Lucas Budman is a founder and CEO with 11+ years leading engineering and analytics teams to build commercial Big Data, machine learning, and high-performance computing products across finance, retail, healthcare, and education. He founded TRUU after serving as CTO through an acquisition at CenturyLink Cognilytics, combining hands-on system architecture with product leadership to help organizations monetize data as a strategic asset. His background spans early architecture and research roles in supply chain and energy systems through to leading data science and cloud-native platform teams, reflecting a knack for turning complex distributed systems into production-ready solutions. Based in Denver, he pairs a BS in Computer Science Engineering with graduate work in CS and finance, enabling tight alignment between technical tradeoffs and business value. An uncommon thread in his career is consistent movement between research-driven roles and commercial productization, giving him both deep technical fluency and startup-scale execution experience.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Finance, Masters Finance at University of Colorado Denver
BS Computer Science Engineering, BS Computer Science Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder
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