Our Team
Kalpana Goli
Vice-President
Kalpana leads account management and bid management activities for AgileTek. Kalpana has over 15 years of IT experience in Federal government agencies such as DHS, Consulting companies such as IBM, Telecom companies like Verizon. Throughout her career, Kalpana has provided leadership to small to large programs. Kalpana has strong expertise in on-shore and off-shore Project management and Test automation competencies.
Kalpana has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer science from Osmania University, India. She is Certified Scrum Master. Kalpana possesses excellent delivery track, and experience in testing Web-based, Service Oriented architecture and Media editing applications.
Shashi Goli
President
Shashi leads business development activities, and project delivery teams. Shashi has more than 20 years of experience in the software industry with experience in Big 5 consulting companies such as KPMG and BearingPoint, public sector at DHS, and financial industries such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Shashi helps his client provide thought leadership, problem solving and innovative futuristic technology solutions.
In 2017, Director of National intelligence (DNI) awarded National Intelligence Meritorious Unit Citation to Shashi for modernizing USCIS’s refugee security check management system. DHS, Department of State and Intelligence community joined together to develop a government wide IT system that ensures decisions are fully vetted. Shashi has a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Louisiana State University and Bachelor’s degree in Electrical engineering from Nagarjuna university. He is certified SAFe® Agilist, Project Management Professional (PMP) and Certified Scrum Master (CSM).
Advisory board
James McCool serves as an advisor to AgileTek. As the CEO of McCool Team LLC, he advises on intelligence and analytic operations, and in particular the technologies that advance intelligence tradecraft, operations. He retired as a senior executive at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) in 2023. Mr. McCool’s final NGA assignment was starting the Data and Digital Innovation Directorate; a new organization responsible for leading, creating, and delivering GEOINT artificial intelligence. Previous to this, he served as NGA’s senior officer in Israel. Mr. McCool had many other leadership roles covering a wide range of topics at NGA. He provided direction on improving analytic skills and methods as well as the development of automation technology. During Mr. McCool’s time at CIA, he was a briefer for the Presidents Daily Brief (PDB) and led analytical teams. He has a B.S. degree from the University of Maryland focused on cartography and remote sensing. He also served stateside and overseas in the US Air Force.
David Lafon serves as an advisor to AgileTek leadership. He is a proven leader, innovator and strategist, with experience founding multiple successful consulting companies and close to two decades in managing in industry, academia, small business and enterprise. As a strategist, has provided digital transformation and management consulting strategies for Fortune 100 companies, helping them chart a course through one of the fastest changing and most disruptive technological landscapes at play in the contemporary business environment. Davin has a passion for technology, with over a decade of experience as a researcher and programmer at Carnegie Mellon, where he has tackled hard problems in artificial intelligence, data mining and cognitive tutoring.