Yogi Byreddy is Vice President and Chief Technology and Architect Officer. As he likes to put it, every day, he strives to improve patients’ lives through Information Technology.

Yogi joined CTIS in 1998 as a Software Developer and he was promoted to increasing levels of responsibility in a range of positions, including as Technical Lead, Project Manager, and Deputy Principal Investigator/Program Manager for the NCI-supported Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program contract (CTEP) of more than $100 million, the latter being a role which he still holds. Yogi was the chief architect and remains the key technical lead for the more than 25 solutions comprising the CTEP enterprise system (CTEP-ESYS). In recognition of his contributions in support of cancer clinical trials, he has received the NCI Director’s Merit Award five times, specifically for his “exceptional vision and leadership in project development, commencement of the re-engineering of CTEP’s integral IT infrastructure, and his contributions towards Clinical Trials, and Implementation of Adverse Events Reporting System at NCI.”

Yogi has led a team of IT professionals for 22 years. Prior to joining CTIS, he held positions as an IT professional at AMI Sanag Micromations (India) and GDM (Global Data Management, India). Yogi holds a B.S. degree in computer Science & Engineering from Mysore University (India); and an M.S. degree in Data Analytics from University of Maryland University College. He is certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP) , SAFe® Agilist, SAFe® Product Manager/Product Owner, SAFe® for Government Practitioner, Scrum Master, HL7 V3 RIM R1 Specialist, Oracle, Healthcare Transaction Base Specialist and Oracle Healthcare Master Person Index Specialist. As a true technophile, Yogi spends much of his free time exploring and testing new technologies.