savinder puri

Second innings @ Zensar - double the excitement, four times the challenges to solve!!!!

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TBC aims to transform into a more digital Business, expand internationally and attract the best talent in Georgia.

Year 1 focused on a) increasing software delivery speed and b) improving software quality.
Automation was a key enabler on every layer of software delivery and maintenance – starting from development, ending with monitoring

Year 2 focused on stability of our services.
Ensured Squad

Moved back to India. Global responsibility for institutionalising the following at Enterprise level:
* Defined/set up Community of Practices (CoP) at Zensar level. DevOps CoP was 150+
* DevSecOps adoption at scale across all Geos
* Agile HR - recruitment, talent development, employee engagement, benefits etc.
* Cloud Platform solutions - curation, business case, development, GTM, upsell etc.

DevOps Institute Ambassadors (DOIA) are individuals, Humans of DevOps pioneers who are passionate about DevOps movement, are recognized DevOps thought leaders and subject matter experts and who are willing to contribute voluntarily to the Collective Body of Knowledge (CBok) of DevOps, local community engagement and support the global Humans of DevOps community by DevOps Institute.

• Relocated to the UK. Dual role of TTG Lead (Tech Transformation Group) UK/Europe - specialised core solutions team.
Won £26 M biz last year - crafting/defending multi-service, Experience led transformations
• C-Level relationships, Analyst cultivation, Community engagement & outreach
• GTM strategy. Global Sales enablement. Built niche Partner Ecosystem
• Successful delivery of DevOps engagement

• Ownership of Proposal wins and growth (mining & hunting). CoE revenue up by 600%
• GTM formulation with Bain & Company. Global Sales enablement
• Successful delivery of DevOps engagements across focus markets: USA, UK & South Africa
• Thought leadership, Customer Exec relationships, mini “DevOps Days” at Customer site

As the first Solution Architect in DevOps CoE, formulating it’s Service Offerings, Differentiators and Partner Eco-System. Working with Customers and within the Org, educating them on DevOps and creating Business Cases. Great Fun - and it’s just getting started!

Built a world-class IT organization from the ground up for this startup in Enterprise Mobile space. My key initiatives:

Build Engineering:
• Envisioned and setup the Continuous Delivery (CD) system for iOS, Java, Python, .Net and HTML components, which helped achieve
accelerate mean-time-to-deploy (MTTD) by 78%
• Created an OTA (over-the-air) deployment for iOS Beta Testing. Helped increase Bet

Lead the “SCM and Automation” team at Accept Development centre, a SaaS based start-up organisation. Being Agile Coach, I was responsible for defining and institutionalising ways of working, besides the following:

Continuous Delivery Mindset and Tooling:
• Architected an UrbanCode Deploy implementation organization wide, resulting in 95%+ automated build and deployments. This was one of the earli

6 years at Siemens PLM have been across Teamcenter Enterprise, Project and Systems Engineering, with responsibilities across:

Release Management:
• Chair Person of Patch Review Board – a weekly quorum for reviewing Patch Content presented by Developers
• Create, track and manage the relationship between a PR (Defect) – ChangeSet (Source) - Patch Object (Delivery Object) – Patch Set (Delive

Responsible for the transition of all Build activities from US office to India.

• Worked in Merant’s ODC, later acquired by Serena Software. Responsible for transitioning Build activities to Bangalore ODC
• Developed a CLI Automation Framework for Merant Dimensions – comprising of a CL-Harness (Test Controller/Verifier), Command Generator (cmd-to-parameter mappings), DTEE (execute parameteriz

Pioneer the localization build efforts for various Autodesk products at Neilsoft. Lead a tools group that developed various tools to automate the processes. Interaction with Country specific offices for translations.

• Part of Localization Build Team, working on Autodesk Products – MDT/AcadM/Investor Series(AIS)
• Creation of localized builds/patches for FIGS/EE. Responsible for Final RTM valida

Issued Jun 2023