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Benjamin Shanahan

Co-founder & Head of AI & Robotics, Senra Systems

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About

Benjamin Shanahan co-founded Senra Systems in 2023 with Jordan Black, where he leads software and platform engineering as CTO. He graduated from Brown University with a degree in Neuroscience and started his career at BrainGate, the brain-computer interface lab, before working as a software engineer at NeuroPace. He moved to SpaceX as a software engineer, where he contributed to the company's ERP purchasing application, the Starlink manufacturing execution system, and telemetry pipelines — the experience that pushed him and Black to leave and build a software-first wire harness company. He was named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 in 2024.

Previous roles

Co-founder & CTO, Senra Systems
Software Engineer, SpaceX
Software Engineer, NeuroPace
Computer Programmer / Software Engineer, BrainGate

Notable work

Long-term performance of intracortical microelectrode arrays in 14 BrainGate clinical trial participants (BrainGate Consortium contributor, 2025)
Brown honors thesis on detecting and classifying behavioral states from neural data

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