Summary
Lucas Kern is a software engineer and entrepreneur with nine years of experience building secure, full-stack applications and cloud architectures across healthcare and enterprise domains. As Co-Founder and CTO of Whir he leads React/React Native front-ends, Go backends, and AWS architecture, while also contributing as a Software Developer II at Oracle. His background includes a multi-year tenure at Cerner focused on secure engineering—bringing security-first practices into the development lifecycle—and early IT support experience at Iowa State that sharpened his customer-facing problem-solving. Comfortable shipping production systems and prototypes from hackathons to internships to startups, he blends practical engineering with a knack for operationalizing security and scalable server design.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Iowa State University