Ryan Panchadsaram

Ryan Panchadsaram was the Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States.[1] 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.[2] Ryan is currently a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers[3] and co-founder of the United States Digital Response, in response to the COVID crisis.[4]

Ryan Panchadsaram
Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States
Under Todd Park
Assumed office
May 2014
PresidentBarack Obama
Personal details
Alma materUniversity 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, using big data to transform health. 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.com. While at Microsoft, Ryan was responsible for the user experience and design for Outlook for Mac 2011. During his time there, he filed multiple patents for innovations in geolocation, user interfaces, and large datasets. Ryan sits on the board of SeventyK, a young adult cancer advocacy group.[5] In 2012, Ryan won first place in The Guardian & Google's International Data Visualization Challenge.[6]

Ryan earned a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of California, Berkeley.

Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States

As U.S. Deputy CTO, Ryan was working on the President's Smarter IT Delivery Initiative, including the Smarter IT Delivery Cross-Agency Priority Goal,[7] the U.S. Digital Services Playbook,[8] and the creation of the United States Digital Service.[9]

Ryan worked on the creation of Next.Data.gov and ultimately the redesign of Data.gov.[10]

He 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 visually re-design the patient health record, and was 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.[11][12][13]

Healthcare.gov Tech Surge

Ryan 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.[14] [15]

gollark: I think now you mostly just rent a VPS or something, which is much cheaper.
gollark: It's not really as much an issue of "specialized know-how" as "ridiculously expensive hardware".
gollark: I'm glad I only make hobby projects nobody ever uses now!
gollark: As someone who does not actually work anywhere, no.
gollark: I see.

References
  1. The White House: OSTP Leadership & Staff Archived 2014-08-08 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Time Magazine: Code Red
  3. www.kpcb.com, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers. "Ryan Panchadsaram — Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers". www.kpcb.com. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  4. "We connect government to volunteers". U.S. Digital Response. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
  5. SeventyK: Team
  6. Health Data Consortium's Health Datapalooza: Ryan Panchadsaram Speaker Bio
  7. Performance.gov: Smarter IT Delivery CAP Goal
  8. U.S. Digital Services Playbook (see contribution history)
  9. New York TImes: White House Picks Engineer from Google to Fix Sites
  10. White House: First Look at Next.Data.gov
  11. HealthIT.gov: Can Graphic Designers Shape the Future of Health Care?
  12. Blue Button+ The Patient Record
  13. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs VAntage Point: Blue Button for America
  14. Time Magazine: Code Red
  15. Harvard Business School Healthcare Alumni Association: How We Fixed Healthcare.gov
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