Gokulnath Rajukutty
Enterprise Delivery & Transformation Leader | GenAI Enablement & AI-Enabled Delivery | Program & Portfolio Leadership | SPC · ICP-ENT · Marshall Goldsmith SCC · ISO 42001 LA
Bengaluru
19+ years of work experience
Oct 20241 y 11 moPresent
India
Enterprise Agile Coach for Wesco's B2B supply chain and logistics business. Member of the enterprise AI Council; authored the enterprise AI tooling playbook covering GitHub Copilot, Atlassian Rovo, and Miro AI, including governance guardrails and adoption measures.
• Coordinate enterprise release readiness across the digital delivery portfolio, owning cross-business-unit dependency mapping, scope confirmation, and go/no-go alignment for every release cycle.
• Partner with senior and C-suite leadership to sequence transformation roadmaps against the enterprise release calendar, resolving cross-functional and platform-level dependencies ahead of each release.
• Built the in-house delivery capability for Wesco's Engagement Center, transitioning portfolio scope from contract partners to permanent squads while protecting release cadence across business units.
• Submitted two enterprise AI use cases now being converted into projects: one applying visual recognition to part identification for mobile field commerce, the other automating extraction of vendor catalog and contract attributes.
• Coach leaders and executives through Agile and AI-enabled transformation, applying Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coaching to drive measurable, sustained behaviour change.
• Champion responsible AI adoption, helping teams use AI to augment rather than replace judgment in planning, estimation, and quality.
• Partner with enterprise portfolios on Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe practices, contributing to overall transformation strategy.
• Track emerging Agile and AI developments including AI-assisted backlog refinement, forecasting, and retrospectives, and assess impact with senior management.
• Mentor coaches, Scrum Masters, and practitioners on Agile, AI tooling, and Stakeholder Centered Coaching techniques.
• Teach Lean, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and AI-augmented delivery principles, instilling a culture of measurement and continuous improvement.
Feb 20213 yrs 9 mosOct 2024
Melbourne, VIC
Wipro Digital is an innovation-led, digital transformation partner building today's digital challenges. Part of Wipro's STC team, working as Digital Transformation Lead. Led a matrixed team of coaches driving full-scale Agile transformation across the organization's IT and Business functions, spanning PODs, Platforms, and Value Streams.
• Ensure engagements are successful and efficiently evolve the Agile/ Design Thinking transformation and keep it running at pace with the right strategy, governance, process, frameworks, metrics
• Responsible for consistently expanding organizations Agile footprint awhile maturing it at the same time
• Define the transformation agenda, lead through a team to implement the transformation strategy for organizations to effectively drive performance and deliver business results
• Drive continuous improvement and culture of high performance through strategic programs, advocating for and effecting behavioral and process change across the organization by influencing decision makers and inspiring and motivating others to adopt new ways of working
• Enhance core structures, governance, and ways of working from an end-to-end perspective working across PODs, Platforms, Value Streams and leadership whilst not disrupting in flight deliveries
• Developing key hypotheses for interventions for addressing issues and continuous improvement
• Support the RTEs and Agile coaches to implement quarterly Program Increment planning events, defining enhancements for efficiency and increased delivery confidence
• Optimize flow of value through the PODs; define and implement data analytics (i.e., Cycle Time and other metrics) for quantification, assessing and driving improvements to DevOps and release and CI/CD pipelines.
• Coach POD leads on Agile delivery good practices; leading regular retrospectives and continuous improvement activities to create high performing PODs/ Platforms/ Value Streams focused on customer centricity and value
May 20173 yrs 9 mosJan 2021
Bengaluru
LTI is a global technology consulting and digital solutions company. Part of NWoW team working as an Enterprise Agile Coach.
• Enterprise Agile Coach for LTIMindtree, leading SAFe, LeSS, Scrum, XP, and Kanban adoption across program-level PODs, and shaping teams toward T-shaped capability and Value Stream delivery models.
• I help project teams in Agile adoption and transformation journey (SAFe, LeSS, Scrum, XP & Kanban)
• As a Design Thinking coach help team in Creative, Holistic, Human Centered and Context Driven Problem Solving process
• Training and educating teams on Agile process (SAFe, Scrum, Kanban etc.)
