Hi, I’m
SivaKumar Avadhanam
Bengaluru
Summary
Engineering leader with 18+ years elevating technical excellence across global tech organizations. Expert in driving DevEx strategy, engineering standards, scalable architecture, and CI/CD maturity. Proven track record in accelerating engineering velocity, reducing build/test cycles, and optimizing automation & tooling. Adept at building KPI-driven dashboards, engineering governance, and partnering with Principal Engineers, Enterprise Architects, and Platform teams to foster cloud-native quality and modern SDLC best practices. Portfolio: https://avadhshiva.github.io/Portfolio/
Customer-oriented General Manager with 15 years of experience focused on increasing revenues and expanding margin. Adaptive and deadline-oriented consistently executes and completes multiple projects in high-stress environments. Meticulous leader and strategic planner with comprehensive managerial acumen, offering vision and motivational acumen.
Overview
17
years of professional experience
3
Certification
Work History
Landmark Group
General Manager
08.2023 - Current
Job overview
- Engineering Excellence & Architecture: Defined and enforced global testing standards, coding quality gates, and architecture-aligned test frameworks. Partnered with Principal Engineers and Enterprise Architects to drive consistent patterns and influence technical decisions for automation, CI/CD, and infrastructure.
- Developer Productivity & DevEx: Spearheaded DevEx initiatives that slashed regression cycles by 60% and improved engineer onboarding. Enhanced developer workflow by optimizing Azure DevOps pipelines, build times, and test coverage. Introduced AI-assisted testing and coding accelerators to boost productivity.
- Tooling, Process & Governance: Owned the strategic roadmap for engineering tooling, consolidating platforms (ADO, Jira, Jenkins) and scaling automation. Collaborated with Platform/DevOps to advance observability and IaC. Defined KPIs and built dashboards for engineering velocity, quality, and delivery timelines.
- Leadership & Influence: Mentored 25+ engineers on best practices and modern frameworks. Drove cross-functional governance with Product and Release Management to ensure aligned priorities. Designed upskilling programs on cloud-native testing and AI-driven engineering.
- Key Achievements:
- Improved deployment quality by 50% using AI-led release validation.
- Reduced escaped defects by 30% via enhanced quality gates and standards.
- Standardized engineering KPIs and dashboards, increasing executive visibility and team alignment.
Landmark Group
Deputy General Manager
10.2019 - 08.2023
Job overview
- Built a Test Center of Excellence (TCoE) focused on engineering standards, tooling, productivity, and automation optimization.
- Drove architecture-aligned testing standards, enabling engineering-wide consistency in API testing, microservices validation, and automation frameworks.
- Collaborated with Platform/DevOps teams to strengthen CI/CD automation, environment provisioning, monitoring, and release governance.
- Implemented dashboards for test automation coverage, cycle times, defect leakage, velocity, and engineering productivity.
- Led global teams, partnered with Product and Engineering leadership, and enforced technical delivery alignment.
Covansense Digital
QA Technical Lead
07.2017 - 12.2018
Job overview
- Built scalable automation frameworks aligned with architectural patterns.
- Improved test reliability and developer feedback loops by 50%.
- Partnered with engineering leaders to ensure quality, observability, and CI/CD readiness.
- Earlier Roles | Applabs | Capgemini | Photon Infotech | Quess Corp (Between 2006 - 2017)
- Delivered enterprise QA strategy, automation enablement, environment governance, and cloud-ready test frameworks.
- Strengthened engineering processes, quality governance, release readiness, and architecture-aligned testing.
Education
Sri Krishna Devaraya UniversityAnantapur
Bachelors from Electronics (with Maths and Physics)
University Overview
GPA: 7.7
Sri Venkateswara UniversityTirupati
Masters from Computer Applications
University Overview
GPA: 6.5
Skills
- DevEx & Developer Tools: Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence, ADO
- CI/CD: Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions
- Cloud & Infra: AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes
- Observability & Dashboards: Grafana, New Relic, AppDynamics
- Automation: Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, API Automation (RestAssured, Postman)
- AI for Engineering: GitHub Copilot, GPT-based automation, AI test generation (Test Rigor, Test Craft)
- Architecture & Standards: SDLC Governance, Quality Gates, Risk Controls
- Staff training/development
- Organizational development
- Change implementation
- Proficient in Test Automation, Release Management, AI/LLM Adoption
- Policy/program development
- Service quality improvement
- Consistently meet goals
- Leadership
Accomplishments
- Delivered global programs with 98% on-time completion.
- Improved engineering efficiency through automation and process enhancement.
- Recognized with Deliver Excellence, Bugbash, and Long Service awards.
Certification
- Generative AI Overview for Project Managers (PMI – 2025)
- Configure JIRA Boards (PMI – 2025)
- Building Agentic AI Systems (LinkedIn Learning - Oct 2025)
- Exposure to OKR frameworks, financial systems QA
- Agile Scrum Master (CSM - In Progress)
- ITIL Foundation (Awareness)
Languages
English
Advanced (C1)
Telugu
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Hindi
Advanced (C1)
Timeline
General Manager
Landmark Group
08.2023 - Current
Deputy General Manager
Landmark Group
10.2019 - 08.2023
QA Technical Lead
Covansense Digital
07.2017 - 12.2018
Sri Venkateswara University
Masters from Computer Applications
Sri Krishna Devaraya University
Bachelors from Electronics (with Maths and Physics)