Federal 100: Kartik K. Mecheri
Name: Kartik K. Mecheri
Title: Co-Founder and Chief Architect
Company: Karsun Solutions
Making GSA more agile. Mecheri has spurred agile development at the General Services Administration with an eye to boosting efficiency. He has been instrumental in helping GSA move away from traditional waterfall development to agile and other methods that stress communication, collaboration and use of the cloud. His influence has extended to GSA's agile delivery team and innovation lab 18F. Essentially, Mecheri and his team created a robust repository of proven, free code for federal agencies to reuse.