Hari Prasath R
Software Engineer
Bengaluru
Summary
SAS Admin/Analyst with 8+ years of experience in SAS administration and programming. Expertise in all aspects of SAS, including installation, configuration, testing, documentation, and server maintenance. Familiar with R, JMP, TAMR, and Trifacta platform administration at a basic level. Managed SAS Admin/Ops team as an SME/Product Owner, consistently delivering requirements on time and maintaining stable platforms for business. Strong communication skills and direct involvement in client/business discussions. Eager to learn advanced concepts and work with cloud-based platforms. Hands-on experience with AWS.
Overview
2025
2025
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Engineer II
Eli Lilly
03.2022 - Current
- Product owner for SAS Grid environments along with JMP and some Data Wrangling tools like TAMR, Trifacta.
- Worked on Deploying SAS Grid on AWS environment and migrated users from On-prem to AWS Grid.
- Worked on POC project in Deploying and Exploring SAS Viya 4.0
- Lead various platform and software upgrades
- Fixed major issues with the platform to help business in completing the FDA submissions on time.
Application Development Senior Analyst
Accenture
12.2020 - 02.2022
- SAS Analytics platform is Grid architecture setup in Linux environment
- This platform consists of 3 metadata servers, 2 Web tier servers and 5 LSF Grid nodes
- Leading a team of 4 members as SME to guide the team to be on track with the deliverables
- Troubleshooting issues with external data source connectivity such as Databricks, Redshift, Oracle, SQL
- Routine stop/start of the SAS and LSF services during preventive maintenance period
- License update for the environment on yearly basis
- Providing access to the platform for new users who have recently joined the statistical team
- Monitoring scripts in shell to monitor various behavior of the servers like storage availability
- Using ServiceNow tool to track the efforts and to address the issues on time
- Citrix Migration: Users were using SAS EG and other SAS applications from Citrix environment
- Business had a request to migrate the Citrix platform to new windows servers
- Helped in smooth migration of SAS applications on new Citrix platform
- Install and Config of SAS Applications on new Citrix platform was taken care
- M3 to M7 migration: Business had a request to migrate current SAS 9.4 M3 environment to SAS 9.4 M7
- Owned the entire migration from beginning and planned to complete the migration on time
- Multiple teams were involved and migration was successful
Senior Programmer Analyst
Mindtree
09.2019 - 12.2020
- SAS Analytics platform is Grid architecture setup in Linux environment
- This platform consists of a metadata server, Web tier server and 8 LSF Grid nodes
- Leading a team of 5 members to guide the team to be on track with the deliverables
- Setting up connections to external Database from SAS Grid using unixODBC and tnsora
- Troubleshooting issues with external data source connectivity such as Netezza, Yellowbrick, Oracle, SQL
- Routine stop/start of the SAS and LSF services during preventive maintenance period
- License update for the environment on yearly basis
- Password update for the service accounts present on the platform
- Providing access to the platform for new users who have recently joined the statistical team
- Monitoring scripts in shell to monitor various behavior of the servers like storage availability
- Developed SAS macros for the bulk load and unload functionality of the Yellowbrick database from SAS
- Using Remedyforce tool to track the efforts and to address the issues on time
Associate
Cognizant Technologies Solution
2 2016 - 9 2019
- SAS Analytical platform is Grid architecture setup in Linux environment
- This platform consists of a clustered metadata server, high availability horizontal/vertical clustered Web tier servers and 13 LSF Grid nodes
- Analyze and install customized business solutions for new implementations and upgrades for Amgen
- Installing/Configuring various versions of SAS and platform LSF from IBM
- Migration of entire platform to different setup as per business requirements
- Performed migration of SAS reports from one environment to other
- Setting up connections to external Database of CDW, CDMS data residing on Oracle, SQL, Redshift, Teradata and Hadoop from SAS Grid
- Troubleshooting issues with external data source connectivity such as Hadoop, SQL, Oracle, etc
- Routine stop/start of the SAS and LSF services during preventive maintenance period
- Monitoring scripts in shell to monitor various behavior of the servers like storage availability
- License update for the environment on yearly basis
- Password update for the service accounts present on the platform
- Providing access to the platform for new users who have recently joined the statistical team
- Handled the environment with GxP practices
- Most familiar with the GCP and GMP to ensure the safety of life science products
- Used EDMQ and CDOCS for the quality approvals of the documents and any new implementation
- Involved in documentations related to the platform such as design specification, requirement specification, FS, DDS and any new requirement from the client to the platform
- Experience with ALM tool to track/capture each steps on our implementation of new requirement through each environments (Development → Test → Production)
- Used service now tool to track the efforts and to maintain the SLA in addressing the issues
- Also used change management process to record any changes to be performed on the platform with necessary approvals and documents
SAS Admin/Analyst
Cognizant Technologies Solution
02.2016 - 09.2019
- Installing/Configuring various versions of SAS and applying hot fixes
- Routine stop/start of the SAS services during preventive maintenance period
- Providing access to the platform for new users who have recently joined the BI team
- Installation of various ODBC’s and drivers to access data from external sources
- Handled the sales application data of the client
- Data is processed from three different sources and published to business after the quality check
- Experience in handling data from different data sources like Oracle, Redshift, Teradata databases as well as MS Excel
- Automated the quality check of the data by comparing it with the previous week’s data using SAS program which trigger an email with all the required details
- Involved in processing the requirements of the client and proactively generated different reports which might have an impact on the business and received accolades on the same
SAS Analyst
Cognizant Technologies Solution
02.2016 - 09.2019
- SCA is a report which contains the customer and study details
- Data is read from oracle database, filters are applied as per business requirements
- Processed data is written into excel using SAS ODS and excel reports are published to business
- Gathered client requirements and provided reporting solutions
- Collaborated with different teams to fix the problems occurred during the testing of new functionalities
- Recommended optimal solutions to business analysts and clients in project review and requirement gathering meetings
- Supervised Periodic quality review team in order to ensure high quality compliance as expected by the management
Education
B.E - Mech
Panimalar Engineering College
01.2011 - 01.2015
Class XII - undefined
Cambridge Matriculation Higher Secondary School
01.2010 - 01.2011
Class X - undefined
Cambridge Matriculation Higher Secondary School
01.2008 - 01.2009
Skills
SAS Admin
SAS GRID
SAS Viya
Base SAS
SAS Management console/SAS Environment Manager
Oracle/Redshift
SQL
SAS Studio/SAS Enterprise Guide
UNIX/LINUX
AWS Services
Awards
- Unstoppable award for the automation done for the client benefit.
- Awarded Delivery Excellence from client for taking ownership of the project and completed it on time.
- Awarded Gold Medal for the best academic performance throughout the engineering.
Certification
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Timeline
Senior Engineer II
Eli Lilly
03.2022 - Current
Application Development Senior Analyst
Accenture
12.2020 - 02.2022
Senior Programmer Analyst
Mindtree
09.2019 - 12.2020
SAS Admin/Analyst
Cognizant Technologies Solution
02.2016 - 09.2019
SAS Analyst
Cognizant Technologies Solution
02.2016 - 09.2019
B.E - Mech
Panimalar Engineering College
01.2011 - 01.2015
Class XII - undefined
Cambridge Matriculation Higher Secondary School
01.2010 - 01.2011
Class X - undefined
Cambridge Matriculation Higher Secondary School
01.2008 - 01.2009
Associate
Cognizant Technologies Solution
2 2016 - 9 2019