Narasimha Badrinath

• Watsonx Challenge Leadership:
• Judge and Lead Mentor for the Watsonx Challenge at the IBM level, which had participation from nearly 24,000 teams and 154,000 individuals.
• Leveraged watsonx.ai and data tools to develop innovative applications, showcasing the full potential of the Watsonx platform.
• Watsonx Community Building:
• Pioneered the establishment of the CIO Watsonx Community within CIO, rapidly amassing a robust membership of over 1,100 members within just 3 weeks.
• Orchestrated this community to effectively prepare and engage members for the Watsonx Challenge, fostering a collaborative environment for learning and growth.
• Advanced Knowledge of IBM Technologies:
• Proficiently worked with IBM’s AI technologies such as Watson Assistant and Discovery, as well as CP4D (Cloud Pak for Data), further contributing to a comprehensive skill set and technological acumen.
• DevOps Transformation Expertise:
• Successfully coached and guided 4 teams through a transformative journey, substantially reducing lead times from weeks to an impressive 15 minutes.
• Elevated automation test coverage across the entire product from 0% to an impressive 60%, while elevating deployment frequency from monthly to multiple times within a week.
• Conducted highly impactful webinars targeting DevOps awareness and best practices, orchestrating a substantial increase in attendance from around 50 participants to an impressive 400 attendees.
• CIO CI/CD Solution Implementation:
• Mentored around 50 application teams encompassing approximately 150 repositories in the seamless adoption of the in-house CI/CD solution, pivotal in ensuring ITSS compliance and slashing lead times.
• Contributed significantly to the enhancement of the common CIO CI/CD solution by introducing multiple features for improved efficiency.
• Expertise in Clean Code and XP:
• Spearheaded the XP Farm initiative, providing mentorship and guidance to approximately 150 developers, focusing on clean code principles and extreme programming practices to elevate coding standards and product quality.
• Driving App Modernisation:
• Expertly assisted numerous teams with the seamless migration from Ant to Maven, while also implementing an optimised branching strategy.
• Facilitated the smooth transition to Cirrus cloud and containerisation of applications, significantly enhancing overall efficiency and operational effectiveness.
• Leadership Labs Initiative:
• Co-created and led the Leadership Labs program, where 12 emerging leaders were mentored on refining team structures to enhance communication, optimising processes for accelerated value delivery, and adopting technical practices for efficient management of technical debt.

Member of Agile& DevOps Center of Excellence and key contributor to the DevOps and Software Engineering workstreams at enterprise level.

• Leadership in Fuel Pricing System Product:
• Spearheaded the comprehensive establishment of a continuous delivery pipeline for the Fuel Pricing System (FPS) product.
• Led and coordinated a diverse team of over 40 developers, testers, architects, and business analysts throughout the entire process.
• Fostered close collaboration with Program Managers, Architects, and members of the Azure Center of Excellence, ensuring alignment and synergy across teams.
• Played a pivotal role in introducing a DevOps mindset and practices across the entire FPS team by conducting insightful sessions that elucidated the manifold benefits of such an approach in their day-to-day work.
• Expertly leveraged a comprehensive array of tools and technologies including C#, .NET, Microservices, Angular, Azure DevOps, Git, Sonar, Selenium, and SoapUI to architect and refine the FPS product.
• Agile & DevOps Center of Excellence Engagement:
• Actively participated as a valued member of the Agile & DevOps Center of Excellence, contributing significantly to the advancement of DevOps and Software Engineering practices on an enterprise scale.
• Instrumental in spearheading the initiation of a transformative DevOps journey for a geographically dispersed business line within the organization.
• Demonstrated my expertise by meticulously evaluating nominated products from diverse business lines to gauge their Agile and DevOps maturity levels.
• Achievements Highlight:
• Achieved a remarkable reduction in feature delivery time, slashing it from a span of 3 days down to an impressive 30 minutes, signifying a significant improvement in efficiency and agility.
• Drove a substantial surge in the frequency of code check-ins, increasing them from approximately 3 per day to an impressive average of 10, attributing this success to the swift build and deploy times of less than 15 minutes.
• Created a robust Agile & DevOps assessment framework, designed to benefit up to 3000 IT professionals, ensuring a standardized and consistent approach to measure and enhance these practices across the organization.

Responsible for transformation of a portfolio having several development teams geographically distributed and is very new to agile way of working

• Portfolio Transformation Leadership:
• Led the comprehensive transformation of a portfolio encompassing geographically distributed development teams that were relatively new to Agile methodologies.
• Engaged in frequent and strategic interactions with directors and technical managers to collaboratively steer the transformational journey towards the defined objectives.
• Provided thorough training, expert coaching, and adeptly facilitated critical Scrum events for multiple teams, enabling seamless integration of Agile practices into their workflow.
• Enforcing Adherence to Best Practices:
• Took a proactive stance in ensuring the adherence of each user story to the established practices, fostering consistency and quality across the team's deliverables.
• Initiated the integration of a select set of software engineering practices as part of the Definition of Done (DoD), and progressively evolved the DoD to encompass a broader spectrum of practices, promoting higher quality deliverables.

• Collaborated closely with the Product Owner, Business Analyst, and Stakeholders to translate concepts into executable code.
• Designed and executed a robust, enterprise-scale solution capable of managing assets, configurations, invoices, disputes, and various backend services.
• Developed a streamlined Single Sign-On solution to cover a suite of applications.
• Constructed a sample application that fully embraced cutting-edge client-side technologies, intended to secure approval for the rewrite of an existing application. This aimed to enhance responsiveness and align with the latest trends in software development.
• Established a comprehensive continuous delivery pipeline for an existing application, effectively utilizing TeamCity and Octopus Deploy in conjunction with Git for version control. Integrated Telerik Automation Framework for functional testing, while implementing NUnit and XUnit for unit test cases and API testing, respectively.

• Accountable for design and development of new modules, features and enhancements in an enterprise telecom product.
• Revamped complex modules in existing systems, minimizing technical debt and enhancing feature expandability.
• Played a significant role in establishing an automation framework using Telerik to automate UI test cases.
• Spearheaded the implementation of several extreme programming practices, aiding teammates in their adoption.