Nikhil Nallapeta

Technical Strategy & Vision:

• Lead the program life cycle from initiation to deployment on the Customer Environment.
• Coordinated and managed cross-functional teams to ensure successful completion of program objectives.
• Led various technology decisions related to scaling, cloud architecture, considering budget constraints, and minimal customer requirements.
• Develop complicated, multi-functional program schedules, identify risks, manage scope and resource changes, and monitor progress against plan.

Process Efficiency:

• Played a pivotal role in influencing the team to adopt Scaled Agile Framework methodologies for estimating complex features and assisting Product Managers with feature prioritization. (Lean Estimation)
• Use project management tools to visualize dependencies in JIRA using Structure and related dashboards.
• Automated JIRA ticket creations using ScriptRunner and defining the various rules.
• Drove continuous process improvement and innovation, identifying ways to reduce friction and increase the velocity of the teams.
• Conducting weekly ops review meetings with leadership to manage risks and delays of the project, and mitigate them.

Leadership:

• Managing a team of 3 program managers.
• Defining KPIs, performing 360 reviews, and providing timely feedback to build effective career paths for the team.
• Provide important data to support critical decision-making through fact-based analysis.
• Define, generate, and assess metrics and key performance indicators for the program.
• Driving different commits like business, concept, execution, operational readiness, readiness review, implementation, and business transition.

• Lead the architecture changes involving migrating from a monolith to microservices, and building better customer segmentation.
• Qualified product with new architecture with multiple processes, multiple JVMs for key functions to support scale of 8000 devices in a single instance.
• Recommended and implemented dockerization of automation suite, improving efficiency of engineers by 20%.
• Led daily stand-up meetings, iteration planning, retrospectives, release planning, demos, and iteration closure for all customer and GA releases.
• Actively contributed to leadership activities through effective mentoring, coaching, and counseling.
• Involved in hiring activities to find great people to support the growth of an organization.

• Writing the test cases as per the feature requirement from PLM.
• Qualifying the customer solutions as per their network requirement in EMS/NMS.
• Automation of GUI-related tests using Java and Selenium WebDriver.
• Provide technical expertise/support to resolve customer issues.
• Carrying out accountabilities within the problem, change, and release management processes as required as an individual contributor.

• Provided technical support for ECI Telecom.
• Resolved customer issues on SDH/SONET.
• Led migration activities of 40G line.

• Involved in the planning of the commissioning parameters, nodal design document, link engineering, and provisioning of the Nodes that are to be implemented on the field.
• Provided support to address configuration challenges at L1/L2 level for Reliance staff.
• Responsible for the Vendor team management for the Installation, Commissioning, and Acceptance testing of the same (End to End Testing).