Gautami Morkhandikar

Product Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India6 yrs 10 mos experience

Key Highlights

Certified SAFe Practitioner with 6+ years of experience
Expert in coaching high-performing Agile teams
Strong background in release and delivery management

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Scrum Master with expertise in Agile methodologies within the healthcare and IT services industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Agile & Safe PracticesCoaching High-performing Teams

Other Skills

ScrumAgile MethodologiesMicrosoft OfficeMicrosoft ExcelAgile CoachingSafeSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Scaled Agile FrameworkRelease EngineeringKanbanServiceNowGoogle WorkspaceSprint BacklogSprint PlanningSprints

About

Certified SAFe Practitioner (6.0) and Scrum Master with 6+ years of hands-on experience driving Agile delivery, collaboration, and continuous improvement across dynamic, cross-functional teams. I began my career as a Release Engineer, where I learned the importance of structure, ownership, and precision. Over time, I transitioned into a Scrum Master, combining technical understanding with people leadership to help teams deliver value consistently and sustainably. I believe agility isn’t about rituals it’s about mindset. My leadership style blends empathy, accountability, and clear communication, creating space for teams to speak up, take ownership, and grow together. 💡 Core Strengths: Agile & SAFe Practices (PI Planning, Flow Improvement, Iteration Execution) Release & Delivery Management Coaching High-Performing Teams Jira | Confluence | ServiceNow | Servant Leadership I’m passionate about building teams that deliver with purpose, adapt with agility, and celebrate every win, big or small. 🚀

Experience

6 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Cigna healthcare

Scrum Master

Sep 2025 – Present · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Facilitated Agile ceremonies (Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Reviews, Retrospectives, PI Planning) to ensure alignment and focus.
Coached and mentored teams on Agile principles, Scrum framework, and SAFe practices to drive continuous improvement.
Acted as a servant leader, fostering collaboration, transparency, and accountability across cross-functional teams.
Removed impediments and blockers to enable smooth delivery and maximize team productivity.
Partnered with Product Owners to refine and prioritize backlog items, ensuring business value delivery.
Drove a culture of inspect & adapt using metrics (velocity, lead time, burndown, flow) to improve predictability.
Coordinated with Release Train Engineers (RTEs), Agile Coaches, and stakeholders for alignment at the program level.
Advocated for high-performing, self-organizing teams by nurturing trust, psychological safety, and ownership.
Supported continuous delivery and DevOps practices, bridging collaboration between development and operations.
Ensured compliance with organizational goals, quality standards, and regulatory needs (where applicable, e.g., healthcare/finance).

ScrumAgile MethodologiesAgile & SAFe PracticesCoaching High-Performing Teams

Tata consultancy services

Scrum Master

Feb 2022 – Sep 2025 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Coaching and mentoring the Scrum Team(s), removing barriers to successful implementation and enabling a continued focus on the task at hand.
Facilitating scrum and agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
Identifying and reporting progress via appropriate metrics.
Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure successful delivery of software development projects.
Continuously improving the Agile process by staying up-to-date with the latest Agile methodologies and best practices.
Strong knowledge of Agile methodologies and experience in Agile Project
Management.
Strong problem-solving and conflict resolution skills to remove barriers to successful implementation.
Supported the team to improve their technical work by reviewing results and establish lessons learned sessions in addition to tracking improvement and guiding development teams to higher scrum maturity.

ScrumAgile MethodologiesAgile & SAFe PracticesCoaching High-Performing Teams

Cognizant

Senior Process Associate

Aug 2019 – Feb 2022 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Coordinated with the release schedule and resources required depending upon the third-party applications, defect backlogs, planned releases, and infrastructure updates..
Scheduling of deployments and de-confliction of in-flight change.
Management of software Releases for Aviva UK including scoping, implementation and associated risks to ensure a controlled delivery of new and changed IT Services.
Ensuring adherence to Release governance processes. Delivery of Agile and Waterfall Projects, Reporting and management of Release status and risks, including communication to senior stakeholders.
Responsible for ensuring planned Releases are safely deployed into the Production Environment.
Ensures that operational risk associated with the deployment of Releases are owned and effectively mitigated
ITIL Release control & Validation certified
Supported scrum and platform teams through the release registration and governance processes.
Ensured the right environments are available for release testing & understanding environment availability/limitations.
Understood the release landscape including release restrictions, deployment opportunities and project requirements.
Stakeholders engagement at each stage we need to collaborate and engage with the stakeholders particularly the user acceptance testing and deployment.