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I have been cross-pollinating lessons in product/engineering agility between established companies (ARC: Agile Racecar, 2012) & startups (4WS: 4WeekStartup, 2005). I've been practicing "agility" from the early days of object-oriented analysis & design (1992). I first applied Agile engineering (XP) practices at BBC & Siemens (2003-2005).I founded & pivoted ridesharing/carpooling startups thru consumer (eCarpool, 1999-2001) & enterprise (RideStation, 2004-2008, US & India) strategies, turning dysfunctional global (US & India) teams hyper productive using Agile engineering (XP), Agile Project Management (Scrum) & Agile product management & strategy with User Stories, developing the ability to create customized high-fidelity prototypes on-demand in days, and enabling sales & market/investor validation through multiple pivots in weeks. In mid-2006, I decided to pivot back RideStation to a consumer network - away from VC-forced enterprise model in 2000 (selling carpool-as-a-service for employers), having validated learning in just 6 months, as the sole bootstrapping founder supported by a team of just two in India. Many of my VC funded competitors (2007 Goose, 2011 RideJoy) took as much as 6 years and $15 million in funding (2007 Zimride- precursor to Lyft) to reach the same conclusion, while others (Scoop) continue to flounder.I founded Agile Entrepreneurs (2005) to teach startup founders the "4WeekStartup (4WS)" principles- increasing Traction with a validated strategy every 4 weeks, and getting to Product/Market Fit & positive cash flow in as little as 3 months- with or without funding.I was on the Entrepreneur Committee, Board of Advisors of Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs (SVASE, 2007-2009), and contested a board seat of the Agile Alliance (2007).As an active Board Member of the non-profit Immigrants Support Network (ISN - 2000-2002), I contributed to the passage of several legislative & regulatory reforms for H-1B workers through the American Competitiveness in the 21st Century Act (AC21) in October 2000. "once Devarakonda latches on to an interest, he does not let go"-San Francisco Chronicle, 2001
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4Weekstartup.Com - Coaching Bootstrapping Entrepreneurs To Product And Market FitAgile EntrepreneursSanta Clara, Ca, Us
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4Weekstartup.Com - Coaching Bootstrapping Entrepreneurs To Product/Market FitAgile Entrepreneurs Sep 2013 - PresentCalifornia, Us"Make Your Own Mistakes, Learn From Mine!"I founded Agile Entrepreneurs (AE) as a collaborative network of founders of hi-tech product startups. AE is a trusted environment for them to share their mistakes & lessons learned with their fellow entrepreneurs, where I - Organize and moderate collaboration among 150 startup founders to resolve critical business issues. - Facilitate shared learning via status meetings (Founder Scrum), lessons (Learn by Osmosis), board meetings (strategic timeout), legal clinics, resource sharing & online tools. - Coach early-stage startups to help them get product validation in a week, traction in a month and product/market fit in as little as a quarter. - Teach (through seminars & workshops) the 4-Week Startup (4WS) method to MVP - turning infinitely vast vision into high quality, low cost, MVP in the shortest time with limited resources. I created the 4WeekStartup (4WS) program to help entrepreneurs ("Founder Core"), where I(a) coach them 1-on-1 on bootstrapping, with the goal: 7 days to user/customer Validation, 4 weeks to Traction, and as little as 3 months to Product/Market Fit; (b) provide them access to mentoring from successful bootstrapping entrepreneurs ("Useful Role Models") running profitable startups; and (c) help them build virtual teams of curated & founder-recommended shared resources that are either FREE ("Inner Circle" of Love) or paid ("Outer Orbit" of Money) on-demand professionals with maximum productivity/cost ratio.The Hire an Entrepreneur (HaE) program at Agile Entrepreneurs lets bootstrapping entrepreneurs manage their cash flow needs on their terms by connecting them with local employers & fellow agile entrepreneurs.---4WeekStartup, 4WS, 4Week Startup Bootstrapper, 4WS Bootstrapper, 4WeekStartup.Guru, HireAnEntrepreneur.com are all copyrighted names and property of Agile Entrepreneurs LLC
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Agile Racecar Driver: Executive Coach For Product/Engineering AgilityAgile Entrepreneurs Nov 2005 - PresentCalifornia, UsYour Product Team is the Driver of a high-performance Racecar (Engineering Pipeline). The process team is the Pit-crew whose job is to minimize time in the pit - reduce process friction.I work with organizations of all sizes looking to improve the productivity and efficiency of their Product & Engineering processes by understanding the roles they play & the value they create, and then empowering the product & engineering organizations from top to bottom.Organizations of all sizes - even single founder startups with outsourced teams - become victims of silos that suffocate all productivity and passion out of them. The solution is simple, as is often the case - a single (virtual) source of truth that defines the boundaries of collaboration from top to bottom of an organization, optimized to reduce the lead time of the Product pipeline & the cycle time of the Engineering pipeline - with any process being measured by the amount of friction it creates or eliminates between the two pipelines.
