Sean Ahrens
Founder & Principal at Simuna Product Lab
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolSean Ahrens is a technical founder and operational leader with 15+ years building startups at the intersection of health, open-source, and applied AI, including founding Crohnology (YC S12) and scaling it to 15K patients and a $4.5M raise. He blends hands-on engineering and product leadership with policy and governance expertise—an Aspen Policy Academy Fellow who has briefed Meta and congressional staff and had policy recommendations adopted by San Francisco. At Simuna Product Lab he designs and ships agentic AI automations and AI-powered software end-to-end, translating complex technical tradeoffs into clear decisions for non-technical stakeholders. Currently pivoting full-time into AI Safety, governance, and strategy, he’s upskilling with BlueDot’s AGI curriculum and researching the AI × Democracy nexus he believes is underexplored. Unusually cross-disciplinary, he pairs venture-building experience and community stewardship with published research and awarded grants, making him effective at both urgent technical execution and long-run institutional design. He’s seeking roles where his mix of product grit, technical fluency, and policy chops can help organizations navigate AI risk before it becomes an emergency.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Business Administration, Computer Science Minor, Bachelor of Science - BS, Business Administration, Computer Science Minor at University of California, BerkeleyFellowship, Technology & Policy, Fellowship, Technology & Policy at Aspen Policy AcademyEntrepreneur, Health Tech Startup, Entrepreneur, Health Tech Startup at Rock HealthStartup Development, Startup Development at Y CombinatorCertification, AGI Strategy, Frontier AI Governance, Certification, AGI Strategy, Frontier AI Governance at Blue Dot Impact
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (122)
web-application10
javascript9
wizard9
html9
cms9
ruby9
mvc9
blockchain9
react-native-component9
ghost9
rails9
nodejs9
activerecord8
neat8
ruby-on-rails8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
openpprn/opn
Jul 2014 - Apr 2021
A collaborative open source infrastructure for running web-based patient-powered research networks (PPRNs)
Contributions:218 commits, 2 pushes, 1 comment in 6 years 9 months
patientcollaborativeweb-basedinfrastructure
seanahrens/van
Feb 2016 - Apr 2021
Contributions:107 pushes, 3 branches, 3 comments in 5 years 3 months
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