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 like, Stand-ups, Pair-programming, TDD, CI, etc.

He has experience in web development on technology platforms like Java, Ruby and .Net. He has played several roles in development, testing, business analysis, and project management in both the green/brown fields and support/maintenance project areas.

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, and Agile By Example. He has also facilitated code-retreats and dev-camps in the past.

Not so often, Karthik shares his experiences and perspectives through his blogs, http://agile-highway.posterous.com/ and http://kartzontech.blogspot.com/. He can be caught on twitter @kartzontech and would love answering to your queries, if any.