From a farming village in Andhra Pradesh to the U.S. Army officer corps and the global space industry — the milestones that shaped Srikanth Kodeboyina's life and work.
- 2011
Earned an M.S. in Computer and Electrical Engineering at the University of Dayton, active in IEEE and the CEO Club, while working odd jobs and teaching yoga on campus.
- 2011–2016
Led multimillion-dollar program and analytics work for Fortune 100 companies including American Express and Abbott Laboratories, across 14 countries. Earned PMP and Lean Six Sigma credentials.
- 2013
Founded the Mana Mantada Foundation, an education fund for students from his home village.
- 2016
Founded Blue Eye Soft Corp, enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserve, and became a U.S. citizen — sworn in at a ceremony covered by the Lowell Sun.
- 2017
South Carolina's Governor announced Blue Eye Soft's expansion in Greer. Named an NMSDC Emerging Young Entrepreneur and chosen as a U.S. delegate to the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Hyderabad. Began flight training at Greenville Downtown Airport.
- 2018
SC SBDC New Business of the Year; appointed by Governor McMaster to a state education and economic-development board; graduate of Leadership South Carolina.
- 2019
Named South Carolina Minority Small Business Person of the Year by the U.S. SBA; spoke on the millennial tech entrepreneurs panel at the NMSDC Conference; became an SC Ports Ambassador.
- 2020
Licensed the University of Dayton Research Institute's chest-X-ray AI, which became BlueDocAI; won Air Force SBIR funding; joined NYU Tandon's Veterans Future Lab; featured in Forbes, WYFF 4, WHIO TV and the Dayton Daily News.
- 2021
Graduated from the Army's Basic Officer Leader Course as a direct-commissioned officer; won the InnoVision COVID-19 Response award; selected for the AFRL/Space Force Soft Landing accelerator; named one of three first-cohort NM LEEP fellows at Los Alamos.
- 2022
U.S. Patent 11,087,883 for BlueDocAI's transfer-learning AI announced; Blue Space competed in the UNM Anderson–SBA Global Scaling Challenge.
- 2023
Named to SSPI's "20 Under 35"; Blue Eye Soft received the U.S. Commerce Export Achievement Certificate and the Greenville Chamber's Minority-Owned Small Business of the Year; opened at India's GIFT City; joined the USIBC roundtable and INDUS-X; panelist at the Global Upstate Conference.
- 2024
International Institute for Space Studies & Research (IISSR) signed a strategic MoU with T-Hub at India's National Defence & Aerospace Innovation Summit; joined the Embassy of India business roundtable in Washington, D.C.
- 2025
Opened a Space Weather Prediction Centre in Mumbai with U.S. Commercial Service support; signed the Andhra Pradesh MoU for Gagan Vihar at the CII Partnership Summit.
- 2026
Served in Exercise Ulchi Freedom Shield in Korea, earning Eighth Army and ROK Army commendations; signed the IN-SPACe MoU for Gagan Vihar – Space City of India; MoU exchanges at Bengaluru Space Expo and with Tamil Nadu; second Space Weather Prediction Centre with Andhra University; 3rd place in UCF's Space Ideation Challenge; papers accepted at IAC 2026 and GTRI Space Week; Climatebase Fellow; speaker at UCF India Center & ORF's India–U.S. space conference.