Lucas H.

I build systems for ops + revenue

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.3k followers
Skeffleex-UNSW Foundersex-JDoodle

I help founders build their growth engine with AI, without hiring more I founded Skeffle because I saw the same problem over and over: founders know they need better prospecting, better content, better workflows but they're too busy building their product to set any of it up.

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And agencies charge $10k/month for strategy decks that gather At Skeffle, we ship systems, not - Founder-led content engines (LinkedIn posts + social selling)- AI prospecting and outbound- Kick-ass lead magnets- Workflow automations that eliminate manual GTM tasks- AI training and workshops for teamsWho it's for: Startup teams with 10–50 employees who are doing GTM manually and want to scale without headcount.

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GTM Index

  1. SKEFFLEJOB
    1. Founder & GTM Eng
      1Y 5M
  2. HOOGLYJOB
    1. GTM Eng
      1M
    2. GTM Lead
      1Y
  3. UNSW FOUNDERSJOB
    1. Ops Lead
      7M
  4. JDOODLEJOB
    1. Head of Growth
      2M
    2. GTM Lead
      1Y
  5. UNSWJOB
    1. Founders 10x Program Mgr
      2Y 1M
    2. Course Convenor: Creative…
      9M
    3. MCIC Programming Mgr
      8M
  6. UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEYJOB
    1. INCiTE Summer School Acade…
      2M
    2. SPARK Program Mentor
      1Y 5M
  7. SYDNEY SCHOOL OF ENTREPRENEURSHIPJOB
    1. Growth Program Lead
      1Y
  8. INCUBATE STARTUP PROGRAMJOB
    1. Program Mgr (Entrepreneurs…
      8M
    2. Associate Program Mgr
      1Y
  9. WESTPAC GROUPJOB
    1. Associate Consultant, Stra…
      1Y 3M
    2. Group Technology Graduate
      10M
  10. BTJOB
    1. Associate Business Analyst
      6M

