Abrar Hashmi

Abrar Hashmi is the Chief Agile evangelist and Founder of Agile Brains Consulting Inc. He has assisted in value-based delivery transformations in various Fortune 500 companies and spoken at multiple Agile conferences as well. He has trained thousands of students in over sixty cities and  is focused on organizations embrace a culture of fearlessness and innovation. Abrar holds numerous Agile certifications (SPC, RTE, CLP, ICP-FDO, ICP-IDO, ICP-EPO, ICP-ATF, ICP-ACC, CSM, TBR)  and believes in building the new generation of Agile leaders.

Abrar specializes in serving as an Enterprise Agile Coach/ Senior Program Director for organizations interested in transforming to Agile framework. He excels at identifying team’s needs with regards to agile and coaching them through the introductory phases. He has helped multiple organizations in scaling Agile utilizing the fundamentals of SAFe, LeSS and DAD. Abrar enjoys using his vast professional experience to give his students rich knowledge that they can take back to their organization and use.

Key accomplishments:

• Served as Enterprise Agile Portfolio Director and Process Change Agent for Technology + Product (T+P) with over ten thousand employees at Comcast Cable
• Successful enterprise-wide implementation of agile processes as Agile Program Director for delivery of large scale initiatives,
• Awarded the Rex Star Award for implementing best Agile Scrum Master program management practices (CIL) 
• Set-up multiple agile release trains helping deliver minimum viable product to millions of Comcast users serving over 1.2 billion queries per day
• Agile Kanban Delivery lead for Emmy award winning Comcast Recommendations platform serving 24 million users
• Presented on various agile techniques, concepts and innovation games at various locations

Clients Supported:

• The Blackstone Group
• Cisco
• Anthem
• Blackbaud
• Bank of America
• Electronic Arts
• Intuit / TurboTax
• HBO
• Canon
• State Dept. of NY
• Nike
• Comcast
• Fidelity
• John Hancock
• Bank of Sweden
• Ericsson
• Lightning Gaming Inc.
• Banker’s Academy