Professional Overview

Saiteja Jonnalagadda is a Senior Cloud Engineer at CVS Health based in Prosper, Texas. His work focuses on applied artificial intelligence for large-scale healthcare and financial data systems, including patient identity resolution, record linkage and deduplication, privacy-preserving techniques, and synthetic data generation.

At CVS Health he is lead designer of the real-time demographic events service and record-reconciliation systems on the enterprise patient-identity platform. He invented an explode-and-rematch method for overmatched records and defined an enterprise event taxonomy adopted across teams. Earlier roles at PayPal and on trading-system platforms trained him for automated decisions that must be right at volume.

In parallel with industry work, he publishes peer-reviewed research and practitioner writing on synthetic patient data, privacy-preserving linkage, and safer artificial intelligence on imperfect data. He has delivered a keynote at AIC 2026, spoken at San Francisco Python, and serves on technical program committees for international conferences.

He is an IEEE Senior Member and a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. He holds an M.S. in Applied Computer Science from Northwest Missouri State University and a B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from V. R. Siddhartha Engineering College.