JANMEJAY BARAL
Bengaluru,India
Summary
Technical Product Manager with 13+ years of experience leading strategy and execution across enterprise SaaS, DevOps platforms, and cloud-native infrastructure services. Proven ability to translate complex engineering requirements into scalable product capabilities while driving adoption, reliability, and operational efficiency. Expert in Kubernetes, CI/CD automation, cloud architecture, observability, security compliance, and data-driven decision-making. Known for orchestrating cross-functional alignment, optimizing release velocity, reducing operational load, and delivering customer-centric outcomes at scale.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
4
4
Certification
Work History
Product Owner / Technical Product Manager
Smarsh India Pvt. Ltd.
07.2015 - Current
- Defined and executed multi-year product roadmaps, driving a 20% increase in feature adoption and a 15% reduction in high-touch support escalations.
- Orchestrated Agile execution across engineering, UX, QA, platform, and security teams, improving sprint throughput and release predictability by 30%.
- Drove prioritization frameworks (RICE, impact vs. effort, customer value scoring) to align internal stakeholders and optimize resource allocation.
- Led cloud-native modernization, migrating workloads to Kubernetes and reducing cloud costs by 25% while improving system scalability and resilience.
- Implemented DORA metrics and DevOps KPIs, boosting deployment frequency and improving mean time to recovery (MTTR) by 30%.
- Enhanced CI/CD architecture using Concourse and Argo CD, cutting deployment failures by 40% and accelerating release cycles.
- Integrated Datadog, Prometheus, and Honeycomb to improve system visibility, reducing incident resolution time by 35% and strengthening SLO/SLA adherence.
- Drove incident, problem, and change management initiatives to reduce unplanned downtime and improve root cause identification accuracy.
- Partnered with platform engineering to design auto-scaling, performance tuning, and container-runtime optimizations across Kubernetes clusters.
- Embedded DevSecOps controls into CI/CD workflows (shift-left), improving early defect detection and reducing downstream vulnerabilities.
- Ensured alignment with SOC2, GDPR, and HIPAA by integrating audit logging, policy-as-code workflows, and continuous compliance monitoring.
- Collaborated with InfoSec to define security test coverage, vulnerability burn-down targets, and misconfiguration KPIs.
- Collaborated with customers, CSMs, product managers, and architecture teams to refine requirements and shape 15+ strategic roadmap initiatives.
- Drove business continuity and disaster recovery programs, achieving 100% compliance and reducing recovery time by 30%.
- Led go-to-market alignment across engineering, support, and release management to ensure seamless product adoption for high-value customers.
Senior Software Engineer
Indecomm Global Services
02.2015 - 06.2015
- Developed automated test frameworks and validation suites for customer-facing applications, improving release quality.
- Collaborated with developers and product owners to align test coverage with evolving product features.
- Diagnosed performance issues using logs and metrics, enabling faster stabilization of production environments.
QA Automation Engineer
HCL Technologies
01.2014 - 01.2015
- Contributed to the Aadhaar program, supporting HDFS-to-MapR migration and peripheral system impact analysis.
- Developed Selenium-based automation suites and JUnit test frameworks, improving regression test coverage.
- Performed load, performance, and backend testing using SQL, Hadoop Shell, and MongoDB.
Software Engineer
Arcus India Pvt. Ltd.
06.2011 - 01.2014
- Delivered corporate technical training across programming, databases, and system fundamentals.
- Contributed to server-side development, database connectivity, and system behavior analysis under load.
- Created unit test suites using JUnit to ensure functional reliability and code quality.
Education
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) -
Biju Patnaik University of Technology
Odisha01.2010
Skills
- Product Strategy & Roadmaps
- Backlog Prioritization & Agile Delivery
- Distributed Systems & Kubernetes
- CI/CD Automation (Argo CD, Concourse)
- Cloud Architecture (AWS, Azure, Springboot)
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- Observability (Datadog, Prometheus, Honeycomb)
- DORA Metrics & DevOps Practices
- Security & Compliance (SOC2, GDPR, HIPAA)
- Stakeholder & Customer Engagement
- Incident, Problem & Change Management
- OKRs, KPIs & Data-Driven Product Decisions
Certification
- PMP – Project Management Professional
- CSPO – Certified Scrum Product Owner
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
- PSM-I – Professional Scrum Master
Timeline
Product Owner / Technical Product Manager
Smarsh India Pvt. Ltd.
07.2015 - Current
Senior Software Engineer
Indecomm Global Services
02.2015 - 06.2015
QA Automation Engineer
HCL Technologies
01.2014 - 01.2015
Software Engineer
Arcus India Pvt. Ltd.
06.2011 - 01.2014
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) -
Biju Patnaik University of Technology