Colin Hendricks
About Colin Hendricks
Colin Hendricks serves as the Chief Technology Officer at Liongard, where he has been instrumental in developing advanced software solutions since 2020. With a background in engineering and journalism, he has held various leadership roles in technology companies, focusing on cloud architecture and data management.
Work at Liongard
Colin Hendricks has served as Chief Technology Officer at Liongard since 2020. In this role, he has led the development of a security configuration monitoring solution that connects to over 100 different APIs, processing more than 1 million requests daily. He designed a platform that scales in real-time within the AWS cloud, capable of gathering terabytes of data. Additionally, he developed a RESTful API to provide data access to thousands of IT professionals and applications.
Previous Experience
Prior to his current position, Colin Hendricks held several significant roles in the technology sector. He worked at ROME Corporation as CTO from 2002 to 2008. He served as VP of Software Engineering at Triple Point Technology from 2008 to 2012. Before that, he was a Senior Technical Manager at Luminant Worldwide from 1997 to 2002. His earlier experience includes positions at Detechtion Technologies as Senior Vice President of Software Engineering from 2016 to 2020, and as a Senior Consultant at BSG from 1994 to 1996.
Education and Expertise
Colin Hendricks holds a Master of Science in Journalism from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Rice University. His expertise includes minimizing cloud spending and designing software architectures for AWS and Microsoft Azure. He specializes in transforming ambiguous requirements into revenue-generating software products, particularly in the fields of big data, time series, analytics, and data science.
Early Career
Colin Hendricks began his career as a Mechanical Engineer at Stewart & Stevenson from 1992 to 1994. He also gained experience as a Reporting Intern at The New York Times in 1993 and as an Intern at TWI in 1991. His early roles provided a foundation in both engineering and journalism, contributing to his diverse skill set in technology and communication.