Vinood Pungle

Tech Delivery Manager with 22+ years in software delivery, including 12+ years as a Certified ScrumMaster and Agile Project / Programme Manager for global financial-services clients in regulated environments (UK private banking, securities, mortgage and fund administration).

Currently Technical

Manager at Globant, leading Azure-based Generative AI and agentic RAG platforms for a Big Four audit client. Experienced in running 50+ person, multi-team programmes with SAFe PI Planning, Scrum of Scrums, CI/CD, and strong risk, change and release governance. PMP, PMI-ACP, SAFe 6 Agilist, CSM; Executive Certificate in AI/ML for Leaders (IIM Visakhapatnam). Based in Pune.

Globant, Pune — Technical Manager (Tech Delivery Manager) | Apr 2021 – Present

• Deloitte (US), 2025–present: leading an Azure RAG + agentic AI platform (Azure OpenAI, Cognitive Search, Document Intelligence, Neo4j, Durable Functions) that automates ingestion and maintenance of audit manuals; owns backlog, estimates, plan and budget.
• Deloitte Transformation Hub discovery (2025): current/target-state architecture and investment trade-offs for senior client stakeholders.
• EY Helix 2.0 (2021–2025): quarterly budgeting and PI planning for 3+ Scrum teams / 50+ people across India and onshore; CI/CD on Azure DevOps; Agile metrics in executive reporting.

SurpriseRed.com, Pune — Founder / Business Owner | Oct 2019 – Apr 2021

• Ran an e-commerce start-up end to end: P&L, strategy and a 15-person tech team.

Zensar Technologies, Pune — Technical Project Manager / Agile Project Manager (Scrum Master) / Project Manager / Technical Manager | Jul 2004 – Sep 2019

• Assurant Mortgage Solutions (US): Scrum Master for a regulated mortgage platform on.NET microservices.
• C. Hoare & Co. (UK private bank): led the Waterfall-to-Agile transformation; Scrum of Scrums across 2 onshore + 3 offshore teams.
• SILICA Fund Administration (South Africa): Project Manager under CMMi L5; represented the programme in an external CMMi L5 audit.
• Investec Securities (South Africa): 3 years onsite as Technical Manager; set up CI with TFS Builds.

Earlier: Esstech Software Services, Mumbai — Team Leader (2002–2004); Microbit Associates, Mumbai — Software Engineer (1999–2002).

B.E. (Mechanical), Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad — 1997

Diploma in Advanced Computing, CDAC (Mumbai Educational Trust) — 1999

Diploma in Mechanical Engineering, Government Polytechnic, Aurangabad — 1994

Executive Certificate in AI/ML for Leaders, IIM Visakhapatnam — 2025

Certifications: PMP (PMI, 2024) · PMI-ACP (PMI, 2023) · Certified SAFe 6 Agilist (2024) · Certified ScrumMaster (Scrum Alliance, 2017) · DevOps with AI – MLOps & LLMOps (2026)