Experienced Scrum Master with 9.6 years of industry experience and 4.6 years dedicated to Agile leadership. Demonstrated success in spearheading Agile transformations across Banking, IT, and Manufacturing sectors. At Danske Bank (via Infosys), orchestrated a team of 19, resulting in a 30% increase in velocity, a 20% boost in productivity, and a 40% improvement in effort variance through strategic capacity planning and Kanban methodologies to optimize processes.
Hi, I’m
Kislay Dharmendra
Scrum Master
Pune
Summary
Overview
5
years of professional experience
5
Certifications
Work History
Infosys Limited
Senior Associate Consultant
05.2024 - Current
Job overview
- Led a cross-functional team of 19 professionals as a Scrum Master, driving a 30% increase in team velocity through proactive impediment removal and optimized sprint facilitation.
- Orchestrated Agile ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, and Retrospectives, while managing user story prioritization on JIRA to ensure zero spillovers.
- Utilized Kanban boards and lean principles to visualize workflows, identify critical bottlenecks in sprint progress, and implement strategies that boosted productivity by 20%.
- Facilitated high-impact Sprint Retrospectives that identified and eliminated process bottlenecks, leading to a 20% reduction in cycle time and a measurable increase in team predictability and morale.
- Improved effort variance by 40% by refining project estimation and capacity planning specifically for Camunda BPM processes.
- Streamlined the refinement process by facilitating team-based estimations, reducing technical debt by 15% and ensuring a refined backlog that eliminated mid-sprint delays.
Mizutech Engineers India Pvt Ltd
Project Manager
02.2023 - 04.2024
Job overview
- Elevated team Scrum maturity by implementing rigorous Sprint Ceremonies and Definition of Done (DoD) standards, resulting in a 40% reduction in technical debt and a significant increase in self-organization and feature ownership.
- Leveraged Sprint Burndown and Release Burnup charts to provide real-time visibility into progress, improving stakeholder confidence and achieving a 98% accuracy rate in sprint commitment completion.
- Established a comprehensive Agile metrics suite—tracking Velocity, Throughput, and Defect Density—to monitor team health, leading to a 15% year-over-year improvement in sprint predictability and output quality.
- Applied systems thinking to analyze the value stream, identifying and removing workflow bottlenecks that slashed Cycle Time by 25% and increased overall team throughput by optimizing the Work in Progress (WIP) limits.
India Political Action Committee
Associate
12.2022 - 05.2023
Job overview
- Implemented data-driven strategies to assess the impact and effectiveness of grassroots initiatives, utilizing metrics to measure community engagement and awareness levels.
- Applied Agile methodologies to streamline processes, facilitating effective collaboration and communication within teams.
- Implemented data analytics to gauge brand impact and awareness level.
ICICI Bank
Scrum Master
06.2021 - 11.2022
Job overview
- Acted as the primary liaison between technical teams and management, implementing automated reporting dashboards that reduced communication overhead by 20% and accelerated the resolution of critical blockers by 24 hours on average.
- Optimized product backlog health by leading collaborative estimation and prioritization sessions, resulting in 40% improvement in sprint velocity predictability and more reliable release forecasting.
- Partnered with Product Owners to refine and prioritize backlogs using Jira, improving story point estimation accuracy by 30% and ensuring 95% alignment between sprint goals and long-term business objectives.
- Proactively identified and neutralized technical and organizational blockers, increasing team focus and boosting overall productivity by 25%, while maintaining a consistent 90% or higher Sprint Burndown rate.
Education
Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research MumbaiMumbai
PGDM from Business Design
05.2021
University Overview
GPA: 7.72/10 CGPA
GL Bajaj Institute of Technology and ManagementGreater Noida
B. TECH from Computer Science
05.2013
University Overview
GPA: 65.8%
Ganga International School
AISSCE
05.2008
University Overview
GPA: 75.8%
DAV Public School
SSC
05.2006
University Overview
GPA: 86.6%
Skills
Project planning
Certification
Certified Scrum Master: Scrum Alliance
Timeline
Senior Associate Consultant
Infosys Limited
05.2024 - Current
Project Manager
Mizutech Engineers India Pvt Ltd
02.2023 - 04.2024
Associate
India Political Action Committee
12.2022 - 05.2023
Scrum Master
ICICI Bank
06.2021 - 11.2022
Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research Mumbai
PGDM from Business Design
GL Bajaj Institute of Technology and Management
B. TECH from Computer Science
Ganga International School
AISSCE
DAV Public School
SSC