Saikalyan Akunuri

Engineering programmes run. Teams aligned. Delivery visible.

Fractional Programme Manager and Agile Coach. 25 years in software engineering. Available for remote engagements.

25 yrs

Software engineering

15+ teams

Hach / Danaher

4 countries

US, DE, CH, India

Saikalyan Akunuri

Three ways to work together

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Ongoing retainer

Fractional Programme Manager / RTE

You have multiple Scrum teams but nobody owns what happens between them. I set up and run the coordination layer: Scrum of Scrums, PI Planning, dependency tracking, dashboards that reflect reality.

5-day Kaizen + 3 months

Agile Team Onboarding (Kaizen)

A 5-day Kaizen to get a team sprint-ready, followed by 3 months of sustenance coaching. Tested across 15+ teams at Hach. I stay until it sticks.

2-3 day diagnosticStart here

Programme Health Check

Something is wrong but you are not sure where to look. Two to three days of review, ending with a prioritised action plan you can act on immediately.

Hach / Danaher

15+

Scrum teams coordinated

4

Countries, one programme

8 yrs

Running the programme

What this looks like in practice

15+ Scrum teams. US, Germany, Switzerland, India. No shared timezone. No natural alignment. Leadership needed to know what was at risk at any given point.

I built the PMO infrastructure from scratch: Scrum of Scrums, PI Planning, Jira dashboards, dependency registers, risk tracking. Not as a one-off setup, but as a running system the programme operated on for years.

That level of visibility does not happen by itself. It requires someone whose job it is to own the space between the teams. That is what I do.

Background

Agile Coach CertificationEarned at Hach (Danaher). Hands-on, results-verified. Not a classroom exam.
SAFe Agilist (SA)Scaled Agile
Microsoft Certified Azure Architect
TOGAF 8Enterprise Architecture
8 years at Hach (Danaher)15+ Scrum teams across US, Germany, Switzerland, India
5 years at FinastraFinancial services architecture
7 years at WiproCross-functional programmes

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Available for remote engagements in US and European time zones.

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