Milind Kharwade

About Milind Kharwade

I’m an Agile Transformation Leader & Technical Program Manager with 15+ years of experience, including 9+ years driving enterprise Agile, SAFe, and program delivery across BFSI (FP & A, Spend Management), Manufacturing, and eCommerce. I specialize in aligning product strategy and OKRs with execution to accelerate value delivery and improve predictability.As an RTE and Agile Coach, I’ve launched and matured multiple ARTs (100+ members) and facilitated PI Planning, ART Sync, Scrum of Scrums, System Demos, and Inspect & Adapt. I coach leaders and teams on Scrum, Kanban, Lean, Value Stream Mapping, and continuous improvement—raising Agile maturity, throughput, and flow.I lead technical programs spanning digital transformation, cloud migration, automation, and mobile delivery. Using data‑driven governance (KPIs, OKRs, RAID, risk registers, probabilistic forecasting) and strong stakeholder management, I’ve reduced feature cycle time by 20% and defect leakage by 35% through stronger DoR/DoD and automation advocacy. In BFSI, I’ve implemented data governance to ensure compliance, privacy, and integrity across systems.I also integrate Generative AI, agentic AI, and prompt engineering to automate backlog triage, KPI/reporting, and executive summaries—cutting reporting effort by ~60% and improving decision speed. Tooling expertise: Jira, Jira Align, Azure DevOps, Confluence, Planview, ServiceNow, Salesforce (Jira–Salesforce integration), MS Project, plus Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT for delivery insights.Open to: Agile Coach / RTE / TPM / Scrum Master roles in BFSI, Manufacturing, or eCommerce where I can scale Agile, improve flow, and deliver measurable business outcomes

Experience

1. Senior Manager

   EY

   Sep 2024 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

Education

• Principal L N Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research L. N. Road, Opp. Matunga Gymkhana, Matunga (Central) Mumbai 400 019

  Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Information Technology Project Management

• Government Polytechnic Bramahapuri

  Bachelor's degree, Information Technology

  2002 — 2006

Skills

• Agile Methodologies
• Talend Open Studio
• Asp.net Ajax
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Javascript
• Ssis
• Css
• .net Framework
• C#
• .net
• Entity Framework
• Html
• Ssrs
• Sql
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Asp.net
• Requirements Analysis
• Team Management
• Jquery
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Web Applications
• Mysql
• Web Services
• C
• Cascading Style Sheets (Css)
• Sql Server Management Studio
• C++
• Iis
• Ado.net
• Ajax
• Databases