Strategic Leader with 20+ years of experience, including 15+ years in driving Agile digital transformations across Banking & Financial services. Expert in Scaled Agile (SAFe), Lean Portfolio Management, and Enterprise Governance, with hands-on leadership in establishing ARTs, value streams, POD-based delivery models, and Centers of Excellence (CoE).
Strong track record of delivering tangible financial across value streams, OKR frameworks, and business value realization metrics.
HDFC ERGO General Insurance
India
Led enterprise-wide end to end implementation programs across product and platform teams, driving measurable business value through continuous process optimisation. Driven AI assisted program management initiatives across products for faster and quicker delivery.
Driven execution timelines, scale-up plans, and on-ground delivery that led to savings of 15% across LOBs
Defined and tracked key program metrics and outcomes and review with senior leadership on a weekly basis
Worked closely with migration teams on data mapping, cleansing, and validations that led to application efficiency
Managed project risks issues dependencies and mitigation plans proactively thereby improved delivery rate by 12%
Designed and implemented enterprise value streams and Agile Release Trains (ARTs) across 15+ teams improving delivery predictability by 15% and cross-team alignment by 12%.
Deployed and governed SAFe at Program and Portfolio levels with defined KPIs , improving cost efficiency, cycle time, delivery predictability, and operational governance.
Maintained playbooks , training content , trackers and templates across LOBs.
Governed enterprise portfolio planning including Capex/Opex budgets exceeding ₹100+ crore across technology initiatives
Adopted AI LLM tools like Make and Vertex to improve delivery at scale.
Freecharge Payment Technologies
India
Led multi-team Agile delivery for strategic fintech initiatives including digital payments, credit card, and lending platforms.
Improved Agile maturity across teams increasing sprint DOR,DOD enabling quality checks to improve from 65% to 90%.
Introduced value-based backlog prioritization improving product delivery alignment with business OKRs by 30%.
Coached leadership, product managers, and engineers across SAFe practices impacting 1,100+ professionals.
Innovify India Private Limited
India
Coached leadership teams, Scrum Masters, and engineering teams to adopt Agile and product-centric delivery models.
Improved team productivity by 20% through Agile maturity coaching, sprint optimization, and delivery metrics.
Delivered enterprise Agile workshops impacting 1,000+ professionals across product and engineering organizations.
Hanger India Private Ltd
India
Improved ROI by 15% by implementing Scrum and Kanban for delivery execution.
Accelerated product delivery by 20% through structured coaching on Agile engineering and delivery practices.
Delivered Agile leadership awareness sessions for 30+ senior executives, improving adoption at leadership levels.
Verizon Data Services
India
Delivered 39 lakhs in cost savings through Agile Centre of Excellence initiatives.
Reduced time-to-market by 25% by launching 5 Agile Release Trains and training 50+ Agile roles.
Enabled 10lakhs ROI through execution of complex programs, including Bucket Collapse, Single Biller, Reverse IRB.
Maintained 8+ CSAT scores by leading 400+ sprints, ensuring schedule, cost, and quality adherence.
Bank of America
India
Improved leadership visibility by 30% through executive dashboards and performance reporting.
Increased accountability by 18% by enforcing compliance with governance and process standards.
S&P Global
India
Delivered financial analytics and structured research reporting supporting executive decision-making.
Conducted 100+ quality reviews improving compliance standards and reporting accuracy.
Master of Arts
Bachelor of Commerce
PMI
Scrum Alliance
ICAgile
DevOps Institute
Scaled Agile Framework
Scrum Alliance
Six Sigma Certification
APMG Group
APMG Group
Exceeded expectations on enterprise transformation (1UP Program).
Led cloud enablement and JIRA platform modernisation.
Excellence in technical coordination for large programs.
Driving self-organising, value-focused Agile teams.