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Chetan VR

AI Enabled Certified Release Train Engineer, SAFe Agilist.

Greater Bengaluru Area

12+ years of work experience

Tenant Inc.
Nov 20241 yr 11 mosPresent

Bengaluru

• Lead ART ceremonies: PI Planning, ART Sync, PO Sync, System Demos, and Inspect & Adapt for 7–10 Agile teams. • Drive cross-functional dependency management, impediment escalation, and risk management via Scrum of Scrums. • Coach Scrum Masters, Product Owners, architects, and business stakeholders on SAFe practices and Agile mindset. • Drive teams' PI planning readiness: requirements understanding, capacity planning, risk/dependency identification. • Expert in facilitation, alignment, and stakeholder management across distributed teams. • Establish flow metrics (lead time, throughput, WIP) to optimize value delivery at ART level. • Prepare and present ART-level metrics to stakeholders; Drive data-informed continuous improvement. • Facilitate release readiness, execution, and communication to all relevant stakeholders. • Identifying bottlenecks in delivery flow and lead resolution through collaboration
HID Global
Feb 20222 yrs 5 mosJun 2024

Bengaluru

• Drove agile teams across multiple pillars to deliver business value, managing cross-team dependencies and roadmap alignment. • Facilitated scaled events: PI Planning, ART Sync, System Demos, Inspect & Adapt workshops, and Kaizen events. • Coached agile teams, Scrum Masters, architects, and product/business owners on SAFe and scaled practices. • Fostered Communities of Practice and adoption of Built-in Quality engineering practices. • Optimized value flow by establishing flow systems and measurement frameworks. • Prepared ART-level metrics dashboards to drive continuous improvement and leadership visibility. • Expert in facilitation, alignment, and stakeholder management across distributed teams.
Wells Fargo
Feb 20211 yr 1 moFeb 2022

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Scrum Master role
CGI
May 20182 yrs 10 mosFeb 2021

Bangalore

 RTE for Agile release train with 10 teams, 100-120 team members.  Established and communicated the annual calendars for Iterations and Program Increments  In-depth understanding of the practices and principles of Agile, Scrum & SAFe framework.  Acted as an agile champion across the program training all team members about Agile, Scrum & SAFe framework.  Facilitated Pre- PI (Program Increment) planning meetings to drive readiness of ART for the PI planning event.  Manage and facilitate Program Increment planning event  Facilitating and driving ART synchronization ceremonies such as System Demo and PO Council, Scrum of scrum meetings.  Escalating, tracking, resolving impediments and dependencies between teams  Managing risk, helping to ensure value delivery and driving relentless improvement  Driving Agile release train (ART), and project planning, collaboration and coordination  Creating visibility into Agile release train status through Agile reports and Metrics  Driving relentless improvement via Retrospectives, Innovation Sprint, Inspect and Adapt workshops and Kaizen Events.  Fostering Communities of Practice and the use of engineering and Built-In Quality practices  Planning and managing all release activities  Serve as an escalation point for impediment removal for scrum teams  Understanding of fundamentals of DevOps, Continuous Delivery & Test Drive Development (TDD)
Aconex
Dec 20134 yrs 6 mosMay 2018

Bangalore

I worked here as quality assurance engineer as well as scrum master.  Ensuring development team adheres to scrum practices.  Facilitating Daily Scrum, sprint planning session, Sprint review and retrospective meetings.  Helping product owner prioritize the product backlog items to maximize the product value.  Protecting the team from external factors and guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel.  Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency.  Introducing changes in process, bringing good engineering practices and tools to deliver faster with higher quality.  Facilitating all type of discussions, decision making, and conflict resolution.  Designing, Reviewing & executing test cases based on business requirements  Performing Regression, Functional, integration, system and UAT tests.  Logging and managing defects through defect management system.

Chetan’s AI Stack

claude
claude
openai
openai
ChatGPT
ChatGPT
Fireflies.ai
Fireflies.ai
Otter.ai
Otter.ai
Wispr Flow
Wispr Flow

Education

Visvesvaraya Technological University

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering

Visvesvaraya Technological University

20034 yrs2007

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Headline

AI Enabled Certified Release Train Engineer, SAFe Agilist.

