Aniruddha Kulkarni

About Aniruddha Kulkarni

Agile software professional having 15+ years of global experience in finance domain in various roles, such as Senior Developer/Team Leader/Scrum Master/Agile Coach/Agile Project Manager, and a strong pedagogy to corroborate the hunger for knowledge. Professional Snippet : o Enable scrum adoption in teams, facilitating scrum events such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives. Guiding Product Owners and team for writing user stories, estimations, release and sprint planning, and backlog refinement. o Conducted agile trainings in department to increase their agile fluency level. o Very good exposure on AGILE methodology of Software Development. Exposure to AGILE Software Development practices like Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Pair Programming, Test Driven Development, Business Driven Development. o Deft in leading & guiding team members, enabling knowledge sharing among the team; skilled in goal setting, mentoring and coaching of team member based on the strengths and areas of improvement. o Strong communication, collaboration & team building skills with proficiency at grasping new concepts and utilize the same in productive manner. o Well versed with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) for both waterfall and Agile Methodologies including various phases like requirement analysis, design, and development and testing. o Managing E2E project delivery and program governance across compliance, security, risk and infra. Skill Set : Scrum Master Coaching Training Mentoring Release Management Stakeholder Management Please feel free to reach me at +91••••••••21/ a••••••••@gmail.com

Experience

1. Scrum Master Agile Coach Agile Project Manager

   Barclays

   Mar 2016 — Present · Pune, IN

   Scrum Master: • Acting as scrum master in and across teams in department for training scrum, enabling scrum adoption in teams, facilitating scrum events such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.Also,guiding Product Owners and team for writing user stories, estimations, release and sprint planning, and backlog refinement• Involved in defining acceptance criteria and deliverables for the project• Implemented continuous integration/continuous delivery/Tech. engineering practices in teamsDelivery Management: • Work with Business owners to align and prioritize the program roadmap• Stakeholder Management, establishing and managing complex relationship and governance models with program leads and product owners• Gather information & Prepare documentation for steering committee meetings, town halls, workshops and other stakeholder meetings• Manage Program Governance across compliance, audit, security and risk processes• Working across Delivery teams(s) with Scrum of Scrums for alignment & dependency• Highly efficient in meeting timelines and deliverables by controlling the progress of the deliverables against the planned milestones• Drive projects end to end in agile methodologyStakeholder Management: • Contributed in Stakeholder’s management through consistent client focus, impediments removal and delivering business value, Project planning, risk management and change management• Conducting leadership stand-up and working with them for adoption of agileCoaching:• Transformed teams from waterfall model to scrum model• Coaching Product owner and stakeholders about their roles and involvement in scrum• Conducting leadership stand up at department level to focus on overall working model in agile way Training: • Conducted training sessions across teams on agile/scrum/Kanban for around 100+ members• Involved in department wide coaching of scrum masters, management, business partners and Product Owners

Education

• University of Pune

  Post graduate Diploma in Advanced Computing

  2004

• Savitribai Phule Pune University

  Bachelor's degree in Engineering

  1998 — 2002

Skills

• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Xml
• Sql
• Pl/Sql
• Design Patterns
• Java
• Sybase
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Soa
• Agile Methodologies
• C#
• Sdlc
• Business Analysis
• Wcf
• Software Project Management
• .net