Shekhar Arya

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs 6 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

17 years of diverse software industry experience
Led successful end-to-end Agile transformation
Strong expertise in program and vendor management

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned Program Manager with a strong focus on Agile methodologies in the software industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Program ManagementAgile TransformationProject ManagementAgile Methodologies

Other Skills

Agile LeadershipAgile Project ManagementBusiness operationsChange ManagementIT Project & Program ManagementLeading transformational changeProgram Delivery ManagementProject Management Office (PMO)Project ManagersSenior Program ManagementSoftware Project ManagementStrategic initiativesThird Party Vendor ManagementVendor CoordinationVendor Management

About

My 17 years in the software industry, have been spent between a captive IT unit of an Fortune 50 company, dynamic fast paced US based software product firm & a rocketship Real Money Gaming company. I spent the initial years of my career as a Business Analyst before finding my calling in Project/Program Management and Agile! Had the best opportunity of my career to lead an end to end Agile transformation from scratch & I ended up surprising myself ! Expertise : -Agile Transformation & Leadership -Strong Program Management professional -Third Party Vendor Management -Excellent Verbal and Written Communication Skills -Stakeholder Management

Experience

Stable money

Founder's Office

Nov 2025 – Present · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Connecting strategy to execution: Program management, strategic initiatives, and business operations

Program managementStrategic initiativesBusiness operationsProgram ManagementAgile Transformation

Games24x7

2 roles

Principal Technical Program Manager

Promoted

Mar 2024 – Oct 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Sr Technical Program Manager

Jul 2022 – Mar 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Smarsh

2 roles

Senior Agile Program Manager

Apr 2020 – Jul 2022 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Agile Program Manager

Apr 2018 – Mar 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos

Actiance, inc. (acquired by smarsh)

Program Manager

Sep 2016 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bangalore

Intel technology india pvt ltd

2 roles

Project Manager (Technical)

Promoted

Jul 2013 – Sep 2016 · 3 yrs 2 mos

A PMP Certified Project Manager & Certified Scrum Master responsible for managing the entire SDLC process for software projects in Agile or Waterfall environment.
Experience in implementing & executing Agile Methodologies delivering great results for the customers
Develop project scope, goals, and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
Collaborate with business analysts, developers, program managers in the setting of milestones to ensure that appropriate solutions to client needs are developed and deployed to multiple environments as required
Responsible for creating backlog & user stories and continuously monitoring the overall progress of projects and having a risk assessment and mitigation plan in place for further communication to senior management team.
Experience in Vendor Management
Involved in Project management activities like Resource allocation, budgeting, Scheduling, Tracking complex projects to successful completion
Responsible for training and mentoring of the development team and monitoring their performance throughout the project
Conduct meetings with business, internal and external customers and partners to identify business needs and define requirements and product features
Co-ordinate user acceptance and business verification testing.
Create the Release Plan for production deployment.

Agile MethodologiesVendor ManagementProject Management

System Analyst

May 2008 – Jun 2013 · 5 yrs 1 mo

Analyzing the needs of the business and its customers and coming up with solutions to business problems
Acting as a liaison between development team & the user, converting user requirements into simplified terms for the development team.
Carrying out User Demonstrations & Training for all functionalities (GUI & backend)
Responsible for Functional, Integration & user acceptance Testing and training of the project’s Support Team
Regular user interaction to understand pain points and analysis to remove those within project boundaries