Narayana Swamy Avulapati
Technical Project Manager / Scrum Master / C++ developer
• 17 Yrs of experience in IT industry as a Program/Technical Project Manager, Scrum Master, and Senior Developer.
• Certified Project Management Professional (PMI - PMP®) with 4.5+ years of technical project management experience.
• Advanced Certified Scrum Master with 3+ years of Scrum Master experience.
• Gained experience in Agile Project Management includes Iterative, Scrum and Kanban Methodologies.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, prioritize tasks, and meet deadlines in a fast-faced environment.
• Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of development projects, from initiation to closure, ensuring adherence to project scope, timelines, and budget constraints.
• Collaboration with cross-functional teams to define project objectives, requirements, and deliverables, and develop comprehensive project plans.
• Managed projects and worked with different technologies including C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Linux, SQL, PL/SQL, Node.js, Angular JS.
• Have experience working under regulated environments like FDA, FRA, IEC62304. Certifications & Courses
• Project Management Professional (PMP®) from PMI, 09/2024
• Advanced - Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance, 11/2023
• Latest Safe 6.0 In Depth, UDEMY Jan 2025
• Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance, 12/2021
• Generative AI Overview for Project Managers, PMI, 09/2024
• Data Landscape of GenAI for Project Managers, PMI, 10/2024
• Talking to AI: Prompt Engineering for Project Managers, PMI, 10/2024
• Sun Certified Java Developer, Oracle Corporation, 2008
• OCA (Level1, Level2), Oracle Corporation, 2008
Work History
2020-03 -
Current
Technical Project Manager- Implementation &
Delivery
Client: Hitachi Rail STS (Contract – Remote)
• Project Planning and Management - Scope defining, Maintain Unified Product Backlog, Organizing and leading the status meetings and work meetings, preparing and sharing the reports Contact
City/State
Nashville/Tennessee
Phone / E – mail
1-629-***-****/**.*****@*****.***
https://www.linkedin.com/in/naraya
naswamy1/
Education
Bachelor of Technology: Computer
Science and Engineering
Kakatiya University - 2006
Skills
Management Skills:
Agile project management,
Technical Project Management, Risk
Management and Mitigation.
Scope Management, Schedule
Management, Cost & Schedule
Management, Stake Holder
Engagement
Release Management (Near and
Long Term), Full stack team
Management, CI/CD Integration
Management, Cross-functional Team
Coordination.
Technical Skills:
C++ (98,11,14), C, Java (6,8), STL,
SQL, PL/SQL, Data Structures
&Algorithms, OOA/OOD(UML), Design
Patterns
with all the stakeholders. Managing risk and dependencies and performing delivery planning.
• Managed multiple teams (3-4) in multiple areas including UI/UX, server and full stack development knowledge area.
• Technical Support - Involve in all the WPL meetings, Architectural meetings, review the spike and design docs and perform code reviews and assess the team in case any technical support is needed at a high level.
• Product Owners & Scrum Masters Support for the process Management and Improvement and Increased Agile teams’ velocity by 10-15% Year over year and ensure to achieve a 95% on-time sprint completion rate. Reduced sprint cycle time by 10% through process optimization, ensuring 90% of user stories were ready for development at the start of each sprint. Improved project delivery predictability by reducing timeline variances to less than 5% of estimates and meeting 100% of critical deadlines.
• Team Management & Building - Assist the team development, remove roadblocks, Mentoring and developing team members which results in Enhanced cross-functional alignment, reducing project blockers by at least 30% and achieving 90% stakeholder satisfaction with project updates.
• Promoting empowerment of the team, conducting 1:1 on regular basis, giving feedback, appraisals, and encouraging a sustainable pace with high levels of quality for the teams. Implemented retrospective insights, executing 80% of identified improvements in subsequent sprints to drive continuous process improvement.
• Onboarding and offboarding people, Train and help with knowledge transfer to the new joiners as part of their onboarding process.
• Microsoft Azure Dev Ops is the platform used for all scrum ceremonies and report generation. MS project and Microsoft office 365 includes SharePoint and Teams.
2016-09 -
2020-03
Scrum Master & Technology Specialist
Capgemini USA Inc, Waukesha, WI
Client: GE Health Care
• As Scrum Master (30% workload) - Conduct all the Scrum Ceremonies like Daily Scrum meetings, Refinements, Retrospective, Sprint Review and Mid reviews.
• Manage the sprint board and backlogs and coordinate with Product owners and architects and control over current and future tasks.
• Follow the scrum guidelines and maintain the scrum artifacts such as burndown charts and task boards, to track progress and make the work visible to the team and stakeholders.
