Vishnuvardhan Raju Uppalapati
Hyderabad,TG
Summary
Most Scrum Masters run ceremonies. I run delivery — and the difference shows up in whether the platform stays up, the roadmap stays on track, and the business stops asking "where are we?"
Over the past 13+ years, I've been the person companies bring in when delivery is unpredictable, stakeholders are misaligned, or a growing platform is starting to outrun its process. I don't just facilitate Scrum — I diagnose where delivery is breaking down and fix the system, not just the symptom.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Agile Delivery Manager / Operations Manager
Way2News
11.2024 - Current
- Facilitated end-to-end Agile delivery and Scrum ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives, for cross-functional offshore engineering team, coaching members on Scrum principles to enhance sprint discipline with minimal oversight.
- Partner closely with Product Owners to refine and prioritize the backlog, converting business intent into actionable, well-groomed Jira stories that maintain continuous release momentum.
- Configured and managed Jira boards to track sprint progress and delivery performance metrics, resolving technical dependencies and team impediments proactively.
- Coordinated release cycles that improved user engagement, contributing to a rapid DAU growth to 22K within a 3-month period.
Scrum Master / Product Operations Manager (Senior Scrum master Equivalent)
Truepush
02.2022 - 11.2024
- Led and coached a 15-member cross-functional Agile team supporting a platform delivering 511M+ notifications daily, aligning roadmap, scope, and milestones across distributed contributors.
- Served as bridge between business stakeholders and technology teams, facilitating structured review sessions with Subject Matter Experts and transforming their feedback into detailed Jira stories.
- Oversaw end-to-end risks, cross-team dependencies, and milestones across multiple delivery teams, ensuring project execution adhered to scope, budget, and timeline.
- Monitored Agile KPIs, cycle times, and velocity metrics using Jira dashboards, eliminating process bottlenecks and providing stakeholders with real-time visibility into delivery health.
Agile Project Lead / Operations Manager
Way2SMS
01.2017 - 01.2022
- Coordinated engineering, QA, and business teams to align technical execution with organizational roadmaps, integrating conflicting priorities into a unified delivery plan.
- Oversaw delivery governance and release management, embedding risk and control checkpoints into daily SDLC processes to actively monitor and mitigate delivery risks.
- Coordinated engineering, QA, and business teams to align technical execution with strategic organizational roadmaps, resolving conflicting priorities into a single shared delivery plan.
Manager – Delivery & Operations
Way2Online
01.2012 - 01.2017
- Established delivery governance frameworks and risk-escalation processes for early-stage technology teams, providing a foundation later scaled in subsequent roles.
- Coordinated cross-team timelines and managed technical dependencies, reducing delivery delays across parallel projects.
- Fostered communication channels between engineering teams and non-technical stakeholders, enhancing transparency and project alignment.
Education
B.Tech - Electrical & Electronics Engineering
JNTU Anantapur
01-2010
Skills
- Agile Frameworks: Scrum
- Kanban
- Sprint ceremonies
- Daily Stand-ups
- Sprint Reviews
- Retrospectives
- Backlog Refinement
- Release Planning
- Ready definition
- Done definition
- Agile KPIs
- Velocity Tracking
- Burndown Charts
- Agile Management: Jira, Rally, Miro
- Collaboration tools
- Leadership: Offshore-Onshore Team Leadership
- Agile Coaching
- Project Collaboration
- Data Analysis
Certification
Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
- 13+ Years of Leadership: scaling Agile delivery workflows across fast-paced, high-availability technology organizations, including fully offshore delivery structures.
- Scale & High Availability: direct experience supporting enterprise-grade platforms processing 511M+ notifications daily at internet scale.
- Team Growth: managed and coached multi-disciplinary, cross-functional teams of up to 15 members, improving their Agile maturity.
- Stakeholder & Risk Alignment: proven track record of aligning technical delivery metrics with business priorities and embedding risk-and-control discipline into daily execution.
Timeline
Agile Delivery Manager / Operations Manager
Way2News
11.2024 - Current
Scrum Master / Product Operations Manager (Senior Scrum master Equivalent)
Truepush
02.2022 - 11.2024
Agile Project Lead / Operations Manager
Way2SMS
01.2017 - 01.2022
Manager – Delivery & Operations
Way2Online
01.2012 - 01.2017
B.Tech - Electrical & Electronics Engineering
JNTU Anantapur