Jira
Abhinav Gopalakrishna Pillai
21 Olivine Road Keilor East,VIC
Summary
Certified Scrum Master and Engineering Manager with over 12 years of experience in the ICT industry that encapsulates a proven track record of 5 years in driving scalable enterprise initiatives, delivering complex digital products and leading high performing development resources to success using Scrum methodologies. Have also demonstrated skills in software development for 5 years and business analysis for 3 years. Committed to rapidly and efficiently completing projects by leveraging team-based frameworks to leverage optimal agile methodologies.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate
3
3
Languages
Work History
Associate Engineering Manager/Delivery Lead/Software Engineer
ELMO
12.2021 - 09.2023
- Enforced scrum principles and mentored 2 cross-functional scrum teams to adapt agile values, principles, and practice
- Facilitated Sprint ceremonies – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives
- Managed delivery of several product enhancement features(OKRs) for core HR product in CI/CD methodology within committed deadlines that contributed to 33% of total revenue
- Collaborated with product owners, team leads, peer engineering managers and product managers between spanning across multiple nations(Australia, Philippines and Ukraine) to achieve common deliverables
- Drove high-level strategic planning of development efforts across multiple projects to optimize resource utilization and shorten development times
- Onboarded, upskilled and managed development resources to achieve strategic product priorities
- Allied with product managers and squad leaders to plan and manage resources around reaching prescribed development milestones
- Held 1:1s with development team resources to support and enable them progress and succeed in their career
- Monitor and evaluate engineering team performance. Provided regular feedbacks to engineers and senior leadership on individual performance metrics and observations
- Created and monitored compliance with delivery schedule milestones to support consistent progress toward internal goals.
- Coordinated employee scheduling around delivery timeframes, resolving conflicts and supporting consistent availability of necessary competencies
- Communicated project updates to stakeholders at all levels.
- Instrumental in setting up various process improvements and mentoring that improved product quality, product stability and team efficiency by up to 15%
- Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for biweekly sprint releases
- Researched and Developed code in PHP(Symfony) and Nodejs and showcased them to different teams
Project Director/Engineering Manager
Omniware Technologies Pvt Ltd
11.2015 - 10.2021
- Facilitated all scrum ceremonies for the team
- Managed delivery of Fintech product increments in CI/CD methodology within committed deadlines
- Managed, mentored and framed career growth plans development team with team size of 5 members across all phases of development
- Evaluated ongoing development efforts, providing feedback on potential methods of expediting completion and improving final results.
- Improved and designed monitoring systems to address issues with system stability and quality of data
- Employed coding practices based on commonly accepted standards to establish site layout and user interface
- Recruited and oversaw personnel to achieve performance and quality targets.
- Managed delivery of several product enhancement features in CI/CD methodology within committed deadlines
- Drove high-level strategic planning of development efforts across multiple projects to optimize resource utilization and shorten development times.
- Collaborated with operations team and external stakeholders to achieve quality product outcomes
- Attained a 20% increase in velocity with process changes
- Inspired and motivated team toward meeting company and project objectives and goals
- Designed testing protocols to locate issues within system
- Designed and developed efficient and maintainable software according to business objectives and needs of various clients
Business Consultant
BlueYonder
07.2012 - 10.2015
- Coordinated closely with development and testing team to ensure timely and smooth completion of project development activities
- Generated business intelligence reports and performed data analysis to inform strategic decision-making
- Improved business processes by analyzing current practices and recommending optimization strategies.
- Developed automation tools using Core Java
- Conducted demos to external and internal stakeholders about new functionalities in software systems showing how those business requirements were achieved technically
- Provided technical and functional support to clients that fulfilled or exceeded customer satisfaction goals in consistent manner
- Enhanced client satisfaction ratings by resolving difficult customer issues through completion
- Prepared and documented test cases for automation testing as part of QA
Software Engineer
Acropetal Technologies Limited
10.2011 - 07.2012
- Designed and developed software applications to automate manual operational tasks using Core Java
- Provided technical support to clients within given S.L.As
- Worked with project managers, developers, quality assurance and customers to resolve technical issues
- Improved system performance by making proactive adjustments and resolving bugs
- Created detailed and well-structured test plans and test cases
Programmer Analyst
Accelya Kale Solutions Limited
11.2009 - 01.2011
- Developed object oriented code for airline cargo software application using COOLGEN
- Coordinated with business analysts to take technical designs and develop them into corresponding software functionality
- Created test cases for software functionalities
- Developed software script to generate business reports
- Investigated application issues, identified causes and initiated troubleshooting methods for immediate resolution
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Science
Visvesvaraya Technological University (RNSIT)
Bengaluru, India07.2009
12th Standard - Science
Kendriya Vidyalaya Malleshwaram
Bengaluru, India03.2005
Skills
- Delivery Management
- Business Analysis
- Quality Assurance Controls
- Scrum Methodology
- Sprint management in JIRA
- Timesheets management in Tempo
- Collaboration in Miro
- AWS- Cloud
- Continuous Integration Software
- Release Planning
- Process Streamlining
- Team Collaboration
- Software Development in LAMP stack with Laravel and Symfony
- Front End (HTML/CSS/JS, JQuery)
- Java
Notice Period
Immediate
Certification
Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®)
Scrum Alliance
Issued Aug 2022
Expires Aug 2024
Credential ID 1639991
Visa Status
Australian Permanent Resident. Unlimited work rights
Timeline
Associate Engineering Manager/Delivery Lead/Software Engineer
ELMO
12.2021 - 09.2023
Project Director/Engineering Manager
Omniware Technologies Pvt Ltd
11.2015 - 10.2021
Business Consultant
BlueYonder
07.2012 - 10.2015
Software Engineer
Acropetal Technologies Limited
10.2011 - 07.2012
Programmer Analyst
Accelya Kale Solutions Limited
11.2009 - 01.2011
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Science
Visvesvaraya Technological University (RNSIT)
12th Standard - Science
Kendriya Vidyalaya Malleshwaram
Work Preference
Work Type
Full TimeWork Location
On-SiteHybridRemoteImportant To Me
Career advancementPersonal development programsCompany CultureSoftware
Confluence
Excel
MIRO
Tempo
PHP
Laravel
Symfony
MySQL
Accomplishments
- Mentored 4 new employees to bring them up to speed on projects, resulting in quicker overall completion milestones.
- Increased team efficiency of about 15% by implementing various productivity initiatives.
- Earned "E Cube Award" Award at ELMO Software for implementing microservice between multiple modules for the first time as a team.
- Earned "Individual Pillar Award, Center of Excellence H3 2013" Award at JDA Software for guiding team to support business application and working towards achieving best customer satisfaction.
- Earned "Shining Star" Award at Blue Yonder for best individual performance for the month of August 2015.
- Earned "Shining Star" Award at Blue Yonder for best individual performance for the month of January 2015.
- Earned " S.P.O.T" Award at Blue Yonder for best individual performance within the module for the year 2014.
- Earned " S.P.O.T" Award at Blue Yonder for best individual performance within the module for the year 2013.
- Earned " S.P.O.T" Award at Blue Yonder for best individual performance within the module for the year 2012.
References
References Available Upon Request
Quote
If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.
Steve Jobs
Interests
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Travel
Gaming
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