Karthik is a software craftsman and Agile evangelist who values continuous observation, experimentation, practice and (un)learning. His mantra remains - "Love people. Be tech-savvy. Evangelise good practices". To his credit, he has helped top and middle tier management to appreciate and adopt Agile mindset, by way of workshops and games. He has also coached several development teams to embracing Agile practices.

He has experience in web development on technology platforms like Java, Ruby and sparingly Dot Net. He has played several roles in development, testing, business analysis, and project management in both the greenfield/brownfield development and support/maintenance projects.

Karthik has been a speaker and participated in numerous panel discussions at Agile conferences and geek-weekends in India and Europe, including RubyConf, Agile Tour, Agile By Example, Next Generation Testing, and Agile In Business. He has also facilitated code-retreats and dev-camps in the past. His current volunteering activities include being core team member for Agile India 2014 and committee member for Agile Kerala 2013.