Lucas O'Brien
Customer Success & Applied AI. Senior CSM at Juniper Square, with a concurrent applied-AI role shipping internal tools in Claude Code. I connect revenue and retention goals to shipped apps for CS and GTM.
Contributions
Years building
Recent roles
Ship internal apps with Claude Code from discovery through delivery—tooling that contextualizes customer data, speeds CS responses, and automates account health scoring.
115% net retention across 70+ accounts (~$6.3M ARR) with technical enablement, expansion, and scaled digital engagement.
Scaled onboarding and adoption playbooks across CX; led early AI product adoption with technical enablement and stakeholder alignment.
Partnered with Product to streamline quarterly reporting across ~$250B in equity—~40% faster delivery via analytics and process redesign.
~$4.5M pipeline to ~$1.2M new ARR through technical discovery; built Python/SQL tooling for pipeline and reporting.
Enterprise technical demos and discovery; consistently above 120% of quota.
What I work in
Field notes
- CurrentlyApplied AI at Juniper Square (concurrent with Senior CSM)—B2B investment management software
- Impact115% net retention across 70+ accounts (~$6.3M ARR); $1.7M expansion ARR in 2025 from usage-led motions
- EarlierHackerRank—enterprise pipeline and technical discovery; built Python/SQL tooling for reporting
- EducationUCSB B.S. Economics; Professional Graduate Certificate in Technology Management
- AlsoTravel and photography when the light is right
“Translate the business case into something shipped—then scale it for the team.”
Schools
- University of California, Santa Barbara2014 → 2018B.S. Economics
June 2018. Professional Graduate Certificate in Technology Management.
Coding · last 30 days
Things I've made
- lucas-obrien.comLive - Always Tinkering
This portfolio—bento dashboard with live tiles (GitHub, Spotify, travel globe, photos).
#next.js#tailwind#posthog - Scout VCLive
Seed-stage due diligence AI tool.
#ai#due diligence#seed - Applied AI internal toolingBuilding
Production internal apps at Juniper Square—Claude Code, CS/GTM workflows, health and knowledge automation.
#claude code#internal tools#cs - E-ink commuter dashboardBuilding
Pulls weather, calendar, and SF Muni transit data onto a low-power e-ink display. Built end-to-end with Cursor and Claude Code.
#esp32#python#e-ink - PromptOpsArchive
AI model eval tool.
#ai#eval - Pipeline & reporting utilitiesArchive
Python/SQL tooling for pipeline tracking and reporting (HackerRank era).
#python#sql
Where I've been
Very very amateur photographer
Renewal defenseDefend the account. Ten quarters to renewal.WIP
One lane, four motions—defend the account through ten quarters. Best quarter cleared 0.
10 quarter side quest