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Ashwin Karthikeyan
D365 F&O Technical Consultant
Chennai,TamilNadu
Work Preference
Summary
Accomplished and results-driven Technical Consultant offering 10 years' experience in Dynamics 365 ERP Axapta/F&SCM. Adept at providing end-to-end technical solutions, leading teams, and collaborating with stakeholders to deliver comprehensive solutions. Proven expertise in X++ development, integration using CI/CD, RestAPI, C#, and Azure services. Experienced in business process re-engineering, analysis, and documentation across diverse industries such as Education, Ship Registry, Entertainment, Agriculture, Food Services, Transportation, Retail, and Energy & Petrochemical.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
7
7
End-to-end Implementations
8
8
Official Microsoft Certifications
10
10
years of professional experience
4
4
Languages
Work History
Technical Architect
KPMG, LLP, Financial Services Assurance
London
11.2024 - Current
- Led technical architecture across two engagements, achieving successful go-live for 47 legal entities within a span of 2 years.
- Implemented Azure middleware integrations and Data processing through Azure Cloud, Git and Microsoft Fabric pipelines.
- Enhanced deployment repeatability and environment governance via automated IaC using Bicep.
- Conducted fit-gap analysis to ensure comprehensive validation of technical processes.
- Orchestrated integrations utilizing Azure Logic Apps, Service Bus, Event Grid, and Functions.
- Defined strategies for data management and migration, focusing on DMF optimization.
- Developed solution blueprints for D365 F&O to address stakeholder requirements effectively.
- Provided technical guidance to teams while collaborating with Microsoft and external vendors covering verticals like Property Management (Yavica) and Storage management specific customers
Technical Consultant/Architect (D365 F&O)
EY GDS LLP. Pvt. Ltd.
Chennai, TamilNadu
09.2021 - 11.2024
- Designed and developed a robust solution that combined 3 of the client's major business processes into a single process stream, reducing their process delays by almost 80%, earning most valuable project team member from Microsoft/EY's leadership.
- Collaborated with clients to determine project specifications and scope.
- Developed a new digital process that enabled the customer capture the signatures of their vendors directly into the D365 ERP application with the use of PowerApps and PowerAutomate.
- Enabled communication between multiple external legacy systems with the client's D365 F&O system using various Integration techniques like LogicApps, PowerApps, API integration and Azure Portal/Stack which increased their productivity by a huge margin.
- Full ownership of F&O Technical solution as architect for a client, designed deployment and environment plans, configured branching and pipeline structure for the code base, setup security and policies, all in Azure DevOps and LCS.
Application Development Team Lead
Accenture Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (Avanade)
Chennai
08.2015 - 09.2021
- Longest experience stint of 6 years and 6 Microsoft D365 F&O solutions implementations (Including post implementation support) as a Technical Lead, leading multiple teams of various capacity and became the face of technical delivery for various Europe, US, Canada and Australia based clientele.
- Created a financial calculation tool that drove a client's end‑year closure and ended up as a generic tool in MS app store for Dynamics 365 F&O, along with being a crucial part of multiple other tools (Search Avanade in AppSource).
- First in line to implement Atlas (4.0 and 5.0) excel add‑in for Dynamics 365 systems for data migration and reporting.
- Completely migrated all of a clients paperback reporting structure into D365 SSRS report format that reduced their carbon footprint by about 60% and enabled digital reporting.
- Individually contributed to upgrading multiple legacy AX 2012 R2/R3 on‑prem client systems to the latest D365F&O/AX7 cloud.
- Created a Put‑To‑Wall functionality which enables multiple pick and put operations in warehouse management, which is un‑heard of in any ERP system to date, with the client terminating the support on account of the stability of the newly implemented system with appreciations.
SVC Software Engineer II
Hewlett-Packard GlobalSoft Pvt. Ltd.
Chennai
08.2012 - 08.2015
- Supported the UAT Go‑Live in South Africa ‑ Polokwane/Johannesburg after just 1 year of joining the org as a fresher.
- Single handedly managed the client's on‑premises AX 2012 R3 system including maintenance, installation and configuration.
- First implementation of Data migration using the DMF tool that was introduced back in 2012.
- Coordinated with peers to evaluate and improve software and hardware interfaces.
- Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
Veltech Dr. RR & Dr. SR Technical University
Avadi,Chennai 02.2009 - 01.2013
High School Diploma -
Sri Chaitanya Junior Kalasala
Secunderabad, Telangana 03.2007 - 06.2009
Skills
Adept in D365F&O
Technical Analysis and Architecture Design
Proficient in X, C# and JavaScript
Gap-fit analysis
Request for proposals for multiple clients
Azure Middleware Expertise
Infrastructure as Code Expertise
Integration and Data Migration (Fabric)
Accomplishments
- Instructor for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 and D365 boot camps.
- Tech star awardee at Accenture for the year 2020
- Sparkling star awardee at Accenture for the year 2021
- Ace award winner for the year 2019 at Accenture
- Client co-innovation contest runner up at Accenture for the year 2019
- Multiple SPOT awards in EY for performance excellence, for the year 2022 and 2023
- Vendor (Microsoft) appreciation for being a trusted and well-contributed resource.
Software
Azure Functions
LogicApps
PowerBi
Microsoft Dynamics 365 F&SCM
Certification
MB-700: Microsoft Dynamics 365: Finance and Operations Apps Solution Architect
Languages
English
Tamil
Telugu
Hindi
Interests
Gaming
Listening to music
Open-source software tinkering
Technology surfing
Riding and driving
Timeline
Technical Architect
KPMG, LLP, Financial Services Assurance
11.2024 - Current
MB-700: Microsoft Dynamics 365: Finance and Operations Apps Solution Architect
07-2023
Technical Consultant/Architect (D365 F&O)
EY GDS LLP. Pvt. Ltd.
09.2021 - 11.2024
MB-500: Microsoft Dynamics 365: Finance and Operations Apps Developer
07-2020
MB-300: Microsoft Dynamics 365: Core Finance and Operations
02-2020
MB-900: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Fundamentals
12-2019
AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
12-2019
MB6-894: Development, Extensions, and Deployment for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance
08-2018
Application Development Team Lead
Accenture Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (Avanade)
08.2015 - 09.2021
SVC Software Engineer II
Hewlett-Packard GlobalSoft Pvt. Ltd.
08.2012 - 08.2015
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
Veltech Dr. RR & Dr. SR Technical University
02.2009 - 01.2013
High School Diploma -
Sri Chaitanya Junior Kalasala
03.2007 - 06.2009