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My Name is Rahul Gujar and Im from city of Pune in India.
With more than 20+ Years in the IT industry in varying roles, I'm now working as a Agile and DevOps Consultant
After spending few years in US and UK, I finally decided to move back to India after the birth of my son in 2007. Since then, I have been into various lead roles and led teams on software project deliveries with Agile. It was kind of a fortunate and natural transition for me in Agile space as I was assigned on a program with British Telecom which were into Agile since 2005.
I also had the privilege of working with a telecom products & services company- Tata Communications - as a Senior Tech Manager where I was given the opportunity to establish Agile Practice in Telepresence Engineering group which entailed setting up guidelines for Agile Teams, Defining Roles & Responsibilities, Provide appropriate trainings and set practices that builds the culture of Transparency and Collaboration.
The transformation journey itself was a long one where we transformed from 1 agile team (using Scrum) to multiple Agile teams using scaling methods of SAFe. All this took a good 2-3 years between 2015 to 2018 to materialize and reap the benefits of agile.
Also, working on niche products having global reach provided me with the right kind of technical exposure on DevOps and Cloud (AWS) added with the faster deliveries with Agile.
So with the right blend of process and technical know-how at the foundations, I decided to change tracks in my career and move on to do Consulting and IT Training in 2018 and have been assisting organizations as Agile & DevOps Consultant.
I have done few consulting assignments in Dubai with a bank on Agile transformation and as an Agile Consultant with one of the leading Healthcare Products based company in US.
I also feel teaching is twice learning and whenever I get a chance, I do trainings - few of those are listed below. I have more than 2000+ training hours and delivered trainings in India, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Dubai, Germany, Qatar, Indonesia and Sri Lanka across various clients over the past 4 years
- Agile: Leading SAFe, SAFe Scrum Master, Scrum, Scrum with Jira, Jira Bootcamp, Product Owner workshop, Jira + Confluence.
- DevOps Technical: Building CI/CD Pipelines using - GIT, JENKINS, ANSIBLE, PUPPET, DOCKER, KUBERNETES, NAGIOS.
- DevOps Process: DevOps Foundations (DOI)
- Cloud: AWS Associate Architect, AWS Associate Developer
- Jira: Jira Bootcamp and Agile with Jira
Please refer to Trainings for details
Here are some of my Certifications in Agile & DevOps
Some of the distinguished clients I have worked with -
Please visit linkedin to know more.
I'm married and my wife works in IT. We are blessed with a loving son who is in his teens. During my free time, I like reading books on management and autobiographies (they are just so inspiring) and play Badminton with a bunch of enthusiasts each morning which just switches on the competitive spirit and sets the tone for rest of the day.
If there is anything that I can be of help, please feel free to reach out to me on my mail - rgujar@gmail.com