Aravind Babu

Senior Scrum Master | Agile Delivery

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Reported to the delivery head while steering cross-functional agile operations and program execution for enterprise cloud migration initiatives. Directed agile ceremonies, release planning, and structural dependency mapping across concurrent engineering squads.

• •Directed Scrum ceremonies, PI Planning, and Scrum of Scrums across 2 to 3 concurrent squads for a 168-application SAP-to-GCP migration program, sustaining 95%+ on-time milestone delivery over 4 years.
• •Elevated sprint predictability from 68% to 92% and grew team velocity by 30 points across 8 consecutive sprints by restructuring backlog refinement cadences, sharpening user story definitions, and introducing rolling capacity planning.
• •Compressed cycle time from 9 to 5 days, achieving a 44% reduction through structured impediment removal, risk escalation protocols, and tightened DevOps and CI/CD handoff coordination, advancing release readiness by 3 weeks per quarter.
• •Synchronized delivery across engineering, product, and platform squads via weekly Scrum of Scrums and dependency mapping in Jira, resolving 12+ cross-team blockers per sprint and preventing milestone slippage on 8 major program increments.
• •Designed and maintained KPI dashboards in Jira and Confluence tracking velocity, burndown, cycle time, and throughput, reducing leadership reporting effort by 40% while enabling data-driven sprint adjustments within 24 hours of anomaly detection.

Steered sprint execution across 2 teams, aligning delivery schedules with quarterly business milestones. Partnered with product owners on backlog organization and mentored staff on scrum practices.

• •Facilitated sprint ceremonies across a 9-month engagement to maintain schedule alignment with quarterly business milestones.
• •Partnered with product owners to groom a 200-item backlog and refine user stories with criteria, enabling a 25% increase in sprint throughput within 3 sprints.
• •Introduced Kanban boards in Jira to visualize workflows and reduce work-in-progress limits, cutting unplanned work by 20%.

Guided release planning and acceptance testing cycles, coordinating across product owners, developers, and quality assurance teams to prepare backlogs and maintain delivery flow across parallel work streams.

• •Coordinated user acceptance testing cycles, release planning activities, and backlog alignment sessions with product owners and business stakeholders to secure sprint readiness for 15 product increments.
• •Structured requirement gathering, user story authoring, and backlog organization with development and quality assurance teams, reducing mid-sprint scope changes by 30percent.
• •Identified and tracked risks, dependencies, and impediments across Agile workflows to enable timely escalation and resolution across 6 concurrent work streams.

Administered GCP infrastructure for a multi-tier application environment, managing Compute Instances, Managed Instance Groups, Load Balancers, Cloud Storage Buckets, VPC Networks, IAM roles, and Firewall rules.

• •Implemented automated backup strategies for web and database servers via Snapshots.
• •Achieved zero data-loss across 12 months of operations and met RPO targets for 3 client environments.

• •Analyzed system performance data and incident logs to produce structured reports, guiding capacity planning activities.
• •Reduced recurring incidents by 22% over 6 months through data-driven evaluation of technical metrics.

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