Lucas Hendren
Senior Software Engineer at Anorak Ventures
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolLucas Hendren is a senior software engineer and technical leader with nine years of experience building scalable AI/ML, blockchain, and distributed systems across startups and hyperscale companies. He co-founded and served as CTO of SimplyVital Health, creating one of the first HIPAA-compatible blockchain protocols (Health Nexus) to enable governed, transactable healthcare data rather than proprietary ownership. Lucas has led engineering teams through rapid scaling—growing an org from 2 to 20+ engineers—and rebuilt backend platforms using microservices, Kafka, Docker, and Kubernetes while driving system design for AI/ML and infra. He’s delivered production AI/ML infrastructure at Facebook/Meta for AR/VR, contributed to clinical trial tooling and ML research at Verily/Alphabet, and recently worked on Starlink before joining AWS to focus on AI/ML performance. Equally comfortable in C++, Java, and Python, he pairs deep low-level systems chops with product-minded leadership and a background in security research and smart-contract auditing. Based in San Francisco, he combines entrepreneurial grit with academic grounding from UIUC and a Stanford AI graduate certificate.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering and Enginering Physics, BS Electrical Engineering and Enginering Physics at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignArtificial Intelligence Graduate Certificate, Artificial Intelligence Graduate Certificate at Stanford University
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tensorflow
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ethereum
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Github Skills (93)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
lhendre/go-ethereum
Jul 2018 - May 2022
Official Go implementation of the Ethereum protocol
Contributions:2 PRs, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
ethereumgolangblockchainethereum-protocol
Health-Nexus/KeyManager
Jan 2018 - Nov 2019
Contributions:27 PRs, 74 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 10 months
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