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Chandan Kumar

Chandan Kumar

Bangalore

Summary

Accomplished Senior Product Owner at Wells Fargo, adept in API management and product strategy. Proven track record in driving integration solutions and enhancing stakeholder collaboration. Skilled in Agile methodologies, I excel in delivering scalable products that meet customer needs while ensuring security and compliance. Passionate about continuous improvement and team leadership.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Product Owner (Technology) (Vice President)

WELLS FARGO
Bangalore
08.2020 - 05.2024
  • Working with Consumer Lending products - where application ranges from loan origination, verification, underwriting, loan closing and servicing
  • Working as product owner for Integration solution and API management for loan origination and servicing application
  • Focus on creating valued products which is highly scalable and secure by accurate scope management and prioritization of customer requirement
  • Coordinate and drive requirement gathering efforts Partnering with team different teams and stakeholders based in US, Bangalore and Hyderabad
  • Product backlog management by work item grooming and breakdown into right size stories
  • Be part of Epic decomposition .Derive and own features from enterprise statigic dicession captured in Epic, clear communication of sprint goals to scrum team
  • Collaborating with other product managers on the overall product intention road maps for lending application(LOS), close collaboration with splint team through diffenr scrum ceremonies and meetings
  • Define the vision and roadmap for team , communicated the goal of MVPs customers and other stakeholders ,be part of system demon and provide the feedback to scrum team.
  • Clearly online the Definition of done and acceptance criteria for Loan origination system and any integration effort with different system
  • Make sure the acceptance criteria cature all the non functional requirement which address security,scalability,availability,tracibility
  • Gain alignment between business and technology on goals, anti-goals, pain points
  • As a product owner, conducting domain driven design working session which includes Event Storming, Domain Model, Data Model, which involved simple and Complex use cases
  • Conducting in depth business and technical discovery which set up deliverables as input to the development, security, gameplan, release game plan
  • Creating user stories, refining user stories with scrum team in backlog refinement session twice in a week by ensuring acceptance criteria clearly understood and story pointed
  • Prioritising stories at least 3 sprints ahead with refined and pointed by the scrum team
  • Accepting user stories once personally review with the development pairs and meet these stories per the definition of done (DoD)
  • Verifies program logic by overseeing the preparation of test data, testing and debugging of programs
  • Ownership of sprint review presented to business stakeholders as per defined MVP and sprint goal success
  • Approve production deployments deliverables, creating dashboards for deployable stories and coordinates with all stakeholder during business validation activities
  • Coordinates technical and business validation during production release day and communicates with stakeholders about the status of production deployment for owned application
  • As product owner, maintain metrics like - Escaped Defects and Defects Density, Team Velocity Sprint, Sprint and Release Burndown Charts, Team Member Turnover, Scope Changes and Team Capacity
  • Owner of application quality metrics like SonarQube, Venafi checks, Checkmarks Scan, Final Security Review feedback
  • Maintaining continuous and cadenced communication with delivery managers and development teams
  • Demonstrate continuous growth in understanding the customer, user and Wells Fargo needs related to the product
  • Assisting with the BCP tasks such as Exercise and Maintenance and also maintains application SLA plan

Senior Software Engineer (Technology/Integration)

WELLS FARGO
01.2015 - 08.2020
  • Delivering secure API integration & API Management Solution for various banking applications with the internal and external hosted APIs using Low code no code first approach in mind
  • Preparing and delivering project reports, communicating project progress/results and other relevant project information to stakeholders and management; supporting and identifying continuous improvements within project processes within Scrum setup
  • Following up with clients throughout the project lifecycle to ensure full understanding of needs and concerns
  • Mapping business requirements by undertaking quick gap analysis; understanding business processes and analysing the workflow to design solutions (as-is, to-be and why-why analysis & freezing) and translating business requirements into functional specifications with low code no code approach
  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams for review activities like requirements, design, test strategy and any automation opportunity, resource management, Hiring new talent for team, Coaching team, Feedback on team performance
  • Developing & implementing a robust Disaster Recovery strategy for critical systems and infrastructure
  • Coordinating with scrum teams to determine product features and manage product backlog items, as well as communicating with stakeholders to ensure customer satisfaction
  • Promoting the infrastructure programmability and automation via API First, Container First, and Cloud First initiatives
  • Knowledge on compliance and compliance adherence via functional or non-functional requirement
  • Facilitates and lead the Discovery session to explore Event Storming, Complex/Simple Use cases, Data and Domain Model
  • Expected Request and Response JSON schema and JSON samples
  • Self - Testing JSON payload by using swagger
  • API testing using Postman, Service testing using Jmeter
  • Creating gameplan or production release document, Secure Development Entities (SDE), Final Security Review approvals for each release activities
  • Performing various static application scans like checkmarx, venafi for code quality
  • Liaising with App Architects in identifying critical architectural and infrastructure gaps and suggest recommendation to solve potential problems and security issues
  • Created user stories to help product owner on various modules
  • Handling in planning and executing training and development program for existing or new team members
  • Lead 10 team members based in US, Bangalore, Hyderabad