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Coach, Product/Engineering AgilityRedwood Software Jul 2022 - Dec 2022Frisco, Texas, UsReporting to the Chief Product Officer and working closely with the CTO and the Product & Engineering organizations and their leaders & individual contributors, drove agility in Product Management & Engineering, baking in the ability to effectively respond to market/business/product goals & strategies -
Agile ConsultantBerkshire Hathaway Homestate Companies Nov 2018 - Jan 2019San Francisco, California, Us -
Agile ConsultantIntel Corporation Sep 2018 - Nov 2018Santa Clara, California, UsAgile consulting at Intel Sports (Intel True VR - live Virtual Reality broadcast technology platform): working with head of engineering, product management & engineering directors, and engineering teams -
Agile CoachAutomation Anywhere Nov 2015 - Jul 2016San Jose, Ca, UsContinuing from the Agile transformation that I introduced in 2013 years ago, came back for an encore in adapting successful patterns in taking a global 2-tier startup to a 3-tier global corporation. -
Agile CoachAutomation Anywhere Apr 2013 - Nov 2013San Jose, Ca, Us1. Led Agile Transformation of a Global Product & Engineering Team to Agile Product Management and Iterative Delivery via Hands-on Coaching, Classroom Teaching and Active Project Management2. Led Project delivery for a new Cloud Product, working closely with Executives and Engineering & Product Leadership3. Worked with Executives to implement Agile Paradigms for Top-down Executive Collaboration, Accountability and Proactive Leadership.
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Agile CoachStubhub Jul 2012 - Sep 2012New York, Ny, UsAs the full-time onsite Agile Coach, provided assessment of gaps in Agile adoption to management and proposed effective remedies. Mentored Product & Engineering Teams and their Leadership in applying Agile methods for effective Product Management and an efficient Engineering pipeline. Provided hands-on coaching to Scrum teams and Project Managers in multiple Agile projects. -
Iteration Manager / Agile CoachGap Inc./Gap Inc. Direct May 2012 - Jul 2012San Francisco, California, UsProvided Agile expertise as the Iteration Manager for a core Platform development team migrating from Oracle to HBase and SOLR technologies. Later, working for an Infrastructure & Deployment team that supported 7 Product Development Project teams, successfully promoted effective collaboration processes for shared ownership across Development & Operations teams. Demonstrated optimal use of JIRA/Greenhopper as a single source of truth for DevOps collaboration with crisp Project specific Dashboards, Planning Boards & Rapid Boards built upon a foundation of intelligent, custom filters. -
Agile CoachBlue Shield Of California Oct 2010 - Aug 2011Oakland, California, UsLed the implementation and governance of Agile methods (Scrum & XP) across the organization. Also managed the creation of the first Mobile product for Blue Shield comprising a mobile website and apps for the iPhone and Android platforms. Led a worldwide distributed team of employees, contractors and vendors, comprising product managers, UX designers, developers and QA in the US, Serbia, and India. -
Member, Board Of Advisors, Entrepreneur CommitteeSvase.Org Jul 2007 - Jul 2009Entrepreneur Committee members met on a regular basis with the SVASE CEO, Board members and other Advisors, to help develop SVASE goals and strategies, as the leading support organization for entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. Like all SVASE Advisors, Entrepreneur Committee members were volunteers.My role was providing perspective as a bootstrapping entrepreneur and act as a two-way communication and feedback channel between SVASE Board and startup entrepreneurs, particularly those who are bootstrapping.
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Volunteer, TieconThe Indus Entrepreneurs 2003 - 2009Volunteered every year between January and May to organize TiECon, the largest entrepreneurship conference in the world attracting over 4,000 attendees. I took on multiple roles including Marketing, PR, Content, and Sales.
