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Basanta is a motivated individual that strives for high quality in his work. As a Product professional, B has a passion for designing and launching new products and services to tackle complex business needs. He is focused on key objectives to deliver on strategic goals while also identifying areas for waste reduction opportunities. At Blue, he was instrumental in working on the Identity and Access Management (IAM) Program. This work effort was focused on bringing forth capabilities that provide the right level of protection for stakeholders against malicious users while still providing best-in-class digital experiences. He ensured the solutions had the necessary controls to authenticate a user when attempting to gain access to their healthcare account. B takes the time understand customer needs to produce thoughtfully designed solutions. More importantly, he thinks about the full delivery… from ideation to customer adoption!

Basanta’s leadership at Blue was pivotal in driving complex digital transformation initiatives, including a seamless pharmacy vendor migration that modernized our infrastructure. As a Product Manager, he crafted visionary strategies that balanced long-term business goals with user-centric innovation, transforming market insights into actionable roadmaps. Basanta exceled at aligning executives, engineers, and external partners around shared objectives, turning ambiguity into clarity. His oversight of the React app launch and pharmacy migration highlighted his ability to prioritize scalability, compliance, and risk mitigation while maintaining a relentless focus on user needs. Basanta thrives in dynamic environments, using data to adapt roadmaps and guide decisions without compromising strategic vision. A forward-thinking leader, he builds trust by pairing strategic clarity with empathy—whether rallying cross-functional teams or advocating for solutions that deliver measurable ROI. Basanta doesn’t just manage products; he architects outcomes that redefine industries.

I worked with Basanta for nearly two years. He successfully lead a team of Engineers, UI/UX and Quality Testers to build an amazing web application from scratch. Basanta was great at gathering and refining requirements, creating roadmap, milestones, and communicating with the client and team which was very important. Basanta took ownership of the project and kept everyone on track to deliver incremental value every sprint. I would love to work with Basanta again if I had the chance.

I had the pleasure of working with Basanta at Unify Consulting. Basanta served as the Product Manager and Scrum Master while I led UX design of a web-based application for a well-known game developer. I highly recommend Basanta as a Senior Scrum Master and Product Manager. He possesses excellent communication and facilitation skills, is skilled in conflict resolution, and has a deep understanding of agile principles and the Scrum framework. Basanta's combination of technical and soft skills makes him a valuable asset to any team. He is a trusted partner who can deliver high-quality work, has a strategic mindset, is highly effective engaging with clients to understand high level requirements, can develop product roadmaps, create epics and stories, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. Basanta’s standout qualities are his authenticity, integrity and devotion to honest values. I experienced firsthand how those qualities inspired others and motivated successful relationships. I highly recommend Basanta and believe he would be a valuable asset to any team.

I got an opportunity to work with Basanta during my tenure with T-Mobile. We, as a Team, were in a urgent need of a good scrum master because this program, being critical and complex, was demanding someone who was not only good in agile project management but who also technically sound enough to understand overall system architecture so that he/she could help team in focusing on their tasks in hand. We were lucky to have him join our team as a Scrum Master in those critical times. He has good techno managerial skills. He not only helped in streamlining all the scrum process in no time but also ensured that team gets all the support from other teams to achieve its target. He also was good in managing and communicating to all the stakeholders. He is a good techno-functional-manager/agile champion. I wish him success for his future assignments.

I am a product manager at Blue Shield and Basanta was my scrum master. In large companies that use a lot of contract Dev resources, it is imperative to have a strong scrum master as the group has to storm/form/norm. Basanta led our team with successful & intuitive retrospectives. While I started in September of 2020, we had a strong & high performing scrum team. By the time the project closed in fall of 2021, we were finishing each others sentences. Basanta's leadership was pivotal in directing our team. Imagine how amazing this is considering we were only 1 of 3 teams he was managing. I hope to work w/ Basanta in the future.

It is rare that you come across a rare talent and friend like Basanta. I worked with Basanta as a fellow scrum master on a contract with CMS for a year and found him to be an enthusiastic, knowledgeable, supportive and effective leader. He was someone that I could trust to give me honest feedback about work and he was also there to encourage me when I was going through a difficult time at work. We collaborated with when our teams were dependent on each other and was always eager to help when his help was needed. I still miss our lunches where we would discuss various topics from our personal life to work. As a team member or a leader, Basanta earns my highest recommendation.

I had the opportunity to work with Basanta at T-Mobile for about two years. During my time working with him, Basanta worked on implementing agile processes that helped our team excel with our sprint work. Additionally, he always made sure developers were not blocked and could finish their work on time. Basanta has great communication skills and the ability to help team members succeed and keep morale high. Any team would benefit from having Basanta as a scrum master or project manager.

Basanta is an extremely effective Scrum Master and a strong leader that focuses on creating a high performing team by continuously improving through inspect and adapt techniques. While working with Basanta, he helped us deliver critical projects on time. His skill-set on team management, team health, cross team collaboration, forward thinking attitude is par excellence! Truly an asset for the team.

During my early adaption into "SAFe" agile at Bellese, Basanta coached into understanding the principles of SAFe agile and ceremonies. We worked on the ATDD, test cases test plan which in turn resulted in fewer bugs and issues found. When our organization switched from RTM to Jira, he coached team members on the use and demonstration of some functionality to new Jira users. He is a leader in adapting technologies and helps the team perform better.

Basanta is a scrum master that really focuses on the team and the delivery. Basanta was instrumental in helping our organization not only adopt the agile principles but he was a leader in the adoption.

BK’s professionalism and dedication were crucial in delivering the project on time and with high quality.