1Please provide us a brief bio of yourself and your health industry background.
Hey! I'm Srikanth Jonnakuti, and I am a cloud architect and engineer with over 5 years of experience designing secure, scalable, and reliable cloud solutions. I recently contributed to Genomage, a precision genomics start-up, where I architected the cloud infrastructure supporting their Gene Cloud™ platform. My work focuses on bridging cloud innovation with healthcare, especially to advance genomics-driven personalized medicine.
2What motivated you to pursue this particular health initiative, and what impact has it had on individuals or communities?
I was motivated by the profound gap between the promise of genomics and its clinical accessibility. By building a scalable, compliant cloud backbone for Gene Cloud™, we accelerated the ability to match patients with personalized therapies, thereby contributing to improved treatment outcomes and faster clinical decisions.
3Tell us more about your business/company, your job profile, and the specific responsibilities you undertake.
At Genomage, I served as the Principal Cloud Engineer, leading the design and deployment of our cloud infrastructure. My responsibilities included ensuring HIPAA, GDPR, and GxP compliance, optimizing for scalability to process thousands of genomic samples in parallel, and enabling seamless integration with clinical systems like EMRs and LIMS.
4Can you share a specific story or testimonial that exemplifies the positive impact your project has had on an individual or community?
A particularly impactful story was when one oncology center, using our platform, was able to match a rare genetic mutation patient with a clinical trial within days—something that would have traditionally taken weeks. This accelerated access gave the patient a promising new treatment option.
5What inspired you to create this health-related creative project, and what message or impact were you aiming to convey?
The inspiration was the need to shift healthcare from “maybe” to “precision.” We aimed to convey that precision medicine shouldn’t just be aspirational; it should be accessible, scalable, and standard in clinical care.
6What unique artistic or creative elements did you utilize to communicate the health message or story?
We simplified complex genomic data workflows into a “one-click” user experience. This abstraction made highly technical bioinformatics accessible even to non-experts, conveying a message of inclusivity and democratization.
7How does your creative project contribute to raising awareness, promoting behavior change, or improving health outcomes?
Gene Cloud™ reduces the technical barriers for healthcare providers to integrate genomics into treatment plans. By making personalized medicine workflows fast and easy, it raises awareness and enables more timely, accurate interventions.
8What unique and compelling elements did you incorporate into your advertising materials to capture attention and deliver the health message effectively?
We focused on a “trial-to-precision” journey narrative in our materials, visually highlighting the difference between traditional guesswork in healthcare and the certainty genomics can offer—simplified, visual, and powerful messaging.
9Congratulations! As a winner of the TITAN Health Awards, what does it mean to you, your company or team to receive this award distinction?
Winning the TITAN Health Awards is a humbling recognition of the potential we see in democratizing precision medicine. For me and the Genomage team, it validates the deep technical and creative effort we put into solving real-world healthcare challenges.
10Can you explain a bit about the winning work you entered into the TITAN Health Awards, and why you chose to enter this project?
The winning project was the Gene Cloud™ Clinical Insights Platform, an end-to-end genomic analytics solution enabling rapid clinical decision-making. We entered it because it represents a true convergence of technology and compassion in healthcare.
11What was the biggest challenge with this project?
The biggest challenge was ensuring the platform’s scalability and regulatory compliance while maintaining ease of use—a delicate balance between technical depth and user simplicity.
12How has winning an Award developed your practice/career?
This award has further reinforced my passion for health tech innovation and cloud engineering for life sciences. It opened doors for deeper collaborations and leadership opportunities in AI-powered healthcare solutions.
13What are your top three (3) things you think is unique about the health industry?
1. Complex Regulations: Compliance like HIPAA, GxP, and GDPR is non-negotiable.
2. Data-Driven Decisions: Medical data is growing exponentially, but remains underutilized.
3. Human-Centric Tech: Unlike other industries, technology in health must be built around empathy and ethics.
14What makes your country unique in the health industry?
The U.S. health industry is unique for its fast adoption of cutting-edge innovations, robust regulatory frameworks, and its drive toward value-based, personalized healthcare models.
15Where do you see the evolution of the health industry going over the next 5-10 years?
I see massive acceleration toward AI-driven diagnostics, genomics-based personalized medicine, and cloud-first healthcare delivery platforms becoming the norm.
16What resources would you recommend to someone who wants to improve their skills in the health industry?
I recommend Coursera/edX health informatics courses, AWS/Azure certifications for healthcare cloud, and following journals like Nature Medicine and JAMIA to stay updated.
17Who has inspired you in your life and why?
Professionally, I’m inspired by pioneers like Dr. Eric Topol, who advocate for patient-empowered medicine, and personally, by my mentors who taught me the importance of blending empathy with technology.
18What is your key to success? Any parting words of wisdom?
Success comes from continuous learning, compassionate innovation, and perseverance. My advice: Always stay curious, stay humble, and build solutions that put people first.
19Do you have anything else you would like to add to the interview?
Yes, I would love to share a bit more about my ongoing journey at the intersection of AI, cloud computing, and healthcare innovation. Alongside my practical contributions at Genomage, I have actively contributed to academic research focused on leveraging AI for health outcomes.
Some of my notable papers include:
• “AI for Crisis Response”, where I developed real-time predictive models for healthcare logistics during COVID-19 using cloud-native event streams. This work demonstrated how dynamic AI infrastructures can optimize healthcare resource allocation in emergencies.
• “Federated Learning on Confidential Cloud Environments”, where I proposed architectures enabling privacy-preserving AI for sensitive domains like healthcare, ensuring HIPAA and GDPR compliance while facilitating collaborative learning without compromising patient data privacy.
• Other works, such as designing cloud architectures optimized for AI throughput and dynamic AutoML orchestration also contribute frameworks that can directly impact scalable healthcare AI platforms like Gene Cloud™.
Through both my technical projects and research publications, I have been deeply committed to solving problems where technology and humanity converge, making AI not just powerful, but ethical, accessible, and responsive to healthcare’s urgent needs.
Winning the Excellence in Health AI Cloud Award is not just a milestone for me—it is a reminder that we are only beginning to unlock the transformative possibilities at the intersection of healthcare and technology.
