From Strategy to Impact:
Elevating teams, innovating products, delivering tangible results

A Bit About Me

Innovative, Curious, Strategic

I love bridging bold ideas with practical execution to drive product innovation in data engineering, and analytics. With 12+ years of experience enhancing data interoperability and improving patient outcomes, my leadership delivers transformative results.

What I do

Vision & Strategy

  • Establish a clear definition of “winning,” measuring precisely how success will look and why it matters.
  • Lock the team’s focus on impactful objectives, ensuring every product move serves a strategic end-game.

Market & Industry Insights

  • Track critical shifts in regulation, competition, and macroeconomics that shape customer needs and opportunities.
  • Adapt swiftly, leveraging any emerging trend or constraint to secure a decisive advantage.

Discovery & Validation

  • Probe real customer pains early—building lean experiments that confirm product viability and reduce risk.
  • Prioritize the distinct edges that yield maximum value, ensuring each iteration brings you closer to a validated “win.”

Planning & Roadmapping

  • Synthesize near-term priorities and visionary goals into a roadmap balancing quick gains with long-range strategy.
  • Communicate openly so the entire team understands not just what to build but the deeper rationale behind it.

Build & Launch

  • Mobilize cross-functional teams to deliver iteratively, releasing tangible value that can be measured and refined.
  • Propel the product forward by emphasizing short development cycles and continuous user feedback loops.

Monitor & Iterate

  • Gauge success through key metrics—adoption, revenue, or satisfaction—and pivot immediately if data suggests a better course
  • Embrace ongoing learning, treating each release as a chance to refine and strengthen the product.

Portfolio & Resource Management

  • Allocate budgets and talent where they can best deliver strategic, measurable impact.
  • Balance immediate returns with long-range bets, securing a sustainable growth trajectory across multiple products.

Leadership & Collaboration

  • Empower individuals to innovate and assume true ownership, forging high-trust team dynamics.
  • Orchestrate cross-functional alignment so every stakeholder invests in shared outcomes rather than departmental agendas.

Maturity & Culture

  • Refine processes (OKRs, continuous discovery, etc.) to scale product success while maintaining adaptability.
  • Instill a forward-focused mindset so teams remain resilient and prepared under shifting market demands.

My Technical and Domain Background

  • Have specialized in population health and value-based care, working extensively with CSV and HL7 data from major payers.
  • Have architected a robust data platform in PySpark, Databricks, and Azure, enabling secure, scalable ingestion pipelines.
  • Developed an analytics platform to boost VBC performance, leveraging React, Node, Tableau, SQL, and Azure for rapid insights
  • Bridge business needs and engineering constraints, drawing on hands-on software roots to collaborate seamlessly with technical teams.
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Stuff I've Built (That Actually Works!)

Turning messy data into real-world impact

Hungry Wizard

Ingest, unify, and transform payer data for seamless
population health and thriving value-based care.

Value-Based Analytics

Because 150 Value Based Contracts apparently need 300+ formats

Interoperability - HL7 FHIR

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AI in Healthcare data

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Words From Colleagues and Leaders

I have had the pleasure of working with Ashay over the past eight years and I can confidently say that he is one of the most brilliant and innovative individuals I have had met in my 16-year healthcare career! His deep understanding of Value Based Care and product development is unmatched!
Ashay has an incredible knack for teaching himself anything – There isn’t a problem too big or complex for him to want to tackle! This has been evident in his success in growing and leading teams who have a proven track record for developing numerous highly impactful interoperability and analytics products. His technical expertise, combined with his strategic vision, makes him a skilled technologist who consistently pushes greatness.
Beyond his technical skills, Ashay is an amazing leader who focuses on team development and fosters a collaborative and supportive work environment. His leadership has been instrumental in our team’s success and growth. I’m looking forward to closely following his journey as he continues to break barriers and innovate!

-Semira Singh, Director of Interoperability
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