Yuvaraj Shankar
Senior Project / Program Manager (16+ Years)
Chennai
Summary
With over 16 years of experience in the software industry, I am a passionate and versatile engineering leader who strives to deliver innovative and scalable solutions for complex business problems.
I also provide engineering leadership and program management to diversified teams distributed across the world, ensuring alignment with the product vision and customer expectations.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Senior Project Manager
West Agile Labs (Veltris)
Chennai
04.2022 - Current
- Managing a 50+ member team comprising professionals like Project managers, Solution Architects, Tech Leads etc
- Engineering a large-scale cloud application development using Nodejs, ROR, React, Microservices, Kafka, Redis, SQL Server, MongoDB and integration Tools as well (DellBhoomi)
- Responsible for client retention by maintaining senior level relationships allowing proactive identification of client risks or opportunities and work with technical teams to effectively respond to client needs
- Co-creating, and maintaining medium to large-scale Health care business systems.
- Engineering leadership and program management to diversified teams distributed across the world (USA and Australia).
- Liaison between product owners and teams during the entire development phase and ensure implementation of Agile framework values.
Technical Project Manager
Aspire Systems Pvt. Ltd
Chennai
05.2015 - 04.2022
- Empowered 3 project teams for 6 years in Integration, Banking and other Core Java technical development in Agile environment.
- Served as Technical architect and Project Manager for last 6 years with sound skills in latest technologies (Microservices, Integration platforms, etc.) in various Projects. As a project manager made sure to continuously monitor project plans to account for dynamic targets, staffing changes* and operational specifications.
- With strong Technical experience played key role in most of phases in SDLC.
- Gathered project requirements through interactions, meetings and walkthroughs with potential application users and to develop business requirements documents (BRD), functional requirements documents (FRD) and user mockups.
Technical Project Leader
Aspire System Pvt. Ltd
Chennai
05.2011 - 04.2015
- Lead offshore development team and coordinate with them for development activities.
- Part of the R&D team and responsible for recommending appropriate technologies
- Offshore associate Architect for data migration and integration system.
- Conducted technical audits for various projects.
Education
Master of Computer Applications - Computer Science And Programming
College of Engineering
Chennai, TN 05.2003 - 05.2006
Skills
Agile project management
Accomplishments
- Awarded the Best Project manager for for 4 consecutive years.
- Awarded the Star Innovator award, Awarded Role Star Award for an Technical achievement.
Certification
Sun Certified Java Programmer
Timeline
Senior Project Manager
West Agile Labs (Veltris)
04.2022 - Current
Technical Project Manager
Aspire Systems Pvt. Ltd
05.2015 - 04.2022
Certified Scrum Master
05-2015
Technical Project Leader
Aspire System Pvt. Ltd
05.2011 - 04.2015
Sun Certified Java Programmer
05-2008
Master of Computer Applications - Computer Science And Programming
College of Engineering
05.2003 - 05.2006
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