Time in market 9Y 6MOpen 3Closed 15Stints 18

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  1. Job: Skeffle — Founder & GTM Engineer · 2025-03 – present · 1y 5mo — I've always been a nerd who loves building systems to make things run smoothly. Skeffle works with startups and SMEs to grow revenue and improve efficiency without growing headcount or burning mega bucks wasting tokens.
  2. Job: Hoogly — GTM Engineer · 2026-07 – present · 1 mo — Building the systems to grow Hoogly.
  3. Job: Hoogly — Go-to-market Lead · 2025-08 – 2026-08 · 1y — Hoogly is reinventing employee engagement. Venn, our AI culture coach, chats privately with every employee—so they can speak freely and be truly heard. You don't just collect data. You unlock trust.
  4. Job: UNSW Founders — Ops Lead · 2025-04 – 2025-11 · 7 mo — UNSW 10x Accelerator programs (Health, Defence, Climate, and All Industries) help founders grow and become investment and impact-ready. Startups will receive seed funding and 10 weeks of accelerated learning from experts and mentors.
  5. Job: JDoodle — Head of Growth · 2025-01 – 2025-03 · 2 mo — I'm building doodle.new, JDoodle's new growth product. Imagine talking to a UI developer who can build React apps in seconds. I'm looking for case studies, get free credits and backlinks from our main site (jdoodle.com, 400k+ monthly visitors) if you build something cool - DM me!
  6. Job: JDoodle — Go-To-Market Lead · 2024-01 – 2025-01 · 1y — At JDoodle we're helping programmers radically simplify their coding environments for application development, teaching and learning 🚀
  7. Job: UNSW — Founders 10x Program Manager · 2022-03 – 2024-04 · 2y 1mo — Time to 10x your startup? 🚀 I'm here to help! We're supporting and investing in incredible UNSW-affiliated* startups this year through the Founders 10x accelerator: get in touch if you this could be you! *Founder is alumni, staff or student of UNSW, or alternatively is not affiliated but developing a healthtech or synthetic biology startup.
  8. Job: UNSW — Course Convenor: Creative Entrepreneurship · 2021-07 – 2022-04 · 9 mo — GENE1500 Creative Entrepreneurship is an undergraduate course for UNSW students who want to tackle unsolved problems in the world through entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is best learnt through first-hand experience. Creative Entrepreneurship (GENE1500) aims to provide practical experience to teach students the foundational skillset necessary to embark on an entrepreneurial venture with real-world impact
  9. Job: UNSW — MCIC Programming Manager · 2021-07 – 2022-03 · 8 mo — - Piloted 2x cohorts of Entrepreneurial HDR small group program, with 4.67/5 satisfaction rating - Led delivery of GENE1500 Creative Entrepreneurship - Designed the startup workshop series and led recruitment activities for the Peter Farrell Cup, a prestigious entrepreneurship competition for students with $20k+ in prize money
  10. Job: University of Sydney — INCiTE Summer School Academic Lead · 2021-05 – 2021-07 · 2 mo — INCiTE Summer School is a global mobility program developing students' entrepreneurial capabilities and intercultural competency, with students from Australia, China, Scotland, The Netherlands and Singapore. I am the University of Sydney's academic representative.
  11. Job: University of Sydney — SPARK Program Mentor · 2020-01 – 2021-06 · 1y 5mo — The SPARK Mentoring program offers personalised coaching support to students at the School of Computer Science who are pursuing a startup idea. I have been involved in three semesters of the program since January 2020.
  12. Job: Sydney School of Entrepreneurship — Growth Program Lead · 2020-07 – 2021-07 · 1y — - Led the end-to-end development and delivery of SSE’s first public paid offering, Innovate Like a Startup Founder, in partnership with TAFE NSW - Leveraged the channel partnership with TAFE NSW to effect a 7x increase in enrolments in 3 months - Led the project to refactor three SSE units of study to online-only flipped learning over three months. - Delivered these units of study with record participation and completion rates - Implemented a product development methodology and product roadmap now in use by the Entrepreneurship team
  13. Job: INCUBATE Startup Program — Program Manager (Entrepreneurship Education) · 2019-11 – 2020-07 · 8 mo — INCUBATE is the multi award-winning startup program at the University of Sydney Union. My responsibility is to develop and deliver programs to support early-stage startups and creative entrepreneurs.
  14. Job: INCUBATE Startup Program — Associate Program Manager · 2018-11 – 2019-11 · 1y — Some of the things I've done so far in my role at INCUBATE: - Redeveloped the Proto entrepreneurial education program using a Design Thinking approach to ensure the needs of the INCUBATE community were met - Created the ProtoX peer mentoring program for early-stage startups - Guest lectured for units of study at the University of Sydney (ENGD3001 and ELEC3610) - Oversaw a biannual startup pitch competition - Supported hundreds of founders through the above programs and one-on-one mentoring - Developed new relationships with external parties to deliver events and workshops to the INCUBATE community
  15. Job: Westpac Group — Associate Consultant, Strategy & Architecture · 2017-08 – 2018-11 · 1y 3mo — I was engaged in the setup and continuous improvement of the Automation Centre of Excellence: - Working with Solutions Architects and subject matter experts to build the frameworks and tools that are used group-wide to assess the suitability of candidate business processes for automation with a variety of tools. - Building the pipeline management and reporting tools used to manage demand for automation - Building relationships with business partners to support their automation projects - Assessing candidate processes for automation, with consideration to customer needs as well as GroupTech and Business Unit strategy Solutions Consulting is an internal technology consultancy serving the…
  16. Job: Westpac Group — Group Technology Graduate · 2017-02 – 2017-12 · 10 mo
  17. Job: BT — Associate Business Analyst · 2017-02 – 2017-08 · 6 mo — BT Panorama is a new wealth management platform for advisers and retail clients. My responsibilities included: Facilitating discussions between subject matter experts in business and technology Requirements elicitation and management Elaborating user stories with detailed acceptance criteria Contributing to a scrum team within a scaled agile framework This role helped develop my understanding of: Wealth Management Corporate Actions STP Avaloq Scaled Agile Scrum
  18. School: University of Sydney — Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science and Music

Skills

automationGTM EngineeringWorkflow AutomationGo-to-marketBizopsOperations ManagementAI AgentsGrowthAI Product ManagementLecturingAcademic Program DevelopmentStartup CoachingEntrepreneurship EducationLean StartupAgileProduct ManagementLearning DesignScrumSoftware DevelopmentLarge Language Models (LLM)Startups

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