Executive Summary
Technical Project Manager with 14+ years of experience delivering digital solutions across Banking, Automotive, and Supply Chain & Logistics for Fortune 500 clients. Blend of hands-on engineering depth and project management discipline: detailed project planning, sprint execution (Agile, Scrum, SAFe), risk identification and prioritization, cross-functional coordination, and independent client communication with US-based stakeholders. Early adopter and internal champion of AI across the SDLC — embedding Generative AI (Claude Code, VS Code AI/GitHub Copilot) into planning, requirements analysis, development, code review, testing, and status reporting to raise team velocity and delivery quality.
- Led distributed, cross-cultural teams (engineers across 5 Indian states + US-based client stakeholders); drove weekly client calls and status reporting independently
- Delivered 10+ legacy modernization initiatives (Struts/Vaadin/desktop Java → Angular + Spring Boot microservices) with improved on-time delivery and reduced production defects
- SAFe 4 Agile Practitioner; hands-on with Scrum ceremonies, quarterly PI planning, and Azure DevOps-based tracking & reporting; working knowledge of Kanban principles
Core Competencies
Project & Delivery Management
- Project Planning & Execution Tracking
- Agile, Scrum, SAFe · Kanban (working knowledge)
- Risk Identification & Prioritization
- Weekly Status & Executive Reporting
- Stakeholder & Client Management
- Escalation & Production Issue Management
AI in the SDLC (Gen AI)
- AI Adoption Strategy & Team Enablement
- Prompt Engineering · Claude Code
- VS Code AI / GitHub Copilot
- AI-Assisted Code Review
- AI-Generated Test Suites & Documentation
- AI Governance: Review Gates, Security & Quality Guardrails
Technical Leadership
- Microservices Architecture · Legacy Modernization
- Cloud (AWS, Azure)
- Full-Stack: Java, Spring Boot, Angular, React, TypeScript
- DevOps & CI/CD · Kafka · OpenShift · Docker · PostgreSQL
People & Business
- Team Building & Mentoring (10+ engineers)
- Performance Management
- Digital Transformation · Process Optimization
- Multilingual: English, Telugu, Hindi
AI Across the SDLC — Adoption & Impact
Championed and operationalized Generative AI adoption across every phase of the delivery lifecycle — as both a manager driving team-wide adoption and an individual contributor using AI tooling daily:
- Planning & Estimation: Use Claude to break epics into granular user stories, generate task breakdowns and dependency maps, and pressure-test sprint estimates — improving sprint predictability and PI planning accuracy
- Requirements & Analysis: Apply Gen AI to summarize client discussions, convert raw requirement notes into structured user stories with acceptance criteria, and surface ambiguities/edge cases before development starts
- Development: Built reusable prompt template libraries for generating Spring Boot service layers, Angular components, Jasper Report configurations, and migration scripts for Struts/Vaadin modernization — accelerating delivery on repetitive, pattern-heavy work
- Code Review & Quality: Integrated Claude into the PR workflow to pre-screen pull requests for anti-patterns, security vulnerabilities, and test-coverage gaps before human review — increasing review throughput while keeping engineers as the final quality gate
- Testing: Generate unit test suites (JUnit, Jasmine/Karma) and edge-case scenarios with AI assistance, raising coverage on modernized modules and reducing regression escapes
- Reporting & Communication: Use AI to draft weekly client status summaries, risk/dependency reports, and sprint retrospective insights from Azure DevOps data — freeing time for stakeholder engagement
- Team Enablement & Governance: Evangelized AI-assisted practices through internal knowledge-sharing sessions; defined usage guardrails (human review gates, data-sensitivity rules) so AI accelerates delivery without compromising code quality or client IP
Professional Experience
Bonbloc Technologies, Hyderabad — Manager, Engineering & Delivery
Mar 2023 – PresentClient: McLane (Fortune 500 Supply Chain Leader) · Cross-cultural team of 7 engineers across 5 Indian states + US-based stakeholders
- Project Ownership: Own end-to-end delivery planning — detailed project plans, sprint scoping, execution tracking in Azure DevOps, and progress reporting to client and leadership
- Client Communication: Drive weekly client calls independently; single point of coordination between US business stakeholders and the offshore engineering team, producing weekly summary reports covering progress, risks, and dependencies
