Murali Kottapalli
Palos Hills,IL
Summary
PROFESSIONALSUMMARY SAFe-certified Release Train Engineer (RTE) with 12+ years of experience in software engineering. Skilled in Agile, DevOps, and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) processes. Adept at troubleshooting and resolving software issues, while delivering exceptional customer service. Proven ability to facilitate, coach, and plan out values in order to ensure successful and timely software releases, all while driving continuous improvements.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Release Train Engineer (RTE) | Delivery Manager
Capital One
09.2022 - 04.2023
- Capital One Martech data Apps collect card website click stream data and assist internal Analysts/Data scientists for enriching customer experience and design new products per emerging market conditions
- Planned, communicated and executed iterations and Program Increments (PI)
- Facilitated periodic Sync meeting - SOS, System Demos, I & A
- Provided status updates/ metrics to senior leadership on the performance and efficiency of the ART
- Tracked, managed, resolved risks, dependencies of the ARTs
- Led cross-functional teams to ensure successful and timely software releases
- Maintained transparency for program execution for feature delivery, overflow work trends, impact of impediments and quality metrics
- Developed custom JIRA, Wiki dash boards, reports and leveraged JIRA Align, Tableau reports to mentor agile teams
- Supported Release Train Engineers (RTEs), Product & Tech Teams to remove impediments and manage dependencies for value deliveries to customers
- Coached Product Owners and agile teams on Portfolio, Program Product Backlogs (Road maps, Epics, features refinement)
- Used feedback loops and metrics (quality, DORA) to identify areas of improvement and worked with teams to continuously increase Development Value streams
- Optimized the flow of value through the ART and events track by tools JIRA Align, JIRA, WiKi
- Created communities of practices (COPs) to enhance engineering and built-in quality practices
- Led program-level continuous improvements via retrospectives, Inspect and Adapt (I&A) workshops, Kaizen mindset, etc.
Release Train Engineer, Scrum Master II
Liberty Mutual
09.2021 - 09.2022
- Liberty Mutual Group is one of largest global property and casualty insurance companies
- Global Retail Markets (GRM) of
- Liberty has suite of IT billing applications to create policy quotes, set up billing accounts, handle payments and issue billing statements
- Utilized SAFe Agile scaled framework capabilities and growth mindset to empower, energize and motivate scrum teams
- Assisted PI planning readiness and supported synthesis of vision, roadmap, and program backlogs
- Coordinated with product management, product owners and stakeholders to ensure strategy & execution are aligned with roadmaps
- Collaborated with agile teams/ ART SMs to support PI plans, sprint plans and foster team self-awareness, encourage cross-training, decision-making and continuous improvement
- Assisted product owners with short and long-term release planning and managing interdependencies
- Set up Scrum Boards & Dash boards in JIRA and communicated metrics such as burn down chart, planning effectiveness, quality, and velocity
- Advisory role of Employees Goals setting committee, Continuous Improvement committee, and Employees
- Engagement committee, and completed Leading with Liberty (distinguished leadership) program.
Release Train Engineer | Lead Scrum Master
JP Morgan Chase
09.2010 - 09.2021
- Single use Account (SUA) is a virtual credit card application for clients
- Travel Monitoring is an application to identify international travelers proactively and allows their cards usage outside country for specific time
- Payment Net is designed to manage commercial credit card program and monitoring, reporting and spend analysis
- Facilitated scrum ceremonies PI Plans, sprint plans, daily standups, sprint reviews, refinements and sprint retrospectives
- Assessed Scrum Maturity of teams and coached them to higher levels of maturity
- Provided continuous process improvement via bi-weekly meetings
- Supported Product Owners with authoring user stories following “INVEST” model, clear acceptance criteria and grooming the Product Backlog
- Held Scrum of Scrums meetings with all Scrum Masters to share knowledge, identify X impacts, and facilitate
- Agile practice adoption, implementation, and sustainability
- Incorporated Subject matter expertise into JIRA reports and Blueprint requirements management best practices and processes
- Provided User stories, Mockups, Decisions & Clarifications, sprint status reports, Meeting notes, etc
- To teams
- Provided timely and relevant information including User stories, Mockups, Decisions & Clarifications, sprint status reports, Meeting notes etc
- Collaborated with other engineers to troubleshoot and resolve software issues
- Successfully helped Scrum teams transition from waterfall into scrum framework.
Education
Bachelor’s Degree - Science & Electronics
Andhra University
BBA - Software Engineering
Aptech
Skills
- Agile Delivery
- Agile Coaching
- Scrum Mastery
- System Thinking
- Servant Leadership
- Lean Agile Practices
- Program Planning
- Value Delivery
- Facilitation & Execution
- Effective Communication
- Continuous Learning
- Relentless improvement
- TECHINICALSKILLS
- JIRA
- JIRA Align
- BluePrint
- Slack, Microsoft Teams
- Tableau Reports
- Confluence
- Microsoft Office
- SQL
- JAVA
- DevOps
- DORA
- METRICS
- PROFESSIONALCERTIFICATIONS R ELENTLESSLEARNING
Certification
1. Certified Scrum Professional–Scrum Master (CSP -SM) Scrum Alliance
2. Advanced Certified Scrum Master (A-CSM) Scrum Alliance
3. Professional Scrum Master (PSM II) Scrum.org
4. Certified SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) Scaled Agile (SAFe)
5. Certified Scrum Educator (SEF) Scrum Alliance
6. Certified Professional Agile Coach (ACC) ICAgile
7. Certified Professional for Agile Team Facilitation (ATF) ICAgile
8. Certified Professional Agile Project & Delivery Management (APM) ICAgile
9. Certified Release Train Engineer (RTE) Scaled Agile (SAFe)
10. Certified Professional Agile Leadership (PAL) Scrum.org
11. Certified Agile Leadership for Teams (CAL) Scrum Alliance
12. Certified Professional for Leading with Agility (LEA) ICAgile
13. Certified Professional for People Development (PDV) ICAgile
14. Certified Management 3.0 Fundamentals from Management 3.0.
15. Certified LeSS Practitioner (CLP) Large Scale Scrum (LeSS)
16. Certified Scrum@Scale Practitioner (CSaSP) Scrum Inc
17. Certified Release Train Engineer (RTE) Scaled Agile (SAFe)
18. Advanced Certified Scrum Developer (A-CSD) Scrum Alliance
19. Professional Scrum with Kanban (PSK) Scrum.orgCertified Scrum
Timeline
Release Train Engineer (RTE) | Delivery Manager
Capital One
09.2022 - 04.2023
Release Train Engineer, Scrum Master II
Liberty Mutual
09.2021 - 09.2022
Release Train Engineer | Lead Scrum Master
JP Morgan Chase
09.2010 - 09.2021
Bachelor’s Degree - Science & Electronics
Andhra University
BBA - Software Engineering
Aptech