Technical Project Manager - Agile Leader with 20+ Years

Vijayendra Krishan Govindacharya

Technical Project Manager / Agile Project Manager

Hyderabad, INDIA +91-741******* ************@*****.*** Krishna Vijayendra Govindacharya LinkedIn Executive Summary

Technical Project Manager with 20+ years of experience delivering complex, highly scalable platforms in fast-paced, enterprise environments using Agile, Scrum, and DevOps practices. Proven track record leading cross-functional engineering, testing, development, and production support teams across remote and hybrid models, consistently achieving >95% on-time delivery and improved deployment frequency through CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins. Adept at stakeholder management, risk mitigation, and translating business goals into executable roadmaps for global telecom, finance, and enterprise customers.

Core Skills

• Agile & Frameworks: Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Agile coaching, backlog management

• DevOps & CI/CD: Jenkins, Git, Maven/Gradle, CI/CD pipelines, automated build & deployment orchestration

• Project & Program Management: Road mapping, release management, scope, schedule & cost control, OKRs/KPIs

• Tools: JIRA / Azure DevOps / Rally, Confluence, ServiceNow, MS Project, Wiki documentation

• Technical Environment: Microservices, APIs, cloud (AWS/Azure), test automation integration (Selenium, JUnit, Load runner)

• Leadership: Cross-functional team management, mentoring, distributed teams, vendor management, stakeholder communication

Professional Experience

Since March 2024 working as an IT consultant serving Start-ups, CMMI level 3 companies in outsourcing, IT Support and Agile Methodologies being a mentor, freelancing, operations research and content management.

Senior Technical Project Manager People Tech Group (Partnership with Quest Global), Hyderabad 11/2023 to 03/2024

Project: BrightDrop Re-architecture & Big data Analytics

• Led 12+ member cross-functional teams (developers, QA, DevOps, production support) to deliver Y+ releases per year for mission-critical systems with 99.9% availability.

• Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Git, reducing deployment time by 45% and increasing release frequency from 1 to 4 per month while maintaining quality KPIs.

• Drove Agile transformation for 8 teams by introducing Scrum ceremonies, definition of ready/done, and Agile metrics (velocity, cycle time), improving on-time delivery from 80% to 95%.

• Managed multi-million-dollar project portfolios, balancing scope, schedule, and cost, achieving average cost savings of 12% under budget via better capacity planning and vendor optimization.

• Coordinated remote and hybrid teams across time zones, establishing communication cadences and collaboration norms that improved stakeholder satisfaction scores by 14% from 82% to 96% over 3 quarters. Technical Project Manager Object Technologies Solutions India Pvt. Ltd, Hyderabad 2022 July – October/2023

• Planned and executed end-to-end delivery of large-scale application modernization projects, migrating legacy systems to scalable, cloud-ready architectures.

• Integrated automated testing and quality gates into Jenkins pipelines, reducing production defects 35% and improving mean time to recovery (MTTR) by 60%.

• Collaborated with product owners and business leaders to refine backlogs and prioritize features based on ROI and risk, improving feature adoption rates by 35% post-release in 3 months.

• Acted as escalation point for production incidents, driving root cause analysis and preventive actions, resulting in 40% reduction in high-severity incidents. Field Glass project for T-Mobile (Telecom)

• Project: Enterprise CI/CD Modernization – Led design and rollout of standardized Jenkins pipelines for applications, enabling blue/green deployments and reducing deployment failures by 60%.

• Project: Agile Delivery for Telecom Platform – Managed distributed Scrum teams delivering a high-traffic platform supporting 250+ daily users, improving response times by Y% and customer-reported satisfaction by 99.99%

• Oversaw rollout of microservices and containerization strategy across 8 applications standardizing deployment patterns and reducing time-to-market for new features by 30%.

Previously between 2003 to 2021 worked as a Project Coordinator and Scrum Master for projects involving E-commerce, Banking & Finance, Insurance and Supply Chains as well as Business Analyst with Fortune 500 clients such as NTT Data, BMW, DHL working on documentation, project ownership and module lead.

Education

• MBA, Osmania University, Hyderabad passed in 2018

• Bachelors of Computer Science, Avanthi Degree College, 2001. Certifications

• PMP certified

• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) / PSM, SAFe Agilist

• AWS, Azure, DevOps Engineer

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