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Technical Program Manager, Platform EngineeringLinkedin May 2008 - Nov 2008Sunnyvale, Ca, UsI worked closely with cross-functional groups including product managers, engineering management, engineers and engineering services (QA, performance & build/release). Duties included scoping & estimating schedules, getting approval for PRs, maintaining project plans, driving cross-functional team initiatives, deliverables & schedules, and keeping all stakeholders in the loop.Evangelized & demonstrated effective use of Agile methods - Scrum for project management and XP in Product Management & Engineering. Tools used included JIRA and Confluence.Involved in managing multiple projects, including:- Enhancements to LinkedIn's core platform.- Coordinating between Product Management & Engineering for LinkedIn's support for Google OpenSocial API.- A project portfolio management tool to manage the complete lifecycle of internal projects from requirements to release - and beyond.- A research project in collaboration with a top university. -
Founder/ Head Of Product Management, Engineering & Agile MethodsCrystal Ball Corporation Mar 2005 - Feb 2008I founded Crystal Ball Corporation with a mission to leverage technology to solve end-user problems.The flagship product, RideStation.com is based upon eight years of original research for which we have four US patents-pending. When I wore my engineering hat, I drove the product requirements and oversaw product development with a global engineering team based in the Bay Area, and India (Hyderabad and Delhi). I drove product marketing, channel sales & business development, and fund-raising when I had my business hat on. I dreamt up the product vision and strategy when I was hatless, in the shower or when I was sleeping.
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Founder/ Managing DirectorCrystal Ball Soft Solutions India (P) Ltd. Mar 2005 - Feb 2008Crystal Ball Soft Solutions was the India development center of RideStation. It was a services company based at Hyderabad, A.P., India, specializing in Agile/XP development for startups. We leveraged our experience as a web-based product startup to help other entrepreneurs and startups build their products rapidly, getting valuable customer feedback early. We worked with customers to define requirements as User Stories, then scheduling them into the short releases & iterations by balancing the engineering effort needed and the customer priority. Our process was designed to let entrepreneurs and startups respond to changing customer requirements and priorities at lightning speed with production quality code. And yet, we had the lowest total cost of development and the lowest per developer cost- guaranteed. You knew exactly how much your cost was going to be in advance- no ifs and buts about it. And *you* decided when the work was completed.
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Vp, Public Relations, Stanford Leb Toastmasters ClubDistrict 4 Toastmasters Jan 2007 - Dec 2007UsTwo-term VP of Public Relations for the Toastmasters group meeting at the Stanford Business School every Wednesday night. A big part of the job involved interacting closely with the group's sponsor - the faculty member at the Stanford Graduate School of Business - to ensure we could continue to meet at Stanford. During my two terms, we never missed a single date. In other words, every scheduled meeting in 2007 was successfully held at our regularly scheduled time (7:00pm to 9:00pm Wednesday). -
Middleware Staff Engineer- Bbc TechnologySiemens Business Services Media (Formerly Bbc Technology) Aug 2003 - Mar 2005Munich, DeMiddleware Engineer working on the server portion of a Digital Media Workflow automation software. Technologies used inlcuded JBoss 3.x Application server, Oracle 9i database, and Quantel Media Servers. -
Board Member- Isn.OrgImmigrants Support Network May 2000 - Apr 2004As a Board Member, my leadership of ISN in the SF Bay Area and rest of US became the model for how non-profit organizations can leverage the internet to succeed. We helped legal, hi-tech workers overcome the morass of visa laws and exploitative agencies through Congressional "lobbying", fund-raising, outreach to INS, DOJ, GAO, employers, and the media. I managed our mailing list and ISN.org, reaching 20,000 members and over 200,000 interested parties, getting extensive coverage in Newsweek, NY Times, WSJ, CNN, BBC Radio, NPR, CNBC, SJ Mercury News, SF Chronicle, local TV stations, and international media from UK, France, Switzerland, Hong Kong, and India. In March 2001, I got noted angel investor (of Exodus fame) and then President of TiE, Kanwal Rekhi to join our Board of Advisors. Together we began crafting a strategy to take ISN to the next level - until 9/11 changed everything. See http://bit.ly/americandream20 for a fairly accurate story in SF Chronicle. A documentary film crew followed me in 2001 as I led ISN during the economic downturn: http://www.film.com/movies/movies-on-demand-american-dream-2-0
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Customer Support- Ibm WebsphereIbm, Rtp Jan 2002 - Dec 2002Armonk, New York, Ny, UsI worked in the IBM WebSphere customer support, resolving customer issues of every kind. I leveraged my years of experience as a software engineer, but at the same time I learned crucial crisis management and customer satisfaction techniques. I constantly pushed for improvements in the support processes, including promoting the use of best tools & technology for process automation, cutting down on repetition and data loss, leading to greater efficiency in the worldwide support organization. -
Founder; Product Manager & Business DevelopmentEcarpool.Com Nov 1999 - Sep 2001· As the founder and CEO of eCarpool.com, I filed for 3 patents for the intranet-based portal product designed to provide a transportation management solution for employers in major metros. · I brought on board two co-founders, including a technical leader of the original teams of WebObjects (Next), and later iTunes (Apple).· In my business development role, my primary responsibility included fund-raising, partnerships, and sales.· I led Product Management & Strategy, leading to Product Discovery, design & development, Customer development and sales.· The dotcom collapse in mid-2000 led to an existential crisis, through which I led the company into a successful pivot from a consumer dotcom that no immediate future without funding to one that could generate revenue from enterprises. This pivot led to a customer (Sun Microsystems) and investor commitments ($1 million) by the end of 2000. · Hired a seasoned veteran of 19 years from the aerospace industry as the VP of Marketing & Sales reporting to me.· Continued crash of the dotcom economy through 2001 led to retrenchment by investors, and forced a shutdown by mid-2001.
