Nikhil Pashupath Guruprasanna

SAP BASIS/HANA Consultant with 8+ years of experience in delivering SAP greenfield and brownfield projects. Work experience in the roles of individual contributor and solution architect. Expertise in SAP/HANA Landscape design and deployments, SAP HANA Support, SAP OS/DB Migrations and performance tuning.

ICCE (IIHT certified cloud expert)

SAP Technology Consulting
Installations, upgrades, migration road-maps. Landscape design/redesign, technical blueprints and presentations, architectural diagrams (MS Visio), complex issues resolution and RCA.

SAP HANA Consulting
HANA TDI systems sizing, design and build, HA-DR Setup.

SAP Performance Tuning
Proactive tuning of SAP App, DB, OS, networks and virtual stacks. Address ad-hoc performance issues, go-live issues, data load/post migration issues.

HA/DR Solutions
HPE [Serviceguard], VMWare [HA, FT, SRM] and SAP [HANA SystemReplication, Storage Connector]

SAP HANA CoE Engineer (01/2020 - Present)
DevOps engineer for HPE SAP HANA Appliances including design, development and lifecycle services.
Develop update lifecycle services for HPE Appliance.
Performance tuning assessments of customer landscapes.
Design and deployment of High-Availability solutions.
Address reactive cases of HANA DB issues for HPE Appliance customers.

DevOps Cycle (2022-Preset)
Test Performance metrics on HPE Appliances.
Fine tune the parameters for better performance and stable system.
Develop LifeCycle services for HPE Appliances to ensure the systems are updated with minimal downtime.
Create build and upgrade procedures for HPE Appliances.

LabCorp [Capacity Upgrade] (2022)
Capacity Upgrade of SAP HANA Infrastructure from 9TB to 15TB HPE Appliance.
Design the Project plan with minimal disruption to business and ensure near zero downtime.

Target [Project - HA solution] (2021)
Design and Build High Availability solutions for SAP HANA with ServiceGuard.

Danfoss [Project - Health Assessment] (2021)
Performance tuning of SAP HANA Appliance.
Check the health status of all the components.
Ensure the system is configured with best practice parameters.
Tune the DB & OS components to ensure system is stable and delivers better performance.

FORD Motor Company [Project - HANA Implementation] (2020)
Design and build S4HANA Solution with High Availability.
Design High Availability solution for HANA with ServiceGuard.


HPE SAP Consulting (01/2015 – 12/2019)
Analyze customers' as-is SAP landscape and interfaces to provide roadmaps to SoH/S4HANA/BWoH.
Solution SAP HANA TDI models with SAP certified TDI building blocks.
Draft Migration blueprints, High Level Design/Low Level Design documents.
Deployments for Scale-up/Scale-Out systems on virtual/bare-metal platforms to meet SAP HCMT KPIs for HANA TDI.
Source system tuning and data cleansing, target system installations, configuration, migration PoCs, landscape migration, migration tuning on mock systems, Production cutover planning, go-live services and post-go live support (hyper-care).


GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) [Project: HANA2] (2019)
Derive TDI building blocks around 'fit-into-existing infrastructure' approach of GSK.
Design of Scale-up and Scale-out virtualized systems on VMWare for the areas of virtual stack, OS, Networks (flat), Storage (simplified).
Provide configuration guidelines around shared storage, HANA Storage Connector APIs, NFS specifications, Host-Auto failover capabilities etc.
HANA DR builds with automatic failover capabilities of HPE ServiceGuard Cluster software.

HPEIT [Project: S4HANA Implementation] (2018-2019)
SAP S4HANA Implementation, installing S4HANA 1809 and migration from Oracle DB.
SOLMAN setup for monitoring, alerting and EWA reporting.
Go-Live Support for SAP Basis activities.

Canberra HANA Enterprise Cloud (CHEC) [Project: SAP OS/DB Migration] (2017-2018)
ECC, BW & EP implementation, go-live and support.

Darussalam [Project: vHANA Implementation] (2016)
Design and implementing virtual HANA infrastructure.
VMware HA and SRM configuration for DR Setup for HANA and Applications.

Mabe [Project: ERP Migration] (2016)
Provide roadmap for ERP Source system on Oracle DB [12 TB] to ERP on Oracle RAC system builds (SAP Application Layer and Oracle RAC DB Layer).
Installation of Oracle RAC Databases.
Production cut-over planning and execution within stipulated downtime window. Go- live service checks including consistency of migrated tables.

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) [Project : SAP OS/DB Migration] (2015)
SRM & CRM Migration and Integration.
XI/PI Migration and Integration.
Portal System Migration and Integration.
C Folder Migration and Integration.
CRM Java component upgrade using SUM.
Update of any patches in system SAP R/3 (XI / SRM /EP/ Cfolder/CRM).

ICCE (IIHT certified cloud expert) (2015)
by IIHT

RHCSA [EX200] (Red Hat Certified System Administrator) (2021)
by RedHat

RHCSE [EX294] (Red Hat Certified System Engineer) (2022)
by RedHat

Presentation
Documentation
Communication
Work ethics
Quality conscious
Organized
Attention to detail
Team player
Quick Learner