Abhishek Sannidhi
verifiedAssociate at Cognizant • Scrum Master
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Scrum Master with 6 years of overall experience and 4.5 years of experience leading high-performing, cross-functional teams in an Agile environment on Sitecore CMS projects.
Adept at driving sprints, release planning, stakeholder alignment, and continuous delivery of complex, enterprise-grade software solutions.
Use functional and technical knowledge to remove roadblocks within the development team and identify any possible technical risks that might have an impact on the delivery.
Certified Scrum Master by Scrum Alliance & Atlassian Certified in Jira Essentials.
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Experience
Associate • Scrum Master
Cognizant
Led end-to-end facilitation on core Scrum events including Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, and Backlog Refinement.
Prepared and shared weekly Sprint Status Reports with leadership, offering clear visibility into team performance.
Proactively identified and resolved team roadblocks and cross-team dependencies using technical expertise, enabling uninterrupted workflow and reducing delivery risks.
Monitoring story/task progress using Azure DevOps (ADO) boards, ensuring transparency and tracking key Agile metrics such as sprint burndown, velocity, and issue resolution time.
Collaborated closely with stakeholders and Client Partners, ensuring timely delivery of both ad-hoc requests and planned deliverables.
Leveraged Sitecore platform knowledge to facilitate technical discussions, bridge gaps between business requirements and development effort, and challenge inflated estimates constructively.
Emphasized business values in user stories, ensuring each task was clearly aligned with customer goals and outcomes, reinforcing a value-driven development culture.
Programmer Analyst • Sitecore Developer
Cognizant
Facilitated Agile ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Reviews, Retrospectives), resolving team blockers and ensuring on-time, quality deliverables.
Collaborated with Stakeholders to translate functional requirements into technical specifications, gaining an end-to-end understanding of the requirement-to-delivery lifecycle.
Conducted website walkthrough demos for clients and business users, translating technical features into business valueand gathering actionable feedback for future sprints.
Developed and configured Sitecore templates, renderings, and content components for enterprise digital experience projects.
Prepared functional specification documents and content mapping document to support handover between business and technical teams.
Programmer Analyst Trainee • Sitecore Developer
Cognizant
Added new or modified existing content and media in the Sitecore for the client website.
Participated in the development of user guides and other application documentation.
Analyzed and understood the Sitecore CMS implementation and code implementation by other developers.
Sitecore Intern
Cognizant • February 2020 – July 2020
I have undergone training on DotNET technologies (C-sharp and ASP.NET MVC) and SQL server during initial training period.
In the next part of the training I was trained on Sitecore CMS based on C-sharp, ASP.NET MVC, and SQL server.
Developed a website independently at the end of training on Sitecore CMS.
iOS Developer Intern
Click Labs • August 2019 – January 2020
Training in iOS development using Xcode and Swift programming language for three months.
Post-training, worked for a ride-sharing app and created its white-label applications.
Worked cooperatively with others on a team to share information, resolve conflicts and make decisions.
Participate in all phases of projects from customizing the app as per user requirements, to testing and uploading the app to the Apple app store.
Let's build a culture of agility.
I am currently considering new roles for 2026 and beyond. Whether you're scaling your first team or need a Scrum Master to guide a large program. I'm ready to help you navigate the journey.