Ryan Panchadsaram was the Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States. He assumed this role under the second Chief Technology Officer of the United States,

Todd Park Todd Park is a Korean American entrepreneur and government executive. He served as Chief Technology Officer of the United States and technology advisor for U.S. President Barack Obama. Early life and education Park was born in 1973 in Salt Lak ...

. Panchadsaram was formerly a senior advisor to Park, starting in 2013, and is credited as an early member of the Healthcare.gov rescue team. Panchadsaram is currently a partner at

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and co-founder of the United States Digital Response in response to the

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Education

Panchadsaram earned a

bachelor's degree A bachelor's degree (from Middle Latin ''baccalaureus'') or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin ''baccalaureatus'') is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six ...

Industrial Engineering Industrial engineering is an engineering profession that is concerned with the optimization of complex process (engineering), processes, systems, or organizations by developing, improving and implementing integrated systems of people, money, kno ...

and Operations Research from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

Career

Prior to joining the

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, Panchadsaram was responsible for Customer Development at Ginger.io, a spin-off from MIT Media Lab, a

health industry The healthcare industry (also called the medical industry or health economy) is an aggregation and integration of sectors within the economic system that provides goods and services to treat patients with curative, preventive, rehabilitative, a ...

big data Though used sometimes loosely partly because of a lack of formal definition, the interpretation that seems to best describe Big data is the one associated with large body of information that we could not comprehend when used only in smaller am ...

company. He was a fellow at Rock Health, where Pipette, the company he founded, was incubated and ultimately acquired by Ginger.io. He previously worked at

Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washing ...

and Salesforce. While at Microsoft, Panchadsaram was responsible for the user experience and design of Outlook for Mac 2011. During his time there, he filed multiple

patents A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention."A p ...

for innovations in geolocation,

user interfaces In the industrial design field of human–computer interaction, a user interface (UI) is the space where interactions between humans and machines occur. The goal of this interaction is to allow effective operation and control of the machine fr ...

, and large datasets. Panchadsaram sits on the board of SeventyK, a young adult cancer advocacy group. In 2012, Panchadsaram won first place in

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's International Data Visualization Challenge. In 2021, Panchadsaram co-authored the book ''Speed & Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now'' with Kleiner Perkins chairman

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. The book is on the subject of

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strategies.

Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States

As U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer, Panchadsaram worked on President

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's Smarter IT Delivery Initiative, including the Smarter IT Delivery Cross-Agency Priority Goal, the U.S. Digital Services Playbook, and the creation of the United States Digital Service. Panchadsaram worked on the creation of Next.Data.gov and ultimately the redesign of

Data.gov Data.gov is a U.S. Government website launched in late May 2009 by the Federal Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the United States, Vivek Kundra. Data.gov aims to improve public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by t ...

, and helped coordinate and curate a nationwide competition co-sponsored by the Office of the National Coordinator and the

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs The United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is a Cabinet-level executive branch department of the federal government charged with providing life-long healthcare services to eligible military veterans at the 170 VA medical centers an ...

to re-design the appearance of the patient health record. Panchadsaram was also part of the team that launched and expanded adoption of Blue Button, the concept of and technology for patients to access their own health records in a structured, computable manner.

Healthcare.gov Tech Surge

Panchadsaram was one of the first members of the "tech surge" team assembled by U.S. Chief Technology Officer

to assess and ultimately fix Healthcare.gov in October 2013, remaining with the tech surge until completion.Harvard Business School Healthcare Alumni Association: How We Fixed Healthcare.gov
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References

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