• Ensuring/facilitating Agile/ Scaled Agile ceremonies including estimations, maintaining well-organized and prioritized product backlog/ Features/ EPICs
• Program review meetings (system demo), SoS, Inspect & Adapt, PI planning adhering to PI goals
• Sprint review meetings (demo), sprint retrospectives and sprint closure adhering to DoD & story mapping
• Mentoring team(s) to progressively move towards DevOps, Test Automation and contribute to ongoing process improvement
• Mentoring & Coaching the Agile teams to deliver the maximum business value that is achievable through the Agile PODs.
Jul 20151 yr 11 mosMay 2017
Bengaluru Area, India
Tesco HSC is the extended headquarters for Tesco. Part of the Capability team working as an Agile Coach & managing the Competency Development Management team.Some of the critical functions and roles that I have played is as below:
• As an Agile Coach, I help project teams in Agile adoption and transformation journey (Scrum, XP & Kanban)
- Training and educating teams on Agile process (Scrum, Kanban & VFQ)
- Help team measure the lead time, deployment cadence and cycle time to optimise the flow
- Lead scrum teams for product release(s) and ensuring agile development best practices are implemented
- Ensuring/facilitating SCRUM ceremonies including estimations, maintaining well-organized and prioritized product backlog/EPICs
- Sprint review meetings (demo), sprint retrospectives and sprint closure adhering to definition of done
- Mentoring Scrum team(s) to progressively become better Scrum Team(s) and contribute to ongoing process improvement
• Managing the CDM team which includes Competency planning & execution, Vendor engagement and support project teams in competency building initiatives
Dec 20131 yr 7 mosJun 2015
Bengaluru Area, India
Tesco HSC is the extended headquarters for Tesco. The IT Quality team is part of the PMO function in Tesco Technology. The major functions of the team are Process definition and managing APTT, Consulting on Processes and Project management aspects & tools. Some of the critical functions and roles that I have played is as below:
• Managed team during Sr. Manager's absence
• Ensuring/facilitating SCRUM ceremonies including estimations, maintaining well-organized and prioritized product backlog/EPICs
• Sprint review meetings (demo), sprint retrospectives and sprint closure adhering to definition of done
• Mentoring Scrum team(s) to progressively become better Scrum Team(s) and contribute to ongoing process improvement
• Product Owner for defining Agile metrics in SMARTT (Metric reporting tool) & for communications related to team
• Steering Wheel review with management based on People, Customer, Operations, Service & Community Quadrants
• Consultant Lead for more than 25 projects varying in the team size of 10 to 250
• Responsible for working with the software development team for process compliance & continuous improvements
• Leading SEPG team and ensuring ways of working is defined and adopted by the Organization
• Leading Internal Audit team to ensure planning, execution and monitoring of audit process in the Organization
• Responsible for CI/CD assessments to ensure maturity against advocated practices & performance against vision for Releases
Oct 20121 yr 2 mosNov 2013
Bengaluru Area, India
Tesco HSC is the extended headquarters for Tesco. The IT Quality team is part of the PMO function in Tesco Technology. The major functions of the team are Process definition and managing APTT, Consulting on Processes and Project management aspects & tools. Some of the critical functions and roles that I have played is as below:
• Consultant Lead for more than 25 projects varying in the team size of 10 to 250 (Agile only projects)
• Responsible for working with the software development team for process compliance & continuous improvements
• Leading SEPG team and ensuring ways of working is defined and adopted by the Organization
• Leading Internal Audit team to ensure planning, execution and monitoring of audit process in the Organization
Apr 20127 mosOct 2012
Led Scrum adoption and quality systems for a design-led mobile/app engineering studio; established ISO 9001:2008 QMS and an Information Security Management System (CIA).
Feb 20102 y 2 moApr 2012
Bangalore
Jul 20074 y 9 moApr 2012
Bangalore
Gokulnath’s AI Stack
Education
MS, Quality Management
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
20082 yrs2010
B.E, Mechanical Engineering
Bharathiar University
20004 yrs2004
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