Shiva Vadla is a seasoned engineering leader with nine years of professional experience and a progressive track record at OpenClinica, where he advanced from Software Architect to Vice President of Engineering. He combines deep Java backend expertise—Spring, Hibernate, Struts—and database design with hands-on architecture and team leadership, having led product teams, national deployments, and security accreditation efforts in healthcare and government settings. Shiva has a history of performance tuning, API design, and introducing CI/code review practices, demonstrating both technical rigor and process-driven delivery. His background includes leading a 10-engineer team at Vecna, building patient self-service systems deployed across VA hospitals, which reflects an ability to deliver mission-critical, regulated software at scale. With an MS in Computer and Information Science and practical experience integrating kiosk hardware and device integrations, he brings a blend of systems-level thinking and pragmatic engineering execution.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad
MS Computer and Information Science, MS Computer and Information Science at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
A Python package to create XForms for ODK Collect.
Contributions:5 releases, 58 reviews, 59 PRs in 1 year 11 months
collectpythonxformspython-packageodk
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Shiva Vadla - Vice President Of Engineering at OpenClinica