Shashikanth Gadgay is an engineering leader with over a decade of experience building cloud-native, AI-driven platforms and scalable web systems, now serving as an Engineering Manager at ServiceNow. He combines hands-on polyglot development (Java, Node.js, React) with enterprise architecture and solutions consulting, having led major platform and onboarding initiatives that unlocked significant revenue and scale. Notably, he architected an agentic AI chatbot and observability-driven optimizations that halved AI infrastructure costs while improving performance. A strong mentor and CoP champion, he has grown teams from small squads to 100+ engineers and runs hands-on workshops to elevate technical practices across global, cross-functional teams. His open-source contributions to the Bahmni EMR highlight practical experience in both frontend and backend healthcare systems for low-resource environments.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Information Technology at Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology
Bahmni EMR Frontend code for Clinicians and staff members, written in Angular.JS and React
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:75 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Shashikanth primarily contributed to the frontend of the Bahmni EMR frontend code, demonstrating expertise in AngularJS, React, and related frontend technologies. Their work involved implementing features, such as enhancements to drug order entry with duration and quantity changes. They also worked on the patient dashboard and updated the display control for observations, integrating program enrollment date ranges. Additionally, the user made modifications to the user interface including adding csv option for reports, and corrected free text drug order handling.
Core OpenMRS modules for Bahmni (including ERP & ELIS Atom Feed Clients)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:18 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Shashikanth primarily focused on modifying Java code, specifically within test files and core modules related to drug order mapping and disease summary aggregation. Their work involved changes to several Java files within the `bahmni-core` and `reference-data` modules. These changes suggest the user was involved in enhancing the functionality and testing of the Bahmni EMR system.
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Shashikanth Gadgay - Engineering Manager at ServiceNow