Lukas Vordemann

About

I’m a product-focused entrepreneur based in Zurich. I like working at the forefront of technology, especially on intelligent, interactive systems, privacy and transparent AI.

Since September 2026 I’m building a new startup, still in stealth. Before that I spent three and a half years as the first CEO of Egonym, where we took an AI face anonymisation technology from research to revenue, until the technology was acquired by a big tech company. Before that I studied computer science in Munich, Stockholm and Zurich and did research on human-computer interaction and robotics.

Outside of work you’ll find me in nature, dancing salsa, cooking, and lately fermenting far too many things.

Experience

  1. 2026 – today

    Founder · Stealth startup

    Building something new. More soon.

  2. 2022 – 2026

    CEO · Egonym AG, Zurich

    First CEO of Egonym. Took a novel AI face anonymisation technology from 0 to 1, until the technology was acquired by one of the big five tech companies.

  3. 2021 – 2022

    Student Researcher · Ericsson, Stockholm

    Safe reinforcement learning for mobile robot navigation in autonomous warehouses. 20% fewer collisions than unshielded training.

  4. 2020 – 2021

    Co-founder · icebreaker.science

    Nonprofit platform for newcomer researchers in chemistry. Raised €42k from the Carl Zeiss Foundation and handed it over to the German Chemical Society.

  5. 2020

    Co-founder · PIRAT

    Pandemic resource allocation tool. Took 20 volunteers from idea to public launch in under a month, live in four countries.

  6. 2018 – 2021

    Student Researcher & Research Assistant · ETH Zurich, TUM

    Started as a student researcher at ETH’s AIT Lab in 2018 and stayed on as a full-time research assistant (eye tracking for adaptive UIs). Later robotics and urban data research at TUM.

Education

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