Vishnuvardhan Raju Uppalapati
Hyderabad,TG
Summary
Agile Delivery Leader experienced in driving cross-functional engineering and product teams to deliver large-scale digital products. Managed platforms processing over 511M notifications daily, ensuring delivery within scope, budget, and timeline while enhancing Agile maturity across teams. Focused on aligning business goals with technology needs through effective stakeholder communication and robust project management.
Overview
15
15
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