Chris Grenz
Product Lead - Precision Health Data
Rochester, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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SeniorChris Grenz is a product leader with 10 years of focused experience building data platforms and precision health solutions, now leading Precision Health Data at Verily after product and leadership roles at Google and ThoughtWorks. He combines deep technical roots in enterprise data architecture and clinical data integration—shaping FHIR-based APIs and comprehensive health records—with a track record of scaling teams and practices at organizations from Mayo Clinic to startups backed by a16z. Chris is known for translating complex clinical and interoperability requirements into pragmatic, auditable architectures that serve both clinicians and machine consumers. He has repeatedly led turnarounds and rapid growth engagements, growing engineering and EIM teams from small cores to 50–80+ people while maintaining delivery rigor. Based in Rochester, Minnesota, he bridges product strategy and hands-on architecture, prioritizing patient-first data flows that enable research and care. A detail that often gets overlooked: his career blends enterprise BI craftsmanship from early SQL Server/ETL work with cutting-edge health informatics, giving him rare fluency across legacy and modern health data ecosystems.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
161reputation
11kreached
8answers
19questions
Github Skills (23)
java-api9
mhealth8
java8
api7
hl77
health-data7
e-mail6
hl7-fhir6
synthetic-data6
argonaut6
specification6
excel6
reference-implementation6
sqlite6
synthetic6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
chrisgrenz/FHIR-Primer2
May 2019 - Apr 2020
Contributions:7 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
chrisgrenz/FHIR-Primer
Apr 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:40 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 2 months
snippetstechniquesfhir
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