Jul 2021 – Jun 2025 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Led $10M+ data-driven initiatives, managing cross-functional teams (60+ members) across data engineering, AI/ML, cloud, and product functions.
• Spearheaded GenAI and AI/ML-powered automation, strategies, optimizing processes and enhancing decision-making for business-critical solutions.
• Established FinOps-driven cost governance, reducing cloud infrastructure spend through optimized workloads and automated cost control mechanisms.
• Implemented best-in-class Agile program management practices to streamline execution, reduce project cycle times, and enhance efficiency year-over-year.
• Managed enterprise-wide data engineering roadmaps, mitigating risks, and ensuring timely delivery of AI-driven solutions aligned with strategic objectives.
• Drove business growth through data monetization, leveraging AI-driven insights for increased revenue and user engagement.
• Ensured transparent program health reporting, tracking capacity planning, sprint execution, and milestone delivery.
• Coordinated with globally distributed teams and third-party vendors (software, hardware, content) to align with Walmart’s Global Data & AI strategy.
• Tools & Technologies: JIRA, Confluence, Tableau, UML,GCP/Azure, FinOps, AI/ML frameworks.

Feb 2020 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Leading and coaching the organization in its Agile adoption and promoting the delivery of business value
• Scrum Master for 3 or 4 distributed development teams in APAC, US, and EMEA.
• Teach and Coach Agile practices and values within the organization
• Coach employees and stakeholders understand and enact Scrum and empirical product development
• Influencing change that increases team performance at a sustainable pace
• Working with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of agile practices in the organization
• Deep knowledge of Agile (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, Lean) teachings and capable of helping teams to address dysfunctions that may result from teams misinterpreting, ignoring or rejecting Agile and Lean values and principles
• Significant experience working with organizational leadership and teams to change and adjust organizational design to promote self-organizing teams within an enterprise environment
• Exhibits a deep-passion for continuous learning and seeks to provide knowledge gained throughout the entire organization, beyond the team and line of business, and can facilitate classes, workshops, and Agile sharing events (e.g. Agile Hangouts, Community of Practice)
• Utilizes broader experiences and adoption patterns, the Lean/Agile Coach helps the organization and (often multiple) Agile Teams adapt and progress in a feasible way.
• Ensuring the Product Owner knows how to arrange the Product Backlog to maximize value and teach techniques for effective Product Backlog management Implementing Agile and Scrum practices for onshore and offshore teams
• Worked with the stakeholder for removing dependencies
• Worked on Less Framework
• Have worked on Transformation from one framework to another.

Feb 2019 – Feb 2020 · 1 yr · Bengaluru Area, India

• Implementing Agile and Scrum practices for onshore and offshore teams
• Making business plans for the application development practice for revenue growth
• Working on process improvements and implementation of new methodologies for software development and project management
• Managing vendor relationships from commercial negotiations to implementations.
• Responsible for resource planning
• Understanding Key Business objectives and strategy of the product and ability to communicate to the team
• Select which productivity and achievement metrics will be tracked for the scrum teams
• Guide the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers
• Guide the team on how to realize the maximum benefits of self-organization.
• Support and educate the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog to facilitate sprint planning preparedness (definition, refinement, scoping) to ensure that each team has an actionable, prioritized backlog.
• Facilitate scrum planning ceremonies.
• Provide daily leadership and coaching team members, in the successful adoption and application of agile practices.
• Encourage scrum team quality practices including Agile architecture, continuous integration, acceptance test-driven development (ATDD), and collective ownership.
• Assess the Scrum Maturity of the team and coach the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization
• Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
• Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
• Provide support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and leading by example
• Facilitate team collaboration with Technical Lead and System Architect to ensure high-quality technical delivery.
• Provide project-level support where necessary.

Jul 2018 – Jan 2019 · 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Gather requirements from Product Owner, Quality managers at various plants.
• Created Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog and managed User stories.
• Led daily stand-up meetings. Coordinated and facilitated extensive user interviews and workshops to gather and analyze requirements
• Developed crucial functional requirement specifications, creating detailed use cases and process flow diagrams to support functional specifications
• Conducted meticulous GAP analysis while successfully reengineering key business processes to increase operational efficiency and alignment of business unit objectives
• Provided comprehensive support to all end users and stakeholders through training and documentation Prioritized Production issues and assigned them to the Business Analysts. The effort enhanced the application and decreased time for the business depending on the issue.
• Conducted UAT with the cross-functional business teams to ensure the system was aligned with the vision of the business teams.

May 2018 – Jul 2018 · 2 mos

Dec 2015 – Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore

• Generated test plans work instructions and procedures from client requirements and industry standards.
• Interfaced with stake holders and facilitated communication between client and the IT
• department.
• Involved in creating targeted questionnaires and interviews for SME’s, clients and
• business users to gather requirements.
• Involved in Feasibility and Risk Analysis to identify the business critical and high-risk
• areas of the application.
• Worked as a liaison between business users and developers to submit requirements and
• changes, clarify questions and issues.
• Extensively experienced for organizing and documenting requirements, preparing use
• cases, writing business documents and reports in Pre- Testing phase.
• Operating Systems MS Windows and Mobile devices
• SQL, MongoDB
• SDLC Methodologies Rational Unified Process, Waterfall Methodology, Agile
• Tracking Management Tools Jira , QC and Microsoft Test Manager
• Developed data flow diagrams, illustrating the flow of data from the Legacy systems
• into the Application database Tables, along with checkpoints for testing / verification.
• Prepared use case documents and utilized JIRA to create UML diagrams including
• use case, activity and class diagrams to extract business process flows and workflows,
• thereby assisting development and quality assurance teams in understanding the
• requirements.
• Worked on a team environment to finalize use cases to develop functional and detail
• design specifications of the application.
• Collaborated with the QA team in reviewing and validating test plans and test cases,
• ensuring that the final application catered to the user requirements.
• Developed a user acceptance test plan and test case scenarios to guide a select group
• of key end-users in testing the user interface and functionality of the application.
• Performed requirement walkthroughs with the Dev. and QA teams with the aim to
• develop testing strategies and test plans such that test cases reflect user needs.

Aug 2013 – Dec 2015 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore

• Client Name: Charles Schwab (OFFSHORE)/ HP (OFFSHORE) (January 2015-October 2016)
• Interfaced with stakeholders and facilitated communication between the client and the IT
• department.
• Involved in creating targeted questionnaires and interviews for SME’s, clients and
• business users to gather requirements.
• SDLC Methodologies Rational Unified Process, Waterfall Methodology, Agile.
• Developed data flow diagrams, illustrating the flow of data from the Legacy systems
• into the Application database Tables, along with checkpoints for testing/verification.
• Prepared use case documents and utilized JIRA to create UML diagrams including
• use case, activity and class diagrams to extract business process flows and workflows,
• thereby assisting development and quality assurance teams in understanding the
• requirements.
• Worked on a team environment to finalize use cases to develop functional and detail
• design specifications of the application.
• Develop business architecture using requirements such as scope, processes, alternatives, and risks.
• Analyze the client’s business requirements and processes through document analysis, interviews, workshops, and a workflow analysis.
• Work closely with project owners in backlog management and continuous delivery of features.
• Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders.
• The direct and lead development team from project initiation through the delivery of the final product.
• Planned and monitored project budget/spending.
• Guided projects to completion on time, within scope, and on budget.
• Managed project scope to ensure delivery was compliant to scope commitment.
• Tracked and managed product backlog, burndown metrics, velocity, and task breakdown.
• Addressed problems through risk management and contingency planning.