Senior Technical Program Manager (Agile DevSecOps)

SUMMARY

Rama Krishna Chirumamilla

San Ramon, CA 94582 510-***-**** ****.*.************@*****.*** LinkedIn SENIOR TECHNICAL PROGRAM MANAGER / AGILE DELIVERY LEAD Strategic Technical Program Manager with 15+ years of experience directing large-scale cloud infrastructure, enterprise software, and FinTech delivery programs at Oracle and Charles Schwab. Expert at navigating highly regulated environments, managing cross- functional dependencies for 60+ stakeholder programs, and driving modern DevSecOps migrations (OCI, Kubernetes, CI/CD). Proven track record of bridging engineering technical depth with executive business strategy to optimize release velocities and ensure 99.99% system availability.

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Program Leadership: Multi-Team PI Planning, Dependency Mapping, Risk Mitigation, Roadmap Synchronization, Capacity Planning

• Agile Frameworks: SAFe (Scaled Agile), Scrum, Kanban, Lean-Agile Delivery, Matrix Team Leadership

• Governance & Compliance: Financial Regulatory Standards, CAB Liaison, Release Governance, Audit Readiness, Change Management

• Cloud & DevSecOps: Oracle Cloud (OCI), Identity Management, Cloud Security, SaaS Infrastructure, Fit-Gap Analysis, CI/CD, Splunk

• Tools: Jira, Rally, Confluence, Azure DevOps, Miro, MS Excel, SQL, Ansible, Terraform, GitHub Copilot, Productboard, Smartsheet

WORK EXPERIENCE

CHARLES SCHWAB Apr 2023 - Present

Sr. Technical Program Manager San Francisco, CA

• Direct enterprise-wide Agile Release Trains (ART), orchestrating quarterly PI planning, dependency mapping, and risk mitigation sessions for 60+ cross-functional stakeholders to align FinTech product roadmaps.

• Spearhead the technical delivery of critical payment and brokerage applications, managing cross-departmental alignment between Engineering, Product, Vendors, and Operations.

• Accelerated delivery flow and release predictability by 20% across multiple matrixed engineering teams by standardizing SAFe practices and modernizing Jira/Rally workflows.

• Govern end-to-end release activities using automated CI/CD pipelines, ensuring seamless, secure deployments in production and non-production environments.

• Navigate complex financial regulatory frameworks, partnering with compliance and risk teams to secure Change Advisory Board (CAB) approvals for high-stakes enterprise deployments.

• Optimized engineering efficiency by introducing AI-driven development workflows and automation tools, reducing administrative overhead for engineering documentation.

ORACLE CORPORATION Dec 2012 - Apr 2023

Technical Project Manager (OCI Division) Redwood Shores, CA

• Led technical delivery for the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) division, coordinating 25+ Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) to drive high-availability infrastructure initiatives.

• Directed high-impact engineering programs, including server patching, cluster migrations, and node-pool upgrades on OKE

(Oracle Kubernetes Engine) and Docker, maintaining a 99.9% system uptime baseline.

• Embedded automated QA and Test-Driven Development (TDD) workflows into core sprint cycles, reducing post-release defects by 30% and accelerating feature time-to-market.

• Successfully championed a major organizational transition of the ITAS application from Waterfall to Agile (Scrum/Kanban), cutting feature lead times for data-center asset management.

• Served as primary Change Advisory Board (CAB) Liaison, overseeing the end-to-end lifecycle of critical infrastructure security patches with zero unplanned service outages.

• Utilized SQL and data analytics to monitor customer satisfaction and cost performance index (CPI) metrics, transforming raw data into prioritized product backlogs aligned with executive OKRs. EARLY CAREER HISTORY

• Itron Corp Sr. QA Engineer (Contract) Led end-to-end QA for smart grid utility infrastructure.

• Tempo Payments Sr. QA Engineer Developed automated test suites for FinTech payment gateways.

• First Data Corp QA Engineer Executed testing for high-volume merchant processing systems (99.9% uptime). EDUCATION & CERTIFICATION

Bachelor of Science, Engineering - University of Mysore Certified Scrum Master (CSM) - Scrum Alliance

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