Nitesh Kumar Kautharapu

• Identify Anti patterns, coach team on Agile,scrum,Lean,TDD practices and guide team towards incremental delivery of value
• Work with Leadership team to create environment with more psychological safety
• Help to conduct Agile health assessments to understand and improve on teams maturity towards Agile practices
• Participate in Agile release train events including program refinement,PI Planning( Pre & Post), Inspect and Adapt sessions
• Conducted Scrum of Scrums , identified program risks and helped product managers to have PO Sync
• Coach and mentor teams to identify and resolve impediments, bottlenecks, manage dependencies. This has shown good improvement at team level metrics like increase in velocity by 15%
• Delivered workshops on user story estimation, team collaboration to help teams in increasing commitment. This has visibly shown increase of commitment by 20%
• Work with other Agile coaches and participate in COP and LACE

• Coached 3+ teams having more than 35 team members on Scrum practices, which resulted in improved estimating by 70%
• Supported 5+ Product Owners to improve story writing, feature discovery, and requirements gathering process which led to increase in customer satisfaction and decrease in time-to-delivery by 20%
• Slashed re-work rate by 90% through coaching and training team on bug discovery late in sprints
• Coordinated Quarterly Business reviews for products to align to company Vision and Objectives
• Facilitate all Agile ceremonies defined such as Sprint planning, review, retrospective and daily stand-ups

Automation and Site reliability Engineer for managing ~ 400K windows endpoints across HSBC.