Long before "tech for good" became a popular phrase, Syam Jonnalagadda was already building at the frontier of it. Over more than 25 years, he's worked inside some of the institutions that defined modern connectivity itself — AT&T, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, and Proxim Wireless — places where the technology that quietly powers everyday life was first imagined and engineered.
As Director of Engineering at Proxim Wireless, he led the kind of Wi-Fi and IoT innovation that now sits invisibly behind millions of connected devices. As Managing Director of Proxim India, he took that work global, expanding its reach across markets and cultures. Along the way, as a Technical Advisor in AI, IoT, and cybersecurity, he's remained hands-on with the technologies shaping what comes next — never just a strategist watching from a distance, but an engineer who still builds.
That instinct — to build things that matter — is exactly what he brings to OTAAT and Wombto18. Syam is the architect behind the platform's technical backbone: designing scalable digital health infrastructure that can track a child's journey from maternal care onward, weaving IoT and automation into immunization tracking and climate monitoring, and enabling the real-time analytics and AI-driven decision support that help the right message reach the right family at the right moment.
As he puts it himself:
"Tech isn't just about speed and scale — it's about service to humanity. OTAAT bridges that gap through purpose-built innovation."
For Syam, every line of code written for Wombto18 carries that same intention: technology measured not by how fast it scales, but by how many lives it genuinely touches.