About

A Certified Release train engineer (RTE), SAFe agilist, SAFe practitioner, Scrum Master(CSM) with 16.5 years of experience managing and optimizing the value through agile release train (ART).

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

claude

openai

ChatGPT

Fireflies.ai

Otter.ai

Wispr Flow

Work experience

Release Train Engineer ( RTE) at Tenant Inc., Nov 2024 - Present · 1 yr 11 mos, Bengaluru, • Lead ART ceremonies: PI Planning, ART Sync, PO Sync, System Demos, and Inspect & Adapt for 7–10 Agile teams. • Drive cross-functional dependency management, impediment escalation, and risk management via Scrum of Scrums. • Coach Scrum Masters, Product Owners, architects, and business stakeholders on SAFe practices and Agile mindset. • Drive teams' PI planning readiness: requirements understanding, capacity planning, risk/dependency identification. • Expert in facilitation, alignment, and stakeholder management across distributed teams. • Establish flow metrics (lead time, throughput, WIP) to optimize value delivery at ART level. • Prepare and present ART-level metrics to stakeholders; Drive data-informed continuous improvement. • Facilitate release readiness, execution, and communication to all relevant stakeholders. • Identifying bottlenecks in delivery flow and lead resolution through collaboration

Release Train Engineer at HID Global, Feb 2022 - Jun 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, • Drove agile teams across multiple pillars to deliver business value, managing cross-team dependencies and roadmap alignment. • Facilitated scaled events: PI Planning, ART Sync, System Demos, Inspect & Adapt workshops, and Kaizen events. • Coached agile teams, Scrum Masters, architects, and product/business owners on SAFe and scaled practices. • Fostered Communities of Practice and adoption of Built-in Quality engineering practices. • Optimized value flow by establishing flow systems and measurement frameworks. • Prepared ART-level metrics dashboards to drive continuous improvement and leadership visibility. • Expert in facilitation, alignment, and stakeholder management across distributed teams.

Senior Scrum Master at Wells Fargo, Feb 2021 - Feb 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Senior Scrum Master role

Lead Analyst at CGI, May 2018 - Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 10 mos, Bangalore,  RTE for Agile release train with 10 teams, 100-120 team members.  Established and communicated the annual calendars for Iterations and Program Increments  In-depth understanding of the practices and principles of Agile, Scrum & SAFe framework.  Acted as an agile champion across the program training all team members about Agile, Scrum & SAFe framework.  Facilitated Pre- PI (Program Increment) planning meetings to drive readiness of ART for the PI planning event.  Manage and facilitate Program Increment planning event  Facilitating and driving ART synchronization ceremonies such as System Demo and PO Council, Scrum of scrum meetings.  Escalating, tracking, resolving impediments and dependencies between teams  Managing risk, helping to ensure value delivery and driving relentless improvement  Driving Agile release train (ART), and project planning, collaboration and coordination  Creating visibility into Agile release train status through Agile reports and Metrics  Driving relentless improvement via Retrospectives, Innovation Sprint, Inspect and Adapt workshops and Kaizen Events.  Fostering Communities of Practice and the use of engineering and Built-In Quality practices  Planning and managing all release activities  Serve as an escalation point for impediment removal for scrum teams  Understanding of fundamentals of DevOps, Continuous Delivery & Test Drive Development (TDD)

Quality Assurance Engineer at Aconex, Dec 2013 - May 2018 · 4 yrs 6 mos, Bangalore, I worked here as quality assurance engineer as well as scrum master.  Ensuring development team adheres to scrum practices.  Facilitating Daily Scrum, sprint planning session, Sprint review and retrospective meetings.  Helping product owner prioritize the product backlog items to maximize the product value.  Protecting the team from external factors and guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel.  Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency.  Introducing changes in process, bringing good engineering practices and tools to deliver faster with higher quality.  Facilitating all type of discussions, decision making, and conflict resolution.  Designing, Reviewing & executing test cases based on business requirements  Performing Regression, Functional, integration, system and UAT tests.  Logging and managing defects through defect management system.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering, Visvesvaraya Technological University