# Lucas Hendren > Senior Software Engineer at AWS/Annapurna Labs, AI, Ex-Alphabet, Ex-Meta/FB, Founder Location: United States, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/lucashendren Experienced Chief Technology Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the tech, finance, and health care industry. Strong business development professional skilled in distributed technologies, tech, machine learning and leadership. Here is a Newsweek and NSF article on what I have been working on! www.simplyvitalhealth.com - We extract, refine, and distribute healthcare data so Care Givers and Care Seekers can make the best healthcare decision, easier. Access one platform for secure, seamless, on-demand access to healthcare data. The core component of our tech stack is our very own HIPAA Compatible blockchain protocol, Nexus, which enables data governance instead of data ownership. We are ushering in the future where healthcare data is transacted, not owned. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Jan 2025 – Present | United States Working on AI/ML Performance with Annapurna Labs ### Limited Partner @ Anorak Ventures Jan 2022 – Present Providing tech advising to fund,es venture groups and angel syndicates Source deal flow in tech space Vetted emerging tech startups Interview Founders and team for technical skills Provide leadership and mentorship to small and medium size startups ### Senior Software Engineer @ SpaceX Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Sunnyvale, California, United States Working on Starlink ### Engineering Manager @ Share Creators Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area Engineering Manager and Tech Lead Brought on in interim role to help scale company after series A, stepped back once successful Grew Engineering team from 2 to +20 Rebuilt backend system in microservice architecture, kafka, docker and Kubernetes PM'ed and led agile/project management efforts Led System Design for backend, ai/ml and Infra Dealt with SEV1 level issues Developed Generative AI Art system Engineered new communication systems PM front end development Helped setup Overseas office in China Provided blockchain based audit System ### Senior Software Engineer @ Facebook Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Menlo Park, California, United States Senior Software Engineer building AI/ML Infrastructure for AR/VR Lead and built data processing pipeline for AI/ML in AR/VR. System was successfully launched on 4 platforms with a 6x increase in efficiences. This system included encryption/decryption, uploading, databases, ORMs, data processing, scheduling, offline support, metrics, and data validation. Was written in C++. Additional wrappers in Reach and Swift. Additionally there were Python modules. Also contributed to the new Open Source VRS data format with new tools. Led better engineering efforts to lower bug count and improve C++ coding cross company ### Software Engineer @ Alphabet Inc. Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | South San Francisco, California, United States Software Engineer within Verily on Project Baseline helping build clinical trial tools to improve healthcare and help with Covid-19 trials. Specifically helped built out and scale java backend. Created new APIs and Microservice architecture to allow backend to scale. Created large scale database migration tools for sql. Updated front end systems for better UI and work flows. Also worked within Google Brain in AI/ML. Specifically was utilizing AI/ML in hardware synthesis with the `Learn to Design Accelerators` ### Independent Security Reseacher @ HackerOne Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 Independent Security Researcher. Works Independently but occasionally used HackerOne which I have attached as an example HackerOne Name:- grimnail Link to Profile:- ( https://hackerone.com/grimnail ) - Finding new Vulnerabilities & Security Flaws on "WEB & API" applications. - Manual penetration testing. - Vulnerability Assessment. - Smart Contract and Decentralized systems testing ### CTO/Co-Founder @ Tamarin Health Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Mateo Co-Founder of SimplyVital Health and CTO. SimplyVital Health is building the blockchain infrastructure that is safely adoptable by healthcare through proprietary and open source software. We focus on leveraging blockchain as a tool to increase data access and decrease the cost of healthcare, globally. The open source Health Nexus protocol is one of the world’s first HIPAA-compatible blockchain protocols with its own governance and consortium model. You can contribute to the open source code or leverage the tools for your own blockchain dApps → github.com/Health-Nexus Our sana program provides a unique and comprehensive suite to ensure the most appropriate patient care while decreasing costs. We use blockchain as an audit trail for improved insurance reimbursement, but are also building advanced solutions that leverage blockchain to improve claims processing; cost, price, and data transparency; and payment distribution. Correct care with optimal outcomes and reduced costs will result in a better global healthcare system. ### Tech Lead Blockchain-Software Engineer @ Capital One Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area Core Developer for Masterpass angular 2 front end Worked on a rapid prototyping team as a full stack developer Lead developer for blockchain applications Built in-house web application with emailing service utilizing angular2 and AWS Partnered With Machine Learning team to develop products with use cases centered around fraud Developed outlier detection algorithms with and not limited to auto encoders and genetic algorithm Wrote neural net algorithm to check for possible uses and as a framework Experimented with several ML frameworks including H2O Designed Java backend for intuit integration ## Education ### Artificial Intelligence Graduate Certificate Stanford University Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 ### BS in Electrical Engineering and Enginering Physics University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/lucas-hendren-12793667 - Website: https://www.lucashendren.com/ - Website: https://www.simplyvitalhealth.com/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/lucashendren JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/lucashendren/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-23