Siddharth Shenolikar
Pune
Summary
SAP BI Platform Lead (BO) with 15+ years of experience administering, supporting, and optimizing SAP BO BI 4.x platforms in enterprise environments. Strong expertise in installation, upgrades, migrations, security administration, performance tuning, and troubleshooting across DEV, QA, and PROD. Proven ability to maintain high availability, stability, and compliance for mission-critical BI systems.
Proven leader in platform strategy, operations, governance, and modernization.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Lead SAP BO Administrator
Vivicta Private Limited
Pune
01.2015 - Current
- Administer SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.x platforms across DEV, QA, and PROD environments.
- Perform installations, upgrades, migrations, SPs, and patching with minimal downtime.
- Manage CMC administration including ~10000 users, groups, roles, access levels, and folders.
- Monitor and tune CMS, FRS, Web Intelligence, and Adaptive Processing Servers.
- Configure and support report scheduling, publications, and alerts.
- Troubleshoot authentication, performance, and job failures; perform root cause analysis.
- Coordinate with BASIS, DBAs, network, and infrastructure teams.
- Implement and test backup, restore, and disaster recovery procedures.
- Maintain technical documentation, SOPs, and operational runbooks.
QlikSense Administrator
KESKO Oyj
01.2022 - 12.2025
- Administer QlikSense platforms across DEV, QA, and PROD environments.
- Perform installations, upgrades, migrations, SPs, and patching with minimal downtime.
- Manage security for both QMC and HUB.
- Perform deployments to transfer reports from one environment to the other.
- Manage vizlib & other 3rd party extensions.
Senior BO Administrator
KPIT Cummins
Pune
01.2011 - 01.2015
- Handle planning and implementation of end-to-end SAP Business Objects product suite.
- Manage mission critical systems of Top-tier clients of Business Objects.
- Provide back-end support to engineers by helping them analyze and implement customer requirements.
- Identifying and reporting bugs detected in the product-to-Product Group for hot fix based on severity of the problem.
- Testing SAP Business Objects Hot Fixes, Service Packs on Business Objects Products.
- Provide training and Knowledge Transition about different technologies to all members of the team.
- Technical and Process documentation for future references.
- Troubleshoot issues related to installation, deployment, web server configuration, scheduling, rights management, and performance tuning.
- Create/Approve Knowledgebase articles and release them to the customer.
Education
Bsc. - Computer Science
Pune University
Skills
- SAP BusinessObjects BI 4x
- Installation and upgrade
- Migration and patching
- SAP BI security
- Performance tuning and monitoring
- Backup and restore
- Disaster recovery planning
- Windows Server management
- Authentication management
- Application server management
- Incident and problem management
- Change management processes
- Qlik Sense administration and upgrades
Secondary Technical Skills
- Qlik Sense Administration
- Qlik Sense upgrade & migration
Leadership Highlights
- End-to-end ownership of BI platform roadmap and operations
- Leadership of onshore/offshore BI teams
- Executive stakeholder engagement
- SLA, KPI, and cost optimization management
- Governance, audit readiness, and risk management
Certification
• Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
• Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator
• MS AZ-900, Microsoft Azure Fundamental
• Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator
• MS AZ-900, Microsoft Azure Fundamental
Timeline
QlikSense Administrator
KESKO Oyj
01.2022 - 12.2025
Lead SAP BO Administrator
Vivicta Private Limited
01.2015 - Current
Senior BO Administrator
KPIT Cummins
01.2011 - 01.2015
Bsc. - Computer Science
Pune University