Chandra Vulavala
Bengaluru
Summary
Certified SAP Basis Consultant with 14 years of experience in SAP Implementation, administration, operations, and projects. Skilled in NetWeaver architecture, S/4HANA conversion, HEC to RISE migration, OS/DB migration, and SAP HANA & NetWeaver upgrades. Proficient in standalone, distributed, and cluster environments, as well as system copies and high availability setups. Strong expertise in process re-engineering, training, and documentation, complemented by excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
Overview
2027
2027
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Business Process Senior Consultant - SAP BASIS
SAP LABS
Bengaluru
12.2024 - Current
- Joined SAP as part of the COE India team under the Premium Engagement experience.
- Leading Nestlé cutover activities for S/4HANA conversions across ERP with NZDT, MDG, PLM, and HRPY (NZdM) systems.
- Advising and directing Middle East-based customers on Brownfield scenario strategies.
- Driving S/4HANA conversion and private cloud migration initiatives.
- Leading and overseeing S/4HANA, BW/4HANA, and MDG upgrades to the latest versions.
- Conducted landscape technical feasibility checks to help customers understand their current 'as-is' landscape, and assess migration possibilities.
Senior Principal Engineer: SAP BASIS Technical Lead
Dell Technologies
Dubai
03.2023 - 11.2024
- Led the successful S/4HANA Conversion project, transitioning from EHP8 to S/4HANA 2021.
- Led the migration of Critical workloads of DEWA from SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud to SAP RISE.
- Managed end-to-end technical landscape of SAP systems in HEC, including S/4HANA, CRM, BW, and portals, ETD, Content servers, TREX, Kafka, Zookeeper.
- Proficiently managed databases, including HANA with high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) sites, Sybase, and MaxDB.
- Offered expertise in addressing technical matters pertaining to SAP infrastructure including storage, networks, and operating systems.
- Executed technical stack updates of NW 7.4 and 7.5 systems with latest stacks.
- Provided the technical expertise in maintaining the SAP Landscapes.
- Administered SAP systems effectively to ensure compliance with SLA requirements.
- Delivered actionable insights for enhancing system security through monthly review of SAP security notes and conducting vulnerability assessments.
- Maintained Landscape to consistently deliver maximum availability and performance.
- Guided team on operational excellence procedures.
- Conducted vulnerability assessment reviews, planned updates, and led remediation execution.
- Planned and led the DR drill exercise as part of the annual compliance requirements.
Technical Solutions Consultant
Google Cloud India Pvt LTD
- Resolved customer-reported issues by reproducing scenarios and finding root causes, improving systems stability, speed, and user experience.
- SAP BASIS subject matter expert for internal stakeholders in engineering, sales and customer organizations to resolve technical deployment obstacles and improve Google Cloud.
- Advocated Customers Running SAP workloads on Google Cloud Platform and Bare Metal Solutions.
- Resolving SAP systems High Availability (Pacemaker) and Critical Infra issues relevant to compute, storage, network for key SAP Customers running on GCP.
- Collaborate with Third parties SUSE and REDHAT for Critical Cluster issues and help the Customer.
- Analyzing Customer issues, requirements and understanding the problem domain & suggest the alternatives available as a solution.
- Provided technical support for customers utilizing GCE, GKE, and Bare Metal Solutions.
Devops Engineer
SAP Labs India Pvt ltd
- Provisioned, configured and managed the S/4HANA Public Cloud Marketing, Enterprise Cloud applications hosted on Google Cloud platform and HEC and Converged Cloud (Open-Stack).
- S/4HANA Cloud Systems Installations with LAMA, SPC and Best Practices content activation.
- Providing Solutions for implementing different products like Cloud Platform and On Premise, Hybrid Connectivity's and different integration scenarios with SAP and Third-party applications.
- Configuring Web dispatchers and High availability Clusters for the same.
- Cloud connector set up, Configuration.
- Integrated S/4 HANA Cloud and CPI/BTP and On- premises.