- AI in SDLC: Introduced and scaled Claude Code + VS Code AI across the team's development, review, and testing workflows; measurable gains in sprint velocity and review throughput
- Digital Transformation: Spearheaded modernization of 10+ legacy applications (Struts, Vaadin → Angular + Java full stack) across billing, pricing, logistics, and inventory domains
- Risk & Reliability: Identify and prioritize delivery risks across internal and client stakeholders; reduced critical bug incidents via strengthened code review and automated testing; managed zero-downtime deployments
- Agile Delivery: Implemented SAFe 4 practices — daily scrums, iterative cycles, quarterly planning — improving on-time delivery rates and sprint predictability
- People Leadership: Mentored 7 engineers; conducted performance appraisals; sustained high engagement across a geographically distributed team
Ness Technologies, Hyderabad — Manager, Technical (prior: Lead – Technical)
Nov 2018 – Mar 2023Client: Cox Automotive · Online Registration & Titling Solutions (multi-state automotive platform)
- Sprint & Release Leadership: Orchestrated sprint execution, quarterly planning, and deliverable tracking; kept engineering aligned to business objectives and reported progress to client leadership
- Requirements Management: Gathered and clarified requirements directly with Cox Automotive teams; analyzed user stories and resolved specification ambiguities before development
- Legacy Modernization: Converted legacy Java desktop application to Angular + Spring Boot + Hibernate architecture, improving performance and scalability
- Production Support: Debugged and resolved complex production issues and client escalations; converted Crystal Reports to Jasper Reports with configurable multi-state compliance patterns
Tech Mahindra, Hyderabad — Associate Business Consultant
Jan 2017 – Nov 2018Client: SBI Card (50M+ users)
- Security & Compliance: Implemented end-to-end encryption (AES, RSA) and Touch ID authentication for iOS
- Product Delivery: Led development of Bharat QR scanning, merchant payments (Android & iOS), and NFC payment features; managed production issue resolution and PlayStore/AppStore releases
Earlier Experience: Innovapptive — Senior Consultant, Android (2016) · IBM India — Application Developer, Mobile, Client: SunTrust Bank (2014–2016) · Wipro — Project Engineer, Clients: Citi Bank, Marvel Vizio (2011–2014)
Key Achievements
AI Adoption
First within the account to operationalize Gen AI across the SDLC — from story breakdown to AI-screened code review — lifting team-wide productivity and code quality
Client Success
Managed Fortune 500 (McLane) relationship with zero critical escalations; trusted to drive client calls and reporting independently
Transformation
10+ legacy applications modernized; improved deployment speed, reliability, and maintainability
Team Building
Built and retained a high-performing distributed team of 7 engineers across 5 states with consistent on-time delivery
Education & Certifications
- SAFe 4 Agile Practitioner Certification (2020)
- Generative AI, Prompt Engineering & Claude Code — advanced proficiency; active daily use in development and team workflows
- B.Sc. Biotechnology, Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology, Hyderabad (2007–2011)
Languages
Beyond the day job, I design and ship AI-first products end-to-end — working hands-on with Claude Code across architecture, development, review and delivery. Four active builds:
HAIL
LiveCorporate platform for my international trade venture — exports & imports across textiles, apparel and agro-processing. Multi-module site with trade-quote workflows, admin dashboards and AI-generated partnership proposals.
Autobot 2.0
In productionAI-powered WhatsApp assistant for a diagnostic-lab franchise network — multilingual patient conversations (English, Telugu, Hindi), automated lab-report delivery, conversational test booking and franchise finance analytics, with a multi-tenant operator dashboard.
myOS
ResearchExperimental agentic operating system in Rust where the AI is the interface — an in-process local LLM inference engine, on-the-fly generative UI, tiered semantic memory and a privacy-first security model (consent-gated actions, tamper-evident audit).
TheBATALhub
In developmentAI print-on-demand automation — fashion designs generated and quality-scored by AI, auto-listed to the storefront, fulfilled through print-on-demand partners, with a conversational shopping agent across web, WhatsApp and Telegram.
Every project is built AI-pair-programmed — the same Gen-AI-in-the-SDLC practice I champion professionally, applied to my own products.