fagprøve (trade certification).

Software Development Intern

Visma, Intility, Glasspaper · 2023–2024

Data analysis, cloud infrastructure, and internal tooling across short-term placements.

Programming Instructor

Oslo Kommune

Teaching programming to children through hands-on projects.

Education

NTNU

Preparatory engineering year (forkurs) · 2026–2027

Fyrstikkalleen VGS

Information Technology and Media Production · 2022–2024