• Responsible for maintaining sprint and product backlog. Analyzed and reviewed the code for any performance Improvements in the Implemented Algorithms and Business Scripting (Shell, PERL), CI/CD,
Jenkins, Linux Knowledge (Unix,
RHEL, Helios, SLES, Unix Internals,
IPC),
MS 0ffice 365, MS Project, JIRA,
Microsoft Office & ADO, Rally,
ClearCase, ClearQuest, GIT, gdb,
gcc,
IBM RTC, IBM Doors, Coverity, Code
Collaborator
Languages
English
Telugu
Applications.
• As Senior Software Engineer: Integrated and developed a new Host Sub System for PET / MRI Scanner and to Implement Algorithms to perform MR and PET Scans together Simultaneously using C++, C and Java.
• Designed and Developed the Business Algorithms of Pre-Scanning and Post Scanning Algorithms in Helios 6.8.2 (A Linux OS Flavor) to perform Different types of scans as per the prescription and protocols designed by Clinical Specialists.
• Worked on Implementation of PET MR Scanning Workflow to prescribe the scanning Operations And send the Instructions to Scanner
• Performed the Design, Development and Testing of new features for the Host, MR And PET Subsystems as part of the Agile Scrum team.
2014-10 -
2016-09
Senior Application Developer
IBM India Pvt Ltd, Dallas, TX
Client: HSBC
• Developed Business Applications and Business APIs and Algorithms using C++, Data Structures and Multi-threading, Data Structures for new funding databases which will Calculate funding daily and Structured products financial instruments Workflow for nested and interdependent payoffs or features.
• Designed and developed entire new framework for Back Office of Murex3.1 And APIs written for Day End financial report generation
• And APIs are written in C++, C and some are In Java also.
• Migrated Murex from 2.11 version to mx.3 for FX options and as well as Wrote new APIs Using C++ 11 programming language.
• Created Interfaces using C++ language with Factory and Singleton Design Patterns as Well as Developed whole Back-office Application using Observer Design Pattern.
• Responsible for hands-on project planning, reporting, authoring business requirements, Operational risk, business analysis, functional specifications, development and Implementation of new Cost of Carry compliance file extracts, compliance Import/export process, compliance batch process and compliance End of Day/End of Month security prices.
2013-10 -
2014-09
Senior Software Engineer
Ericsson India Pvt Ltd, Chennai, India
• Designed and Developed Rating subsystem for future Postpaid Billing System Called CBio Using C++, C, Linux, UML, Oracle.
• Fixed Issues and Designed and developed new features for CBio and BSCS Products using C++ and C programming languages.
• Worked under Scrum and Kanban process for development and Maintenance of system.
• Worked on CR s and Enhancements and any design changes and on customization for clients and guided them to work on their Environment.
2012-11 -
2013-10
Senior Software Engineer
Maintec Technologies, Chennai, India
Client: Bank Of New York & Mellon
• I interacted with BA and analyzed the BRS document and understood the Dodd frank act.
• Designed the Application using UML modeling diagrams at component level as well as Class level Which helped to create the framework at code level.
• Write .mx files which are the key to operating Murex through its back office.
• Write the C++ Interfaces and APIs for real time data feed and load from the real time Data suppliers like Bloomberg and FUME and send the same to Murex Application.
• Analyze the entire Murex 2.x data and write the same business logic for mx.3 Application.
• Replaced the Whole Rouge Wave Libraries with Boost and C++ 11 libraries with proven Results of Better Performance and zero errors.
• Designed and wrote a new test framework using C++ and shell scripting which can Perform the complete Auto Testing process of the Application on Request basis to Certain module.
• Write the business for P&L, financial and broker Reconciliation reports and Date roll Change logic.
2011-01 -
2012-07
Senior Software Engineer
E-Data Experts Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad, India
Client: Experian PLC
• Implemented and enhanced server-side business logic to calculate user credit Score Based on data received from various institutions using programming Language C and C++.
• Worked on C, C++ using various design patterns and memory leak issues and Performance Management.
• Converted all business algorithms to calculate Credit Score into technology and APIs.
• Worked on Shell scripting and Unix commands for various batch process jobs and worked on Jenkins for build and Integration purpose.
• I worked on C++ classes and STLs for data processing and data conversion as per business Algorithms.
2007-01 -
2011-01
Assistant Systems Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services, Hyderabad, India
Client: USAA
• Worked on C++ on OMVS Platform for development of Under- Writing Application for The Property Insurance.
• Worked on the Sybase database using SQL and PL/SQLs along with all the other RDBMS Concepts like Error Handling, Joins, Triggers, Stored Procedures etc.
• Worked on JCL and OS390 concepts to deploy the application in Mainframe server.
• Specified, prototyped, developed and tested an object-oriented, multi-platform C++ UW Application within the timelines under Agile Iterative Process.
• Significantly contributed to the calculations engine and based on the customer data and Customer History and USAA guidelines.
• Involved in all the testing phases which include Regression, UAT, Prep and supported The Clients and BA's and testing team for providing the Inputs and debugging and fixing The Issues.