Praveendas Ravichandran
Chennai
Summary
Certified Agile Coach, Scrum Master, and Lead Developer with over 14 years of experience in Java full-stack development and Agile transformation. Expertise in delivering scalable enterprise applications while driving SAFe and Kanban adoption, enabling distributed teams to achieve accelerated delivery, enhanced quality, and improved collaboration. Proficient in implementing CI/CD pipelines, microservices architecture, and cloud integration. Consistently recognized for mentoring and cross-functional leadership. Achievements include a 35% reduction in cycle time, 20% improvement in throughput, 30% increase in deployment frequency, and significant reductions in defect density through data-driven enhancements.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Consultant - Scrum Master
Transunion Global Technology Center
04.2023 - Current
- Drove agile transformation across TUCI Sontiq Teams on core Partner Onboarding, ADA Compliance, Production Support and Data reporting teams.
- Coached 30+ engineers through waterfall-to-agile transition, improving release quality and customer satisfaction.
- Implemented SAFe Kanban framework across three engineering teams, resulting in a 35% reduction in cycle time and a 20% increase in throughput within 12 months.
- Established communities of practice, delivered targeted agile training, and customized frameworks to team needs.
- Developed executive-level ART and multi-team dashboards with Power BI, JIRA rich filters, and analytics for improved visibility and decision-making.
Consultant - Scrum Master
Transunion Global Technology Center
12.2021 - 04.2023
- Working with UDA AWS Cloud Migration, Supporting UDA enhancement for different regions and Development of new BSE Consumer Data Migration teams.
- Facilitating PI Planning, Iteration planning (SAFe), managing risk, dependencies, ensuring mitigation plan in place and removing impediments.
- Partnering with Product Owner for backlog prioritization, DOR, and backlog grooming.
- Responsible for improving the team cohesion and active participation in scrum events by creating different retrospective templates and facilitation techniques.
- Monitoring and tracking the team progress, metrics, risk, dependencies and performance against roadmap plans and communicating to project stakeholders through structured channels.
Senior Associate - Lead Developer
Cognizant Technology Solutions
03.2018 - 12.2021
- Designed and developed Java-based microservices architecture supporting high-volume Insurance applications.
- Led a 12-member distributed full-stack team, delivering complex enterprise-grade applications.
- Integrated front-end Angular frameworks with scalable back-end APIs, ensuring seamless user experiences.
- Established CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Git, Docker) reducing manual deployment efforts by 90%.
- Championed code quality initiatives using PMD, Sonar Qube & automated testing framework, resulting in defect leakage reduction.
- Collaborated with QA and DevOps to enhance release management, performance tuning, and production support.
Associate - Lead Developer
Cognizant Technology Solutions
12.2016 - 03.2018
- Technical lead for 8+ member multi-vendor team onshore.
- Migrated legacy policy admin system to Modern and digital systems using Angular 6+, Spring boot, MongoDB technologies.
- As a lead developer, helping team in technical queries and involved in US development in spring boot, Java technologies.
- Involved in Tech currency upgrades like migrating WS8 services in Pivotal Cloud Foundry(PCF), Gradle conversion, fixing black duck vulnerabilities, Junit version upgrades.
- Story author on Technical US and involved in story estimates.
- Code review, peer-to-peer review and handling the code move to Prod after the end of every iteration(HSP - Jenkins Cloud bees).
- Involved in people management, participate and help in hiring drives.
Associate - Developer
Cognizant Technology Solutions
06.2011 - 12.2016
- Key team member independently worked on analysis and defect fix for a highly distributed architecture workflow.
- Integrated various web services using REST/Soap/JMS.
- Involved in development activities of policy paper generation and change transactions for a Auto policy admin system.
- Leading team during client calls from offshore.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Valliammai Engineering College
Chennai06.2010
Skills
- JIRA project management
- Java development
- Angular framework 6
- Spring Boot expertise
- CI/CD - Jenkins and UCD
- Skilled in using Power BI Desktop
- Experience with SAFe implementation
- Agile project management
- Experience with XP methodologies
- Data Modelling, MongoDB, Kafka
- HTML, CSS
- Kanban Management Professional
Accomplishments
- Certified Java Full Stack Developer
- ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile coaching (ICP-ACC)
- Professional Scrum Master - II (PSM-II)
- Certified ScrumMaster ® (CSM ®)
- SAFe ® 6.0 Certified Scrum Master
- SAFe ® 6.0 Certified Product Owner/Product Manager
- Kanban Management Professional KMP-1
Timeline
Senior Consultant - Scrum Master
Transunion Global Technology Center
04.2023 - Current
Consultant - Scrum Master
Transunion Global Technology Center
12.2021 - 04.2023
Senior Associate - Lead Developer
Cognizant Technology Solutions
03.2018 - 12.2021
Associate - Lead Developer
Cognizant Technology Solutions
12.2016 - 03.2018
Associate - Developer
Cognizant Technology Solutions
06.2011 - 12.2016
Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Valliammai Engineering College