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Principal Software EngineerShaktisoft Inc. Jul 1997 - Aug 2001Worked with client companies, primarily early-stage technology startups, helping them get off the ground. I specialized in Java and Microsoft technologies ranging from Microsoft's MFC & COM, Internet Explorer WebBrowser ActiveX control, and J2EE (BEA WebLogic,IBM WebSphere,etc). Clients include ZapMe/Frog Design, Vividence, Health Quality, Beatnik.com/IXL Enterprises, and Covad.
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Senior Software EngineerAdvent Software May 1996 - Feb 1997San Francisco, Ca, UsI was one of the developers in the "Moxy" Trade Order Management System (Visual C++, MS SQL Server, on Windows 95/NT). I also implemented and maintained Moxy setup & configuration program in Visual Basic. -
Software EngineerKeane May 1994 - May 1996London, United Kingdom , GbI worked in various projects at client sites, including IBM Boca Raton, IBM Austin, and Fidelity Investments in Dallas. Projects included the OS/2 Adapter Device Drivers, IBM Microkernel Build, porting IBM Visual Age C++ for the PDA, OS/2 Security, and porting Fidelity's portfolio database from a mainframe to Solaris-Oracle based client-server system in C++. -
Software Engineer / Research AssistantIbm 1992 - 1996Armonk, New York, Ny, UsI worked in various projects at client sites, including IBM Boca Raton, IBM Austin, and Fidelity Investments in Dallas. Projects included the IBM Screen Reader 2, OS/2 Adapter Device Drivers, IBM Microkernel Build, porting IBM Visual Age C++ for the PDA, OS/2 Security, and porting Fidelity's portfolio database from a mainframe to Solaris-Oracle based client-server system in C++.
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Graduate Teaching Assistant; Fortran For Undergraduate Engineering StudentsFlorida Atlantic University Aug 1991 - Dec 1992Boca Raton, Fl, UsFall 1991: Grading Assistant for the Professor teaching FORTRAN to undergraduate engineering (non-computer science) students. (I taught this class later.)Spring & Fall 1992: Teaching Assistant: Independently implemented the syllabus selected by the University, created the coursework and programming assignments, taught FORTRAN to undergraduate engineering (non-computer science) students, coached students in need of extra/individual help by providing unlimited offices hours, created & graded assignments and exams, and decided final grades. -
Software Programming InstructorSoftlab May 1989 - Dec 1990Taught computer programming to school children from 1st to 12th grades, teaching Pascal for high school students, BASIC for grades 6th through 12th, and Logo graphic primitives for 1st thru 5th. Also trained fellow instructors in programming fundamentals and computer architecture.
M. Krishna Devarakonda Skills
Agile Methodologies
Start Ups
Product Management
Strategy
Software Development
Entrepreneurship
Agile Project Management
Management
Scrum
Program Management
Mobile Devices
Business Development
Project Management
Leadership
Cross Functional Team Leadership
Product Marketing
Enterprise Software
Web Applications
Software Project Management
Social Networking
Social Media Marketing
Saas
Team Management
Software Engineering
Agile
Product Development
E Commerce
Social Media
Java Enterprise Edition
Requirements Analysis
Entrepreneurship Education
New Business Development
Executive Coaching
Marketing Communications
Direct Sales
Sales Process
It Strategy
Agile Product Management
Agile Coaching
Bootstrapping
Start Up Consulting
Lean Startup
Extreme Programming
Mobile Solutions
Mobile
Public Relations
Offshore Software Development
Offshore Project Management
Offshore Operations
Non Profits
M. Krishna Devarakonda Education Details
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Florida Atlantic UniversityComputer Science -
Osmania UniversityElectronics & Communications
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Nrupathunga Junior CollegeEnglish
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People'S High SchoolSecondary School Certification (Ssc)
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San José State UniversityEjb
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