Balancing technology and social good is tricky; doing it well requires both practical expertise and a compelling vision. For software engineer Tejas Padliya, alchemizing the two is the driving force in his work.
Padliya’s expertise is in AI and digital health technologies. His vision? For AI to be both a tool and a catalyst for equitable, data-driven healthcare transformation.
In conference presentations and elsewhere, Padliya conveys two powerful messages:
Technology is about changing lives, not just companies.
Anyone curious enough to make the effort is capable of creating meaningful innovations in technology and society.
For his vision and his ability to ground it in real-world applications, Tejas was named one of Computing’s Top 30 Early Career Professionals for 2024. In the following Q&A, he describes:
How his academic and industry experiences taught him that software engineering is about more than writing code; it can solve practical problems that have a genuine human impact.
His process for choosing tools for a project, which focuses on long-term goals, team expertise, and scalability rather than trending technologies.
How his work with professional organizations such as IEEE fuels collaboration with other global experts and provides a platform for amplifying socially impactful technologies.
His work integrating complex, mission-critical COVID-19 solutions into Roche’s Navify Pass System during the pandemic and how it highlighted the importance of engineering for trust, resilience, and impact.
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