Brijesh Shrestha / Ashburn, Virginia

Complexity,
turned into
forward motion.

I connect people, processes and technology to deliver change—from enterprise transformation to thoughtful AI products.

Enterprise deliveryAgile leadership & cross-team alignment

Process engineeringAutomation & operational improvement

AI product thinkingExplainability, evaluation & human review

01 / Selected work

A portfolio of
problems solved.

Explore enterprise initiatives and independent projects. Each story brings together the problem, my contribution and the thinking behind the work.

Find a project or skill

02 / Experience

Built across
disciplines.

Business analysis. Engineering thinking. Delivery leadership.

November 2025 — Present

Independent AI & product development

Xenote co-founder and independent builder exploring AI products, APIs, retrieval and workflow automation. Current work includes Agastya Dristi / Cosmic Insights, Agent Bridge, Job Application Auto-Filler and a connected sleep-data application. Also developing a Decision and Action OS startup thesis.

Independent project activity and professional development.

December 2012 — November 2025

Fannie Mae

Most recent formal title: Senior Scrum Master / Agile Coach. Served in Release Train Engineer, Project Manager, business analysis, enterprise process improvement and business resilience capacities.

Worked across mortgage operations, modeling, advanced analytics, risk, HR and enterprise technology. Brought stakeholder alignment, hands-on tools and disciplined delivery to concurrent initiatives.

Education

Virginia Tech

B.S., Industrial & Systems Engineering

Leadership & community

Leadership beyond
the delivery team.

Employee communities and volunteer service are part of how I lead.

Virginia United Lions Club

Charter Treasurer

Support financial stewardship through dues reconciliation, receipt-backed event expense records, and coordination of club financial administration.

Fannie Mae · 2017–2019

President, Young Professionals ERG

Led the Young Professionals Employee Resource Group alongside enterprise technology and transformation responsibilities.

Fannie Mae · 2019–2024

Vice President, Asian ERG

Served in employee community leadership, supporting connection and inclusion across the organization.

03 / Approach

Understand the system.
Then improve it.

My work starts with understanding how people and information move through a system. I bring the structure of industrial engineering, the adaptability of Agile delivery and the curiosity of a product builder.

Program deliveryProduct discoveryAgile coachingProcess redesignOperational resilienceStakeholder alignmentPython & APIsAWS deliveryOCR & ETLAI governanceJira & ConfluenceSharePoint

Credentials earned: SAFe Release Train Engineer, Certified ScrumMaster, SAFe Advanced Scrum Master and Lean Six Sigma Green Belt. Current renewal status is not represented.

04 / Resume

The career at a glance.

Brijesh Shrestha

Enterprise Technology Transformation · Program Delivery · AI Product Development
Ashburn, VA · brijesh.shrestha@gmail.com · LinkedIn ↗

Profile

Technology transformation and delivery leader with nearly 13 years at Fannie Mae. Experience spans Agile delivery, business process engineering, advanced analytics, automation and operational resilience. Combines cross-functional leadership with hands-on technical fluency and independent AI product development.

Fannie Mae · December 2012 – November 2025

Senior Scrum Master / Agile Coach (most recent formal title). Additional capacities included Release Train Engineer, Project Manager, Business Analyst and business resilience responsibilities.

Supported three Agile Release Trains and cross-team planning, dependency management, risk escalation and executive alignment.
Led Agile transformation connecting modeling and software teams, coaching Product Owners and introducing Scrum and Kanban delivery practices.
Led delivery across two teams supporting advanced analytics, OCR, claims decisioning, APIs, microservices and AWS/SageMaker initiatives.
Coordinated 17 planned and 12 ad hoc releases in 2024; 19 releases and one emergency release through July 2025.
Supported end-to-end mortgage reconciliation automation spanning document routing, OCR, ingestion, ETL, comparison and reporting.
Applied queuing theory to appraisal workflows and developed SharePoint/InfoPath tools for risk assessment and audit management.
Coordinated business impact analysis, continuity planning, disaster recovery oversight and third-party resilience assessments.
Delivered or supported employee readiness, role-based access, mentoring, secure printing and workplace change initiatives.

Independent AI Projects · November 2025 – Present

Non-employment project activity: Xenote, Agastya Dristi, Agent Bridge and connected sleep-data exploration. Work includes requirements, architecture, structured AI content, review workflows and API-based automation.

Leadership & Community Service

Charter Treasurer — Virginia United Lions Club. Support dues reconciliation, event expense documentation and club financial administration.
President — Fannie Mae Young Professionals ERG, 2017–2019.
Vice President — Fannie Mae Asian ERG, 2019–2024.

Education & Credentials

B.S., Industrial & Systems Engineering — Virginia Tech
Credentials earned: SAFe RTE, CSM, SAFe Advanced Scrum Master, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt; renewal status unverified.

Tools & Technical Exposure

Jira · Confluence · Python · SQL · SharePoint · InfoPath · CSS · APIs · AWS · SageMaker · Textract · GitLab / CI/CD

General portfolio resume. Role-specific emphasis and detailed case studies are available above.