Feb 2023 – Jun 2025 · 2 yrs 4 mos · India · Remote

• Working in a startup allows me to contribute my knowledge across different roles.
• Product Delivery | Resource Costing | Project Costing | Team Management | Release Trail | Resource Estimation | Process Restructuring | API Security | Release Plan
• As a Program Manager / RTE
• Directed end-to-end product lifecycle, achieving 35% faster time-to-market by streamlining roadmap execution.
• Implemented CI/CD pipelines and DevOps automation, cutting release cycle times from weeks to hours.
• Led PI Planning, ART Sync, and Inspect & Adapt workshops, boosting delivery predictability by 30%.
• Organized UGC Hackathon, expanding user base by 30% within 3 months.
• Applied Metrics API & KPIs, improving system observability and reducing
• production issues by 25%.
• Partnered with cybersecurity teams, enhancing compliance audit success
• rate by 40%.
• As a Release manager
• Responsible for Release Management lifecycle that involves the stages such as scheduling the release, coordinating between teams, and deployment of release as per the schedule.
• Spearheaded release reviews, retrospect, internal demos/ code walkthroughs, trainings for developers on process and handholding the team have been my keen focus in this role.
• Oversee production readiness, sign off processes, documentation, and rollout execution for product launches.
• As a Scrum Master
• Facilitate scrum events like Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Retrospective and Daily Standup meetings for DevOps and Release teams.
• Managed CI CD implementation and DevOps orchestration projects in Agile environment, leading cross-functional teams.
• Worked with Product Owners to improve backlog grooming and ensure alignment with business priorities, product development and DevOps implementation.

Feb 2021 – Feb 2023 · 2 yrs · India

• Planning all the release deliverables and release life cycle for all ongoing programs and achieving 100% delivery of business product commitment by participating with product owners and test leads.
• Communicating the release plans, timelines and requirements to the product, development, QA and deployment teams across the organization.
• Ensuring on-time release delivery for all programs by conducting bug scrum and epic review stand-ups to review issues
• Achieving 99% delivery of scope and quality of release for all programs by collaborating on risk mitigation with the leadership team
• Facilitate all IT releases and release planning meetings. This includes cross functional resource planning, environment requirement gathering and checklist preparation for: maintenance releases, hotfix releases, emergency releases, cycle releases and larger feature releases.
• Conducting weekly release management meetings with the R&D leadership team and QA team to provide weekly updates and risk mitigation decisions.

May 2019 – Feb 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Works with project management to facilitate project team meetings, manages agendas and Assist with developing the Release Management organization
• Managed Infrastructure with Terraform/CloudFormation on AWS.
• Working in Devops Support team the whole platform infrastructure and a process for fastest troubleshooting and narrowing down of faulty areas in it.
• Ensures that technology and architecture vision are rolled out consistently across the team
• Facilitate the communication between development, operations and QA for the B2B Platform and Services Team
• Design, implement and maintain a scalable, flexible platforms and infrastructure
• Working with team to create processes and automation for common tasks, including build servers, code and artifact repositories, release management, and application deployment and maintenance
• Provide expertise on configuration management tools & public/private/hybrid cloud infrastructure
• Provide 24x7 oncall support for the production issues.

Jan 2015 – Feb 2021 · 6 yrs 1 mo

• Automated the build process in order to streamline the multi-platform build process and eliminate build errors; developed automated sanity testing after each build.
• Collaborated with QA and Development organizations to identify needs and establish priorities.
• Clearly documented the build process and the subsequent changes.
• Troubleshooting build breakages in a timely manner.
• Designing and developing new methods for improving the development environment.
• Troubleshooting tools and setting up of build servers
• Generated packages for multiple OS, DB and web servers
• Administered JIRA for task / bug tracking

Apr 2011 – Dec 2014 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Greater Chennai Area

• Worked as a Dev Tester
• POC for all communication related to the games developed by my studio
• Ownership of the games developed by the studio
• Signing off the games to the QA team
• Testing Games as part of the Developer team

Jul 2010 – Apr 2011 · 9 mos · Greater Chennai Area

• Worked on Norton Anti Virus, Norton Internet Security and Norton 360 Products.