Ryan Panchadsaram

Ryan Panchadsaram
Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States Under Todd Park
Incumbent
Assumed office May 2014
President	Barack Obama
Personal details
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley

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]

Early 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.^[3] In 2012, Ryan won first place in The Guardian & Google’s International Data Visualization Challenge.^[4]

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,^[5] the U.S. Digital Services Playbook,^[6] and the creation of the United States Digital Service.^[7]

Ryan worked on the creation of Next.Data.gov and ultimately the redesign of Data.gov.^[8]

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.^[9][10][11]

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.^{[12] [13]}

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