Ryan Panchadsaram was the Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States.The White House: OSTP Leadership & Staff He assumed this role under the second Chief Technology Officer of the United States, Todd Park. Panchadsaram was formerly a senior advisor to Park, starting in 2013, and is credited as an early member of the Healthcare.gov rescue team.Time Magazine: Code Red Panchadsaram is currently a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers and co-founder of the United States Digital Response in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Education Panchadsaram earned a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of California, Berkeley.
Career Prior to joining the federal government, Panchadsaram was responsible for Customer Development at Ginger.io, a spin-off from MIT Media Lab, a health industry big data 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 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 for innovations in geolocation, user interfaces, and large datasets. Panchadsaram sits on the board of SeventyK, a young adult cancer advocacy group. In 2012, Panchadsaram won first place in The Guardian & Google's International Data Visualization Challenge.Health Data Consortium's Health Datapalooza: Ryan Panchadsaram Speaker Bio
In 2021, Panchadsaram co-authored the book Speed & Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now with Kleiner Perkins chairman John Doerr. The book is on the subject of climate change mitigation strategies.
Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States As U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer, Panchadsaram worked on President Obama's Smarter IT Delivery Initiative, including the Smarter IT Delivery Cross-Agency Priority Goal,Performance.gov: Smarter IT Delivery CAP Goal the U.S. Digital Services Playbook,U.S. Digital Services Playbook (see contribution history) and the creation of the United States Digital Service.New York Times: White House Picks Engineer from Google to Fix Sites
Panchadsaram worked on the creation of Next.Data.gov and ultimately the redesign of Data.gov,White House: First Look at Next.Data.gov 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 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.HealthIT.gov: Can Graphic Designers Shape the Future of Health Care?Blue Button+ The Patient RecordU.S. Department of Veterans Affairs VAntage Point: Blue Button for America
Healthcare.gov Tech Surge Panchadsaram was one of the first members of the "tech surge" team assembled by U.S. Chief Technology Officer Todd Park to assess and ultimately fix Healthcare.gov in October 2013, remaining with the tech surge until completion.Time Magazine: Code RedHarvard Business School Healthcare Alumni Association: How We Fixed Healthcare.gov
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