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Sai Sandeep Gangadhari

Scrum Master
Hyderabad

Summary

Professional Scrum Master (PSM I) and Certified Associate in Project Management(CAPM) with over 6 years of professional experience, including over 4 years of experience as a Scrum Master in Agile environments. Adept at leading cross functional teams, facilitating Scrum ceremonies, and driving successful product delivery using frameworks like Scrum, SAFe, and Kanban. Skilled in coaching teams toward Agile maturity, removing impediments, and fostering a culture of accountability, transparency and continuous improvement. Proficient in leveraging tools such as Jira and Confluence to manage backlogs, track progress, and maintain project
transparency.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
4
4
Certifications

Work History

Scrum Master

US HI-TECH Solutions, INC Corporation
05.2023 - 01.2025
  • Facilitated all core Scrum ceremonies—including Sprint Planning, Daily Standup
  • Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, and Backlog Refinement across two Agile teams to ensure alignment and transparency.
  • Acted as a servant leader, upholding Agile values and Scrum principles to foster a culture of accountability and collaboration.
  • Partnered with Product Owners and development teams to refine backlogs, define sprint goals, and ensure clarity of user stories and acceptance criteria.
  • Proactively identified and removed impediments, maintaining high team velocity and consistent sprint delivery.
  • Tracked and generated key Agile metrics such as velocity, sprint burndown, release burndown, and cycle time to improve forecasting accuracy and delivery predictability.
  • Coached teams through Agile transformation, resulting in a noticeable improvement in sprint velocity and higher engagement in retrospectives.
  • Drove continuous improvement through Agile maturity assessments, actionable retrospective insights, and team feedback loops.
  • Participated in PI Planning, Scrum of Scrums, and ART Sync within a SAFe environment to ensure team objectives aligned with program-level goals.
  • Trained and coached stakeholders and middle management, to embrace and enable Agility
  • Improved transparency and created information radiators. Maintained relevant metrics that help the team see how they are doing
  • Proactively identified, escalated, and removed impediments ranging from technical dependencies to organizational blockers by enabling teams to maintain consistent delivery and high velocity.
  • Supported adoption of Agile engineering practices such as TDD, BDD, pair programming, and continuous integration to enhance delivery standards.
  • Championed a culture of knowledge sharing, innovation, and accountability through workshops, Agile games, and team-building initiatives.
  • Supported distributed and remote teams by adapting Agile practices to ensure inclusivity, engagement, and effective collaboration.
  • Mentored Kanban teams in visualizing workflows, limiting WIP, and streamlining delivery through Lean-Agile best practices.

Scrum Master/Analyst

Mordor Intelligence
11.2019 - 10.2021
  • Facilitated Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives to drive team alignment and continuous improvement.
  • Partnered with Product Owners and stakeholders to define, refine product backlogs, ensuring clarity of user stories and alignment with business goals.
  • Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
  • Developed custom Scrum boards for better task tracking and transparency within the team.
  • Coached and supported cross-functional Scrum teams, promoting self-organization and enhancing team performance across multiple high-value projects.
  • Optimized sprint capacity planning and resource allocation, resulting in improved team velocity and overall delivery efficiency.
  • Identified and addressed impediments proactively, using servant leadership to maintain team focus and minimize delivery risks.
  • Strengthened stakeholder engagement through transparent communication, real-time reporting, and regular feedback loops, increasing satisfaction and alignment.
  • Fostered a collaborative team environment by enhancing communication and Agile maturity, which led to consistent
    improvements in delivery timelines and team morale.
  • Performed in-depth strategic analysis utilizing methodologies such as "PORTER's Five Forces analysis" to understand the bargaining power of key participants (suppliers, consumers, new entrants, substitute products, and competition) in the industry.
  • Performed "Value Chain Analysis" to understand the current activities within the industry and drive strategies for market
    development.

Engineer - Business Operations Excellence

Mylan
08.2017 - 04.2019
  • Led continuous improvement initiatives by analysing production workflows, identifying inefficiencies, and implementing optimized solutions—paralleling Agile retrospectives and process refinements.
  • Collaborated cross-functionally with engineering, quality, and process teams to diagnose root causes and co-create data-driven solutions—mirroring stakeholder engagement and backlog refinement practices.
  • Facilitated problem-solving discussions to address bottlenecks, increase throughput, and maintain quality, closely aligning with impediment removal and team facilitation in Scrum.

Education

PGDM - Business Operations Management

Fanshawe College
London, Canada
05.2001 -

Bachelor of Technology -

RVR&JC College of Engineering
Andhra Pradesh, India
05.2001 -

Skills

Frameworks & Methodologies: Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, TDD, BDD, CI/CD Pipeline, GitHub

Data Reporting Tools : Power BI, MS Office Suite
Agile/Project Management: Jira, Jira Align, Azure DevOps, Confluence, Trello, MS Project, Miro, Slack

Reporting & Metrics: Burn up/Burndown Charts, Velocity Metrics, Cumulative Flow Diagram, Sprint Reports

Collaboration Tools: MS Teams, Slack, Zoom, Google Meet

Certification

Professional Scrum Master (PSM I, Scrum.org)

Core Competencies

  • Agile & Scrum Methodologies | SAFe Framework | Kanban
  • Agile Team Coaching & Facilitation
  • Change Management | Confict Resolution | Team Empowerment
  • Scrum Ceremonies Facilitation (Daily Standups, Sprint Planning, Retrospectives)
  • CI/CD, TDD, BDD practices
  • Project Planning & Risk Mitigation Backlog Grooming & Refinement
  • Jira, Confluence & Agile Project Management Tools
  • Cross-functional Team Facilitation & Servant Leadership
  • Stakeholder Engagement & Collaboration Conflict Resolution & Building High-Performing Teams
  • Continuous Improvement & Agile Metrics (Velocity, Burndown, Cycle Time)
  • Risk & Dependency Management in Agile Delivery
  • Feature Prioritization & Value-driven Delivery
  • Quality Assurance & Definition of Done(DoD)
  • Problem Solving & Impediment Removal
  • Scaled Agile Events (PI Planning, Scrum of Scrums, ART Sync)
  • Lean-Agile Practices (Flow Optimization,
  • WIP Limits, Value Stream Mapping)
  • Agile Transformation & Organizational

Projects

1. Care Sight CDSS - CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM
I worked for a US-based healthcare client to built a Clinical Decision Support System Platform, which is an AI-powered Clinical Decision
Support System built for U.S. hospitals. It integrates with Electronic Health Records and delivers real-time alerts, predictive diagnostics,
and treatment suggestions to assist doctors and nurses in making timely, evidence-based decisions.


2. SentientCX - Customer Intelligence Platform (CIP) – Real Time Behavioral Analytics System
It is a real-time Customer Intelligence Platform designed to capture, process, and analyse customer behaviour across digital
touchpoints. Built using the Scrum framework, the project aimed to empower business stakeholders with actionable insights through
AI-driven sentiment analysis and intuitive visual dashboards.

Timeline

Professional Scrum Master (PSM I, Scrum.org)

03-2025

Scrum Master

US HI-TECH Solutions, INC Corporation
05.2023 - 01.2025

Scrum Master/Analyst

Mordor Intelligence
11.2019 - 10.2021

Engineer - Business Operations Excellence

Mylan
08.2017 - 04.2019

PGDM - Business Operations Management

Fanshawe College
05.2001 -

Bachelor of Technology -

RVR&JC College of Engineering
05.2001 -

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