Damir Horvat

SAFe® 6.0 Practice Consultant · Germany

DAMIR
HORVAT

Driving Agile excellence
at enterprise scale.

Experienced SAFe® 6.0 Program Consultant, Release Train Engineer, Scrum Master (SMC®), Agile Coach and Delivery Manager — with a proven track record in leading successful agile transformations across diverse industries. Proficient in German and English. Advanced user and Administrator of Azure DevOps and Atlassian Suite.

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Professional Journey

Work Experience

Mar 2025 — Present · ~1 yr

SAP

Contract

Release Train Engineer | Agile Coach in SAFe®

Driving Agile and Lean excellence to streamline ART value delivery and enhance transparency through objective metrics. Leading key ceremonies — PI Planning, PO Sync, Coach Sync — fostering collaboration and alignment. Proactively managing risks, dependencies, and continuous improvement initiatives. Acting as key connector across organizational groups to enhance Business Agility.

Scaled AgilePI PlanningART LeadershipBusiness AgilityLean Practices

Mar 2022 — Jan 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos

CARIAD

Contract

Release Train Engineer | Senior Scrum Master | Agile Coach in SAFe®

Managing Scrum teams within Agile Release Train in SAFe® environment. Working closely with Product Management, Product Owners, RTEs and stakeholders to ensure strategy and execution alignment. Coaching teams in designing and improving agile structures. Facilitating ART events including PI Planning, system demos, and inspect and adapt sessions.

SAFe®ScrumART FacilitationTeam CoachingStakeholder Mgmt

May 2019 — Jan 2025 · 5 yrs 9 mos

GTP Schäfer

Freelance

Scrum Master / Business Analyst / QA Engineer

Creating and managing SDLC using Agile methodologies, developing agile frameworks, managing and maintaining Scrum cycles, analysing and writing requirements, quality assurance of software, and customer support.

SDLCBusiness AnalysisQARequirements

Nov 2021 — Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Cognism

Part-time

Agile Coach | Jira Consultant

Improving Scrum processes, administrating and consulting Jira & Confluence instances, supporting implementation of the Spotify model, coaching and consulting in agile software development.

Jira AdminConfluenceSpotify ModelAgile Coaching

Sep 2021 — Mar 2022 · 7 mos

Specure

Contract

Scrum Master | Agile Coach

Improving Scrum process, administrating Jira instance, coaching on Agile principles, supporting delivery of products.

ScrumJiraAgile Coaching
Credentials

Licenses & Certifications

SAFe — Scaled Agile, Inc.

Achieving Responsible AI with SAFe®

Issued Nov 2025

SAFe — Scaled Agile, Inc.

SAFe® Ready to Train

Issued Feb 2025

SAFe — Scaled Agile, Inc.

Certified SAFe® 6 Practice Consultant

Issued Feb 2025 · Expires Feb 2026

SAFe — Scaled Agile, Inc.

Certified SAFe® 5 Agilist

Issued Nov 2020

Coursera

Agile with Atlassian Jira

Issued Mar 2020

Vabro.ai / VMEdu

Scrum Master Certified (SMC)

Issued Jan 2020

Vabro.ai / VMEdu

Scrum Fundamentals Certified (SFC)

Issued Dec 2019

Academic Background

Education

University of Zagreb / Sveučilište u Zagrebu

Master’s Degree — Information Technology, Faculty of Organisation and Informatics

Theoretical competencies for managing business and information systems within a company. Understanding contemporary market dynamics and effective management of business processes through information technology.

2008 – 2010

Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz

Master’s Degree — Information Technology (Erasmus Exchange)

Abroad semester via Erasmus programme. Topics: German language (A1–A2), Management of Technology, Data Modelling and Database Systems.

2009 – 2010

University of Zagreb / Sveučilište u Zagrebu

Bachelor of Informatics — Business Systems

Advanced use of information technology, implementation of systems, basic business principles and business processes.

2005 – 2008

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