Work Experience

Client: Continental AG, Germany | Product: VDO Fleet

• Acted as the primary customer representative within the team, ensuring delivery of high-quality product components within defined cost and timeline constraints.
• Collaborated closely with stakeholders — particularly the Chief Product Owner, CTO, and Sales — to refine product requirements and outcomes.
• Created and maintained a prioritized team backlog aligned with business objectives and customer needs.
• Established and managed comprehensive product risk management processes to mitigate potential issues.
• Facilitated sprint planning, sprint reviews, and daily team meetings to drive Agile best practices and continuous improvement.
• Communicated customer requirements clearly to the development team, ensuring alignment and shared understanding.
• Led product vision and backlog for VDO Fleet B2B SaaS Onboarding, Telematics/Monetization, and Central Billing Platform.
• Drove development of self-service enrollment, account provisioning, identity & access setup, and automated configuration flows across 16 EU countries.
• Integrated Billwerk+ SAP subscription management into the organization's central billing ecosystem.

Products: Industrial Cloud (MindSphere) · SensProducts

• Represented customer interests within the cross-functional team, ensuring alignment with business objectives and stakeholder expectations.
• Defined and delivered product components within specified cost and timeline constraints.
• Created and maintained the detailed team backlog, prioritizing tasks to optimize workflow and product value.
• Established and managed robust product risk management processes, mitigating potential issues proactively.
• Led product vision and backlog for cloud-native IoT infrastructure — driving automation, scalability, and reliability.
• Defined and prioritized features for CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and platform observability.
• Collaborated with engineering, cloud, and security teams to deliver DevOps solutions aligned with business goals.
• Championed DevOps best practices — containerization, monitoring, cost optimization.
• Tracked KPIs (deployment frequency, MTTR) to inform continuous improvement and operational excellence.
• SensProducts: Digitalization of high-voltage equipment to improve grid operation and management using cloud-agnostic IoT platforms.

Client: Continental AG, Germany | Focus: Continuous Integration Platform

• Facilitated Lean-Agile ceremonies aligned with SAFe principles to enhance team collaboration and delivery efficiency.
• Collaborated with Product Owners, Project Managers, and Architects to align project objectives and technical requirements.
• Designed and developed scalable technical architecture to support robust software solutions.
• Coordinated cross-functional communication among globally distributed teams to ensure timely project execution.
• Developed high-quality code contributing directly to sprint goals, improving overall team productivity by ~15%.
• Built a custom IDE for Embedded Software developers to improve source code quality in the automotive domain.
• Developed Python scripts for CI platform integration to perform Static and Dynamic Code Analysis on Automotive Embedded Software.
• Built DevOps infrastructure automation for CI/CD using Jenkins, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes with Groovy scripting.
• Created ELK Stack dashboards for continuous integration data visualization.
• Developed Java Jenkins plugins with telemetry and reporting capabilities.
• Recognized as a key player for six consecutive years, earning a 10% CTC bonus annually.

• Developed and maintained automation frameworks for the enterprise product SDCSS, improving test efficiency significantly.
• Designed and implemented robust automation scripts for comprehensive end-to-end testing, ensuring high test coverage.
• Identified critical test scenarios and authored detailed test cases to validate product functionality.
• Enhanced automation frameworks by integrating new features, resulting in improved scalability and reduced test execution time.

• Spearheaded R&D initiatives to identify innovative technical solutions for complex engineering challenges.
• Designed and developed functional prototypes, optimizing performance through systematic trials and evaluations.
• Conducted applied research, comprehensive studies, and data-driven analyses to support product and process improvements.
• Enhanced production processes by implementing advanced methodologies, increasing efficiency and reducing operational costs.
• Monitored and assessed emerging technologies and tools to maintain competitive advantage.
• Led Big-Data Service Dashboards product — providing meaningful graphs for service ticket data (Remedy tickets) across large organizations.

Products: SDCSS (Symantec Data Center Security: Server) · SEP 12.1 Virtualization

• Developed and maintained an automation framework for SDCSS, enhancing testing efficiency by 30%.
• Designed and executed end-to-end automated test scripts covering critical product features in cloud and virtual environments.
• Identified and documented comprehensive test scenarios and detailed test cases, improving test coverage by 25%.
• Created PowerShell scripts for efficient test bed preparation, reducing setup time by 40%.
• Automated test case execution and published results across global teams, enabling faster decision-making.
• Collaborated within a 14-member Agile team delivering agentless, network-based threat detection for data center protection.
• Contributed to SEP 12.1 Virtualization — designed and implemented automation scripts using PowerShell, PowerCLI, and C# in a 7-member QA team.