Archana Vemulapalli is the Chief Technology Officer for The Mayor Office for the District of Columbia managing more than 10,000 employees overseeing 21 Departments, 33 independent agencies, roughly 69 legislatively mandated offices and 5 regional bodies. 

These include all city services, public property, police and fire protection, District of Columbia Public Schools, The University of the District of Columbia (UDC) and UDC-Community College. The mayor's office oversees an annual city budget of roughly $8.8 billion.

Prior to DC CTO, she has served as CTO for Pristine Environments of 1,000 employees and the CEO of Intelleva.

She is the recipient of Washington Business Journal’s Women Who Mean Business 2015 award. Ms. Vemulapalli was selected to participate in Leadership Greater Washington Class of 2015 and Women in Technology’s Leadership Foundry Class of 2014. Ms. Vemulapalli serves on the Trustees Council of Penn Women at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a NACD Board Governance Fellow.  

She has an MBA from Georgetown University, a masters from UPenn, and engineering degree from the University of Madras.