About me
Aditya Deshmukh
Technical Project/Program management professional with 12+ years of industry experience
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Summary
As a Technical Manager, I:
- research the latest DevOps tools and governance best practices and define the strategies for global teams spread across multiple delivery units.
- drive project execution using the latest planning and development tools and methodologies.
- interact with customers, senior management, technical leaders, and global teams to ensure product development plansare in harmony with strategic goals, realizing quality objectives and schedule commitments.
- worked with multiple international technology teams & customers to ensure their projects are delivered efficiently and with great quality.
Top Skills
Project\Program Management Stakeholder Management Product Management Change & Release Management
Software Development DevOps Strategy CI-CD Version Control - Git SonarQube Java Python React
Experience
AMDOCS
June-2022 to August-2023
Technical Program Manager - DevOps Research (CTOs Office)
- Defined and documented the release management, change management, DevOps strategy & governance for the CTOs office
- Studied the full software development life-cycle (SDLC) of projects & aligned best practices with Lean-Agile, SAFe industry standards
- Drove the process change across the entire organization
- Defined key performance indicators (KPIs) applicable to 50+ projects (monoliths and micro-service based) to measure the delivery cycle success which were part of the organizations monthly, quarterly and yearly business reviews
- Audited the entire release cycle of multiple projects to identify gaps & recommended changes to improve performance
- Regularly apprised project & unit performance metrics to their leaders (Delivery leads, development leads etc.) & highlighted high attention topics
- Engaged multiple stakeholders e.g Delivery Managers, Project Managers, Development leads, SMEs, Sr. Management & teams across multiple locations and ensured adoption, implementation of best practices and tools
- Researched common Version control (Perforce, Git, Bitbucket), CI-CD (Jenkins), code metrics (SonarQube) & Application lifecycle management (Jira) tools in terms of their use for designing best practices & their REST APIs in terms of data collection.
- Designed the entire dashboard User Experience in terms of visual design, ease of setup and use, ETLs, vizualization & reporting
- Provided technical and design leadership to a team of 8 members that built a dashboard using Python (Django) as a Product Owner and Scrum Master performing requirement analysis
- Built a documentation site from scratch (development, technical writing) to effectively communicate best practices and dashboard use along with a Generative AI chat-bot to resolve stakeholder queries faster
- Promoted and instilled a culture of continuous improvement and efficiency to the software/business processes through extensive data analysis and powerful visualizations using Metabase, Power BI and SQL.
DASSAULT SYSTEMES
May-2018 to June-2022
Technical Project Manager - Java, C++, Javascript
- Assembled project plans, assigned teamwork tasks, identified resource needs and escalated any issues appropriately
- Managed project end to end, ensured adherence to delivery processes to deliver consistent high quality end results
- Recognized and mitigated risk in the agreed delivery to the customer, managed and communicated any concerns to minimize impact
- Identified delivery process improvements and shared with team members and leadership to drive continuous improvement across the Delivery Organization
- Lead and facilitated all Scrum Agile ceremonies like backlog grooming, Sprint reviews and retrospectives and daily stand ups as a Scrum Master
- Led a team of 9 people working on C++, Java, JavaScript based applications on both OnPremise & AWS Cloud
- Designed & delivered enhancements pivotal to the entire product experience consistently
- Defined best practices for the team and ensured compliance with effective code reviews
- Collaborated with product management, architects, quality assurance, automation, support, operations, and clients to provide a seamless customer experience which was recognized by the "Collaborator" award at the organizational level
- Delivered key cloud execution functionality for Physics simulations on time. Received the "Genius" award in 2020 for this effort
- Implemented DevOps concepts like CI/CD using Jenkins and helped setup and administer JIRA and Confluence for application life-cycle management and documentation
- Conceptualized and developed an internal tool to perform UX heuristic analysis of user interface
- Mentored and coached multiple individuals for the team and the organization and acted as an SME
- Fostered an environment that promotes continuous learning within the team
- Demonstrated strong technical proficiency web applications, quality assurance, product release & support requirements
- Effectively communicated team performance, development plans, KPIs, and proof of concepts to management in monthly scrum meetings
August-2014 to May-2018
Senior Software Engineer
- Delivered features on Windows and Linux OS with complete ownership and high quality of a key Physics simulation product for 3 years
- Leveraged strong technical knowledge of C++, Java to deliver enhancements, bug fixes, hot fixes with high quality in both OnPremise and AWS based cloud environments
- Drove customer retention of the product by delivering hotfixes and long-term support features.
- Conceptualized and built proof of concepts in collaboration with the marketing team.
- Created a tool that automated C++ code generation using Python to accelerate the development of a feature. As a result, developers delivered tasks in days instead of weeks.
- Received the "Kudos" award for successfully migrating the native app components (UI, webservices) to the cloud with full ownership.
- Served as the technical focal for cloud-related development.
July-2011 to August-2014
Software Engineer
- Enhanced a variety Physics simulation products by implementing features and fixing defects.
- Implemented tests for the test automation suite that improved code coverage by 30%.
- Conceptualized and built an internal tool that simplified feature creation, and improved developer productivity by 30%.
- Delivered features with 100% on-time record.