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Shobhit Varshney

TPM @ Grab

Bengaluru

12+ years of work experience

Grab
Aug 20242 y 1 moPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

CRED
Nov 20212 yrs 10 mosAug 2024

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Freecharge
Apr 20218 mosNov 2021

Gurugram, Haryana, India

Freecharge
Dec 20191 yr 4 mosMar 2021

Gurugram, Haryana, India

UnitedHealth Group
Sep 20181 yr 4 mosDec 2019

Noida, India

✔ Monitor, review and prioritize the "Wave" plans with the objective to stay on time. ✔ Reports status and receives feedback from Program managers, Cross-App PMs, and RTEs. ✔ Collaborates with Managers, Scrum Masters, and RTEs to resolve issues within the team or wave. ✔ Manage scope, schedule, sprint planning, risks, and budget for Scrum Teams. ✔ Collaborate and Empower collective ownership in the team. ✔ Remove barriers and impediments that are preventing the team from completing work. ✔ Ensure that the team follows the Scrum process and pursues continuous innovation in their practices. ✔Owner of capturing agile project metrics and reporting.
Aon
Feb 20171 yr 4 mosMay 2018

Gurgaon, India

✔ Lead daily stand-ups and scrum ceremonies for two scrum teams. Work with product owners to groom the backlog and plan sprints. Report at daily Scrum of Scrum meetings. Track burn down, issues and progress in JIRA. Work with component teams to resolve issues. ✔ Enforced Kanban principles as a Scrum Master that resulted in reduction of Cycle time thus increasing team's throughput in less than 8 weeks. ✔ Successfully migrated Phoenix projects from Waterfall to Scrum. ✔ Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings. ✔ Taught the team to create clear and concise epics/stories/tasks. ✔ Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility. ✔ Facilitated Scrum of Scrum for offshore teams in India. ✔ Evangelized the benefits of Scrum to ensure its smooth adoption. ✔ Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices reducing development time by 35%.
Wipro
Apr 20142 y 10 moFeb 2017

Pune

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Education

Sikkim Manipal University - Distance Education

Master of Business Administration - MBA, Project Management

Sikkim Manipal University - Distance Education

20133 yrs2016
Meerut Institute of Engineering and Technology(MIET)

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science

Meerut Institute of Engineering and Technology(MIET)

20103 yrs2013

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Headline

TPM @ Grab

About

My focus as Technical Program Manager centers around enhancing product and technical requirements to streamline project execution and amplify customer value. Collaboration with cross-functional teams has been crucial in advancing strategic initiatives and delivering substantial results. My approach integrates strong written communication with a mastery of Agile practices, ensuring efficient onshore-offshore coordination and effective change management. These competencies, shaped during my tenure at Freecharge and CRED, underscore my commitment to continuous improvement and team empowerment.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

codex

cursor

gemini

mcp

openai

Work experience

Tpm leader at Grab, Aug 2024 - Present · 2 y 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Technical Program Management at CRED, Nov 2021 - Aug 2024 · 2 yrs 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Principal Technical Program Manager at Freecharge, Apr 2021 - Nov 2021 · 8 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India

Lead Technical Program Manager at Freecharge, Dec 2019 - Mar 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India

Senior Scrum Master at UnitedHealth Group, Sep 2018 - Dec 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos, Noida, India, ✔ Monitor, review and prioritize the "Wave" plans with the objective to stay on time. ✔ Reports status and receives feedback from Program managers, Cross-App PMs, and RTEs. ✔ Collaborates with Managers, Scrum Masters, and RTEs to resolve issues within the team or wave. ✔ Manage scope, schedule, sprint planning, risks, and budget for Scrum Teams. ✔ Collaborate and Empower collective ownership in the team. ✔ Remove barriers and impediments that are preventing the team from completing work. ✔ Ensure that the team follows the Scrum process and pursues continuous innovation in their practices. ✔Owner of capturing agile project metrics and reporting.

Scrum Master at Aon, Feb 2017 - May 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos, Gurgaon, India, ✔ Lead daily stand-ups and scrum ceremonies for two scrum teams. Work with product owners to groom the backlog and plan sprints. Report at daily Scrum of Scrum meetings. Track burn down, issues and progress in JIRA. Work with component teams to resolve issues. ✔ Enforced Kanban principles as a Scrum Master that resulted in reduction of Cycle time thus increasing team's throughput in less than 8 weeks. ✔ Successfully migrated Phoenix projects from Waterfall to Scrum. ✔ Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings. ✔ Taught the team to create clear and concise epics/stories/tasks. ✔ Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility. ✔ Facilitated Scrum of Scrum for offshore teams in India. ✔ Evangelized the benefits of Scrum to ensure its smooth adoption. ✔ Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices reducing development time by 35%.

Software Engineer at Wipro, Apr 2014 - Feb 2017 · 2 y 10 mo, Pune

Education

Master of Business Administration - MBA, Project Management, Sikkim Manipal University - Distance Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Meerut Institute of Engineering and Technology(MIET)