Varun Kolvi

• Release manager / Infrastructure Manager with over a decade of Solid IT experience with outstanding release planning, execution, tracking, and delivering quality deliverables with ability to support multiple simultaneous projects • Successfully release multiple solutions in Healthcare, Power, Retail, banking and Manufacturing domains while working with Fortune 50 companies • Demonstrated abilities to manage a release through its lifecycle such as initiation, planning and implement, test, deploy and distribute • Strengths include big picture focus while improving release cycles with the help of LEAN value stream mapping exercise • Extensive experience in Release / Change Management, Resource Management, Test Management, Infrastructure Management • Proven experience in adopting of key engineering practices like Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Test Driven development, DevOps, LEAN etc., to improve quality • and reliability of deliverables • Effect in management of multiple priorities and rapidly changing environments • Enforce consistency and standardize processes across different teams and across the organization • Worked with 16+ multiple scrums teams with global delivery model • Proven track record of Implementing LEAN and optimizing release cycles • Client facing experience in fortune 50 clients in retail, healthcare, logistics and energy domains • Extensive Experience in Process definition and Implementation. ISO 19443 implementation experience • Experience with HP ALM, JIRA, TFS, Confluence etc., • Preparing Release cadence for Planned Product Increments and present it to STE teams to get approval • Work closely with Product Management, Product Owners and other stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution is aligned with organization roadmap • Own and drive continuous improvements by tracking and presenting metrics, facilitating retrospectives and assessments, perform RCA using fish bone diagrams and identifying and tracking specific actions items • Expertise in Configuration Management, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Release Management and Distribution Management • Highly motivated and committed Dev Ops professional experienced in Automating, Configuring, and deploying instances • Strong knowledge and skills on setting up different stages such as Production, Development and Testing Environment. • Extensive experience in using Build Automation Dev Ops tools like Jenkins, SVN, GITHUB, GE Artifactory, Nagios and SAST, DAST Tools.