About

Hrishikesh Bhruguwar is a seasoned software developer, practitioner, consultant, coach, trainer, and technology evangelist with over 16 years of experience in software product development and delivery. He specializes in designing and delivering impact-oriented short-term assignments, coaching, training, and workshops for Lean-Agile DevOps Transformations & Code Craftsmanship. Hrishikesh is a hands-on practitioner who provides coaching & training to software engineering teams for Agile Product Management, Lean-Agile Engineering Practices, Kanban for Software Development, Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, and Extreme Programming (XP). He is also an expert in DevOps Fundamentals, software architecture for Agile and DevOps, and working with VCS, Git, and build tools. As the founder and partner of arhat studios llp, Hrishikesh works as an Agile Coach to help multiple teams adopt agile practices to deliver high value. He guides ScrumMasters to facilitate the Scrum ceremonies, helps Product Owners create Product and Release roadmaps, and conducts sessions with teams to create Definition of Done. Hrishikesh also coaches management executives for successful adoption of Scrum and Scaled Agile frameworks, analyzes and improves value streams, and helps teams improve collaboration and team skills for working in a scaled agile environment. Prior to founding arhat studios llp, Hrishikesh worked as a CoE Specialist: Agile Coach at Amdocs, where he worked with multiple teams to help them adopt lean, agile, DevOps practices for continuous improvement. He also mentored teams and managed work for establishing DevOps culture and practices and conducted training for Engineering, Product Management, and Senior Management teams. Hrishikesh holds an MBA in Marketing & Finance from Nagpur University and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Technology from the same university. His tech stack includes DevOps, product management, test, software engineering, CI/CD, integration, and Jenkins. Overall, Hrishikesh has 17.95 years of relevant experience in the field.