Girish Hegde

Background

About Girish Hegde

Working as Head of Development and Site Leader at Vela Technologies India a Global Capability Center of Ascertra one of the portfolios of Vela Software Group that offers industry-leading engineering document management & Interface Management solutions for the EPC industry. Over the past 24 years successfully delivered in an array of roles as Head of Engineering Site Manager Program Manager Line Manager Agile Coach and Software Developer implementing on-premises and highly scalable SaaS solutions with web desktop and mobile applications. Driven Technology leadership and innovation for over 10 years. Strategized and migrated Legacy on-premises software to microservices oriented SaaS product. Steered the team in enhancing the architecture to be high scalable reliable and extensible while delivering to the demands of 150+ EPC customers. Guided teams on engineering practices such as CI/CD TDD Automation Clean Architecture Clean Code and User Stories achieving significant improvement in Lead Time faster releases and quality. Coached 200+ and trained 500+ software professionals in India & China to adopt agile & lean software development using Scrum and Kanban approaches. Pioneered Agile Software Development practices presented at various international conferences on topics such as Platform Engineering Co-shoring Theory of Constraints Kanban and Kaizen. Expertise and Areas of Interest: • Software Engineering: Product Development Scrum Kanban XP SAFe LeSS • System Design & Architecture: Distributed Microservices SOA REST APIs & SaaS • Cloud Engineering: Azure Services DevOps SecOps CI/CD Threat Modelling • Tools: JIRA Azure DevOps Git Power BI SonarQube Confluence DocFx Eclipse Visual Studio • Programming: Java and .NET stack ReactJS JavaScript TypeScript • Domains: Document Management & Control (EDMS) Smartcards Banking and Finance (BFS) Credentials: SAFe4.0 Agilist (2017) PMP (2009) CSM (2006) and SCJP (2000)