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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
Odisha
01.2010

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
JANMEJAY BARAL