Garigipati Devicharan

Background

About Garigipati Devicharan

Global leader with proven experience in delivering large enterprise level programs and leading organizational transformation. Skilled in attracting and developing high performing teams, ensuring delivery excellence, quality, and customer satisfaction. Strong Proponent of Agile and DevOps methodologies. Proficient in design, development, quality, and continuous integration-continuous delivery. Passionate about innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement. • Spearheaded the business transformation of Enterprise IT Platform (PLM) implementation and received the #CEOAward (GE Vernova). • Part of SMO (Separation Management Office) IT governance team to launch GE Vernova. • Transitioned the product engineering teams from a Waterfall based model to DevOps and SAFe (Scaled Agile) across global sites (US, Europe, India) and restructured them into functional groups (Spotify/Agile Model). • Achieved the CIO level targets of Tech Debt Reduction, App Consolidation, Decommission and Cloud migration (AWS) using Software Engineering practices and DevOps implementation for complex enterprise systems. • Managed Vendor Relations, contract negotiation and execution oversight using different methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, Fixed Capacity and T&M) and business models (Traditional and Factory) to improve resource utilization and productivity. Optimized costs at Site Level as India Site Point of contact. • Developed Windows, Enterprise web applications using VC++, COM, Win32SDK, C#, C++ and ASP.NET with Enterprise Design Patterns, OOAD, UML. Leveraged Data Analytics concepts, Semantic Analysis and Learning Systems for enhancing software quality and performance. • Led Quality Practice across product lines, transformed to Agile based Quality practice. Focused on customer centric approaches (Personas, Customer Focused Validations, Performance Testing) and built in quality practices (Shift Left, Test Automation). Established Quality Management System and metric oriented approaches for tracking improvements at Business Unit Level. • Handled Budgeting, Forecasting and Business Operations at Product Portfolio level [SSG].