THYAGARAJAN KUMAR

• Product Owner for AEM‑based digital platforms, owning product vision, roadmap, and prioritized backlog aligned to client business goals.
• Aligned Adobe Experience Cloud capabilities (AEM, Analytics, personalization integrations) with client digital transformation objectives, enhancing strategic execution.
• Led migration from AEM Managed Services to AEM as a Cloud Service, ensuring technical modernization aligned with delivery timelines.
• Partnered with Marketing, UX, Business, and Architecture teams to translate experience requirements into clear user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Owned backlog refinement, sprint planning, and release readiness across multiple agile pods.
• Delivered executive-level status reports, managed risks, and updated senior client and Cognizant leadership on value realization.

Led agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, and reviews, ensuring alignment across multiple AEM product streams.

• Owned end-to-end product lifecycle for AEM-based digital platforms, defining roadmaps and prioritizing backlogs to align with business goals.
• Collaborated with marketing, UX, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into actionable user stories, enhancing product alignment with customer needs.
• Supported AEM as a cloud service migration, aligning technical modernization with business objectives.
• Partnered with architects and developers to balance performance, feature delivery, and technical debt, ensuring sustainable product growth.
• Enabled content authoring improvements, accelerating go-to-market for digital initiatives by streamlining workflows.

• Managed migration of applications from AEM managed service to AEM as cloud service, ensuring seamless transition and minimal disruption.
• Led Adobe Experience Manager platform, supporting all authoring and technical users.
• Executed IT projects using agile and lean methodologies to enhance efficiency.
• Facilitated communication among technical teams, business owners, and designers to ensure project alignment and timely delivery.
• Directed pre-sales and sales initiatives for enterprise solutions, enhancing client engagement and supporting revenue growth.
• Oversaw project milestones, risks, and issues, ensuring adherence to SDLC processes for on-time project delivery.
• Developed and maintained project documentation, tracking progress and reporting on ROI.
• Provided leadership to cross-division teams, achieving long-term organizational goals.

• Led cloud migration project, transitioning on-prem systems to Azure cloud to enhance scalability and availability
• Configured and maintained CI/CD pipelines, integrated various DevOps tools, and automated release processes.
• Managed CM/Release Engineering services, deploying production packages and developing configuration management and release plans to ensure seamless software delivery.
• Streamlined build and deployment processes in TFS 2015, minimizing manual intervention and accelerating release cycles for faster product iterations.

• Spearheaded implementation of software-defined infrastructure model for release automation and continuous delivery pipelines, enhancing deployment efficiency.
• Facilitated continuous delivery and integration for digital programs using Microsoft ALM stack, improving collaboration among development teams.
• Collaborated with clients to identify business needs and propose solutions.
• Analyzed data to support strategic decision-making and improve project outcomes.
• Facilitated workshops to gather requirements and enhance stakeholder engagement.

• Developed product features and executed system integration and acceptance testing for EAE customers, enhancing product reliability.
• Built and integrated products using PERL, VB Script, and batch files.
• Conducted testing and developed Global Customer Acceptance releases, streamlining documentation and improving clarity.
• Delivered hot patches and resolved critical issues for AB Suite customers, ensuring system stability.