DataPower Specialist

IBM India
04.2013 - 12.2014

Configured DataPower XI52, IDG, and IDGX2 appliances using webGUI, CLI, and SOMA interface for automation.

Developed message transformations with XSLT, including custom policies for routing and protocol mediation.

Designed integration with MQ in high availability clustering for complex environments.

Managed transformation needs for various message types like XML, SOAP, and JSON using DataPower.

Created design documents based on collected requirements to ensure accurate implementation.

Collaborated with vendors to configure secure API integration and certificate management.

Oversaw initial DataPower appliance setup, integrating with Tivoli and WSRR alongside alarm configurations.

Automated metrics reporting through Splunk dashboard creation and alert query development.

Software Engineer

Torry Harris Business Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (THBS)
09.2010 - 04.2013
  • Develop and support billing application for Everything everywhere (UK telecom company).
  • Based on new requirement or ennahcement update the VC++ codebase.
  • Perform unit test for the change made in the code.
  • Support end to end integration test and stress test . and provide the metrics to provide the evidence that application working as expected and meeting all SLA.
  • Prepare different reports for the customers showing the usage , error and SLS met or missed
  • Particicape in the troubleshooting sessions

Software Engineer

Precedence Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
06.2009 - 09.2010

Worked on Smart Card Driving License and Registration and Issuing software

Migrated queries and data and stored procedure from windows SQL server to oracle

VC++ coding, debug issue and fixes using the visual studio

Education

AGMP - Accelarated General Management Programme

Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad
09.2022

B.E. - Information Science & Engineering

JSSATE
Bangalore
01.2008

Master of Science - Data Science and AI

PES University
Bangalore

Skills

  • Product requirement
  • Scrum framework
  • Agile practices
  • Kanban
  • Scrum
  • Confluence
  • JIRA
  • Product release
  • Product strategy
  • Stakeholder management
  • System Integration solutions
  • Product management
  • API management & Integration
  • Pivotal Cloud Foundry
  • PCF
  • Microsoft Azure Cloud
  • Splunk
  • Microservices
  • APIs
  • RDBMs
  • Non-Relational DBs
  • SOAP
  • Json
  • REST
  • IBM datapower
  • IBM MQ
  • Google APIgee
  • Python
  • SQL
  • Data analysis
  • Visualization
  • Tableau
  • Power BI
  • Prompt Engineering
  • RestFul APIs
  • Github
  • Postman
  • CI-CD
  • Data science
  • Machine Learning
  • Sampling
  • Univariate analysis
  • Bi-variate analysis
  • Descriptive statistics
  • Missing value treatment
  • Outlier Treatment
  • Normality Tests
  • Predictive Analysis
  • Hypothesis Testing
  • Feature Engineering
  • Regression
  • Classification
  • Clustering

Certification

  • SAFe 6 Product Owner / Product Manager, 01/2025
  • Professional Scrum Product Owner 1 (PSPO1), 09/2024
  • Microsoft Azure Cloud Fundamentals - AZ900, AZ204, Certification Date Not Specified
  • Splunk Fundamental 1, Certification Date Not Specified
  • API Development on Google Cloud's Apigee API platform, Certification Date Not Specified
  • Vulnerability Management (Qualys), Certification Date Not Specified

Languages

  • English
  • Hindi

Personal Information

  • Notice Period: Immediate joiner
  • Date of Birth: 02/28/86

Accomplishments

  • WellsFargo product champion award for seamlessly integrating the notification system to loan origination system.

Timeline

Senior Product Owner (Technology) (Vice President)

WELLS FARGO
08.2020 - 05.2024

Senior Software Engineer (Technology/Integration)

WELLS FARGO
01.2015 - 08.2020

DataPower Specialist

IBM India
04.2013 - 12.2014

Software Engineer

Torry Harris Business Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (THBS)
09.2010 - 04.2013

Software Engineer

Precedence Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
06.2009 - 09.2010

AGMP - Accelarated General Management Programme

Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

B.E. - Information Science & Engineering

JSSATE

Master of Science - Data Science and AI

PES University
Chandan Kumar