Solution Consultant
PRSoft Technology Group
Hyderabad
- Migrated ERP, BW with Oracle to HANA DB.
- EHP upgrades on ECC and patch upgrade on Solution Manager using SUM.
- Installed and configured Sales & Operation planning on HANA.
- Installed and configured SAP MANUFACTURING EXECUTION 15.0.
- Web dispatcher configuration and implemented URL rewriting.
- Managed installation and maintenance of SAP Mobility Platform 3.0 SP6 and Afaria server.
- Relay server set up for both Afaria and SAP Mobility Platform servers.
- Exposure in NetWeaver gateway set up and Fiori issues handling.
- Completed Hana DB installation and configuration, Revision update.
- BW 7.4 installation on HANA and post activities and source systems configurations.
- Installed and configured ECC 6 on EHP's and SCM.
- Solution Manager 7.1 installation and configured managed systems and setup technical monitoring.
- Database administration activities like Backup, Restore and performance.
- Oracle version and patch upgrade from 10.2.0.4 to 11.2.0.3.
Basis Consultant
Capgemini India Pvt. Ltd.
Hyderabad
- Performed SAP OS/DB Migrations.
- Installation and configuration of ECC 6.0 and Solution Manager 7.1, MDM, Web-dispatcher, Portals.
- SAP Router certificate and SAP maintenance certificate installation.
- SAP system storage migration activity.
- Successfully migrated SAP systems from physical servers to virtual servers.
- SSO configuration and Backend system configurations in portal.
- Stack updates on MDM EP SOLMAN BW and IDM.
- BO 4.0 to 4.1 upgrade. Design studio integration, Mobile server configuration for BO.
- Configured Technical Monitoring for MDM and BW systems.
- Backup/Recovery of all Systems in Landscape, which includes OS/DB/SAP.
- Trouble shooting of RFCs, Updates, System logs, ABAP dumps, Outbound and Inbound queues.
Consultant
Fujitsu Consulting India Pvt. Ltd
Pune
- Performed Oracle DB refresh and System copy using BSC tool.
- Performance monitoring analysis.
- Analyses of top time-consuming expensive SQL statements and sending them to ABAP team for further analysis.
- Applying SP stacks using SPAM and SDM tools.
- Weekly EWA Report Analysis and Oracle Table Space management and Oracle patch set installation.
Education
Bachelors - Electronics and Communications Engineering
J.N.T.U Affiliated College
HyderabadSkills
- S/4HANA Conversion
- OS/DB Migrations
- Cloud Migrations
- ITIL and Change Management
- Capacity Planning
- SAP Installations and Upgrades
- SAP Implementations
- SUSE Expertise
- SAP Technical Consulting
- High Pressure Situations Handling
- Hyperscalar Infrastructure Proficiency
- Pacemaker Clusters
- Cloud Engineering -GCP
- SAP Solution Design and Delivery
- Project management
Certification
- SAP Certified - Solution Architect - SAP BTP
- AI Agents fundamentals from Hugging Face
- NVIDIA-Certified Associate: AI Infrastructure and Operations
- SAP Certified Technology Associate - SAP HANA 2.0 (SPS04)
- SAP Certified Technology Specialist - SAP S/4HANA Conversion and SAP System Upgrade, 2019-01-01
- SAP Certified Technology Associate - OS/DB Migration for SAP NetWeaver 7.5
- Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect
- AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate
Timeline
Business Process Senior Consultant - SAP BASIS
SAP LABS
12.2024 - Current
Senior Principal Engineer: SAP BASIS Technical Lead
Dell Technologies
03.2023 - 11.2024
Technical Solutions Consultant
Google Cloud India Pvt LTD
Devops Engineer
SAP Labs India Pvt ltd
Solution Consultant
PRSoft Technology Group
Basis Consultant
Capgemini India Pvt. Ltd.
Consultant
Fujitsu Consulting India Pvt. Ltd
Bachelors - Electronics and Communications Engineering
J.N.T.U Affiliated College