Vinit Lenka

About Vinit Lenka

18+ years of software development expertise, working in different roles like Coach, PO, Architect, and driving significant improvements in Financial Services, Retail & Industrial domain. 10+ years of expertise is Agile methodology (Scrum/Kanban/SAFe) as Agile coach / Product Owner / Solution Architect. Key driver of Delivery Transformation for large portfolio from Waterfall to Agile. Successfully led enterprise agile coaching initiatives, resulting in highly collaborative and productive cross-functional teams. Developed enterprise governance model, program cadence and provided technical leadership. Successfully completed Product Management with AI from ISB (Indian School of Business), Hyderabad, applying AI principles to optimize product strategies. 7+ years of extensive onshore experience in the USA, collaborating directly with senior leadership to drive strategic initiatives. As a Product Owner, managed budgets and stakeholder expectations, ensuring timely and quality delivery. Strong knowledge of Gen AI Agents, DevOps practices and cloud technologies, certified in Azure and trained in Github Copilot & AWS, contributing to seamless technology adotion.Championing Better Value Sooner Safer Happier (BVSSH) outcome oriented approach for Business Agility.8+ years of people manager experience in leading and developing diverse and talented teams across geographies. Managed vendor employees and partners for outsourced product development. Expert in Product management; defining Product canvas, Product success metrics, strategic backlog, roadmap, OKRs, prioritization techniques, User Story writing; leading to improved product outcomes. As Solution/Application Architect, designed a highly scalable and resilient customer loyalty platform, processing 15M+ transactions daily, resulting in 30B+ decisions. Spearheaded the application modernization journey, transitioning from Mainframe to Distributed systems, enhancing system performance and scalability. Implemented various Agile technical practices like TDD, BDD, pair programming, and swarming, leading to higher code quality and faster delivery. Experience in Scaled Agile implementations with 20+ scrum teams, improving delivery speed and efficiency.

Experience

1. Business Capability Agile Coach

   John Deere

   Jun 2020 — Present · Pune, IN

Education

• Institute of Technical Education and Research

  Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.)

  2002 — 2006

Skills

• Scrum
• Csm
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Agile Coach
• Safe
• Sql
• Agile Methodologies
• Product Owner
• Business Analysis
• Requirements Gathering
• Ibm Mainframe
• Devops
• Scaled Agile Framework
• Agile Maturity Assessment
• Requirements Analysis
• Safe Agilest
• Product Management
• Rally
• Jira
• Certified Scrum Master