Kapil Sawankar
Pune,Maharashtra
Summary
Experienced and results-driven Release Manager with 6 years of expertise overseeing end-to-end release processes in dynamic and fast-paced environments. Successfully managed planning, scheduling, coordination, and deployment of software releases across multiple platforms. Collaborated effectively with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth and timely releases, while mitigating risks and resolving issues. Possesses strong knowledge of Agile, DevOps, and ITIL best practices, as well as a solid understanding of continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. Highly skilled in managing release cycles, tracking progress, and maintaining clear communication between development, QA, and operations teams. Committed to driving efficiency, improving release quality, and ensuring minimal disruption to business operations. Solid background in coordinating software releases and ensuring seamless integration. Proven track record of managing cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software products on time. Demonstrated expertise in problem-solving and effective communication to facilitate collaboration and meet changing requirements.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Release Manager
Kaiser Permanente
08.2024 - Current
- Planning: Involve in the product increment features planning or hot-fixes planning, defining product increment release versions and define the product increment release schedule
- Coordination: Working with Engineering team, Product team, QA team, DevOps team, Operations team and other teams to ensure all aspects of release process are executed seamlessly
- Act as the primary point of contact for all release-related communications, including updates to stakeholders, management, and external partners
- Version Control: Manage the code movements to various code repository branches – main/ master, dev, qa etc
- Tagging/labelling repository with release version once the code is merged in release branches of code repositories
- Deployment: Managing the deployment process, including the distribution of product increments to various environments including development, testing, staging and production
- Monitoring and Reporting: Tracking closely the progress of the releases, resolving issues that may arise and reporting on release activities
- Track release metrics, such as release frequency, success rates, and issues encountered, and report these to management
- Documentation: Ensuring that all release documentation is complete and up-to-date
- The documentation includes release notes which contains the notes about new features, hot fixes, known issues, limitations that are part of current release
- Documentation includes tracking and updating of release versions, the deployment/upgradation plan in customer environment and the status of deployment/upgradation
- Risk Management: Identifying potential risks in the release process and implementing strategies to mitigate them
- Change Management: Managing change requests and ensure they are documented, reviewed, and approved in a structured manner
- Release Policy and Process: Defining and enforcing release policies and processes, ensuring compliance and continuous improvement
- Post-Release Activities: Organize post-release reviews and retrospectives, capturing lessons learned and identifying areas for improvement
- Managed end-to-end release process, collaborating with teams to gather requirements and dependencies
- Scheduling, planning, and controlling the software's development and delivery process
- Handling the DevOps team to make them deliver the services on time and will manage both IT operations and developers
- Release the software after completing the testing stage and deployment stage, and work closely with the application development team, testing team, and production team
- Plan the release of project deliverables and release life cycle
- Maintained version control systems meticulously, ensuring accurate tracking and easy rollback capabilities when necessary.
- Coordinated scheduled releases and updates.
- Collected, modeled and analyzed data in order to make proactive adjustments to plans and meet all milestones.
- Created presentations and infographic for platform release enhancement communications.
- Identified risks and dependencies early in the process, enabling proactive mitigation strategies to protect project timelines.
- Evaluated potential third-party tools or services to enhance release management capabilities, recommending solutions that aligned with budgetary and technical requirements.
Application Release Manager
Billennium India Private Limited
07.2023 - 08.2024
- Managed end-to-end release process, collaborating with teams to gather requirements and dependencies
- Developed and maintained release schedules, ensuring on-time software deliveries
- Handled TIBCO Release and Change Management activities, ensuring stability and adherence
- Implemented release automation tools, boosting efficiency in processes
- Resolved release-related issues with development and ops teams
- Developed comprehensive release documentation including notes and guides
- Led weekly CAB meetings, managing change approvals and reporting
- Drive reduction in emergency changes through improved planning
- Coordinates activities and tasks among team members, other internal departments and client or vendor/subcontractor organizations as needed to meet release goals and ensure release completion is on schedule, within budget constraints and of the appropriate quality standards for the release scope
- Manages risks, issues, problems and activity progress to ensure delivery goals, e.g., deadline, scope and quality are achieved
- Assists with problem resolution or risk mitigation as needed
Configuration Release Analyst Senior
FIS Solutions India Private Limited
07.2022 - 07.2023
- Involved in the planning and coordination of all aspects of a release from initiation through to delivery
- Manages release activities including identifying contractual obligations, client needs and goals, existing situation, necessary contacts and access to existing information as needed
- Develops, defines and executes release plans, release scope, activities, schedules, budgets and deliverables
- Handle Docker deployment issues and pipeline failures
- Enhance application performance and uptime reporting
- Interacts with project development, sales, client relationship teams, technology solutions, service delivery and/or other cross-functional teams
- Resolve GIT conflicts pre-development branch push
- Use Agile, Kanban, and Scrum methodologies
- Communicate the project-related tasks such as plans, timelines, requirements, etc
- Between different teams
- Coordinate the release schedule and resources required depending upon the third-party applications, defect backlogs, planned releases, and infrastructure updates
Technology Analyst
Infosys Limited
01.2019 - 06.2022
- Drive emergency changes using change management process
- Coordinate Change/Release requests with release teams through all lifecycle phases
- Develop and distribute Change activity dashboards weekly\\monthly
- Establish and measure Change implementation KPIs
- Lead change assessment, analysis, documentation, and implementation
- Manage and communicate with stakeholders on change activities
- Manages risks, issues, problems and activity progress to ensure delivery goals, e.g., deadline, scope and quality are achieved
- Assists with problem resolution or risk mitigation as needed
Education
Master of Engineering - Mechanical
University of Pune
05-2016
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical
Amravati University
12.2013
Skills
- Agile & DevOps Methodologies
- AWS
- AWS EC2
- Bitbucket
- CI/CD
- Configuration
- Confluence
- Cross-Functional Team Coordination
- DevOps
- Docker
- Docker Compose
- EC2
- GIT
- Gitlab
- ITIL
- ITSM
- Change Management
- Version Control
- Jenkins
- Jira
- Kanban
- Linux
- Nexus
- S3
- SCM
- Scrum
- SQL
- Terraform
- TIBCO
- Vmware
- Vsphere
- Release Management
- Scheduling
- Leading teams
- Deployment strategies
- Developing relationships
- Quality control standards
LANGUAGES
English
Native
Hobbies and Interests
Learning New Technologies
Accomplishments
- Your Achievement
- Best Employee of the Year2020-2021
Training
Jenkins CI/CD, Docker Containerization
Timeline
Release Manager
Kaiser Permanente
08.2024 - Current
Application Release Manager
Billennium India Private Limited
07.2023 - 08.2024
Configuration Release Analyst Senior
FIS Solutions India Private Limited
07.2022 - 07.2023
Technology Analyst
Infosys Limited
01.2019 - 06.2022
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical
Amravati University
Master of Engineering - Mechanical
University of Pune
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