SHASHIKANTH YADIYAPUR
Medtronic
Atlanta,GA
1
Certification
20
years of professional experience
Versatile SAP Technical Leader and Platform Architect specializing in global SAP infrastructure and high-availability architecture. Directed S/4HANA version upgrades, greenfield implementations, and SAP RISE deployments while enhancing system uptime through automated HA/DR clustering solutions and proactive security measures. Delivered exceptional system support by leveraging technical expertise in SAP Basis consulting across diverse environments.
Work History
Sr. SAP BASIS Consultant / PLATFORM SOLUTION ENGG
10 Years 2 Months- Orchestrated full life-cycle S/4HANA RISE greenfield deployments and cloud migrations; provisioned tenants, configured secure BTP connectivity, and managed third-party services in hybrid AWS/Azure environments.
- Architected and configured enterprise SAP BTP services, including Integration Suite/CPI, SAC, Datasphere/DWC, IAS/IPS, Business Application Studio, and SAP Cloud Connectors.
- Designed and deployed secure corporate SSO/MFA integrations across BTP subaccounts using centralized identity providers including Okta and SAP IAS.
- Led full lifecycle implementation of SAP Enterprise Threat Detection (ETD)—including agent setup, forensic log ingestion, custom patterns, and real-time alerts—and execute automated vulnerability scanning via SAP Security Bridge and PROTECT4S.
- Remediate high and critical security vulnerabilities (CVE/CVSS) by collaborating across cybersecurity, infrastructure, and application teams.
- Administered, patched, and performance-tuned HANA, MSSQL, and Oracle databases to eliminate processing bottlenecks and ensure audit readiness.
- Remediated high and critical security vulnerabilities (CVE/CVSS) by collaborating with cybersecurity, infrastructure, and application teams to strengthen security posture.
- Manage maintenance windows, production changes, kernel patches, SAP Notes application, parameter modifications, and security certificate renewals.
- Engineered and maintained robust high-availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) clusters using SUSE HAWK and Microsoft Failover Cluster Manager to support database mirroring and Always-On configurations.
- Administered, patched, and performance-tune HANA, MSSQL, and Oracle databases to neutralize processing bottlenecks and maintain complete audit readiness.
- Deliver Selective Data Transition (SDT) for phased S/4HANA migrations, maintaining system uptime through scripted pre/post-refresh cleanups and client copies.
Sen SAP BASIS Consultant
6 Years 8 Months- Spearheaded 5 major live database migrations to SAP HANA via Database Migration Option (DMO) alongside core Oracle upgrades from 10g to 12c.
- Managed a large-scale data center migration project, moving over 150 SAP instances from legacy HPUX environments to virtualized Red Hat Enterprise Linux (SDDC) architectures.
- Designed landscape-wide single sign-on (SSO) and Secure Network Communications (SNC) integrations across SAP Portal, BW, ECC, and CRM.
- Administered SAP Java stacks and Web Dispatcher topologies, ensuring effective load balancing, reverse proxy routing, and SSL offloading.
- Enforced systems compliance with SOX and GxP standards by executing detailed IQOQ documentation and validation scripts.
SAP BASIS Consultant
2 Years 7 Months- Delivered 24x7 production support and BASIS administration for client landscapes, ensuring optimal performance of ECC, BI, EP, PI, and CRM.
- Executed software installations, system refreshes, kernel patching, and component updates while troubleshooting spool issues across AIX, Solaris, and Linux environments.
- Managed corporate directory services through LDAP integration and established corporate SNC and SSL certificate trust configurations.
- Administered corporate directory services using LDAP integration, corporate SNC, and SSL certificate trust configurations.
- Maintained technical documentation, validation scripts, and SOPs to satisfy stringent internal and external regulatory audits.
Education
Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
Skills
SAP S/4HANA Greenfield Implementation
Landscape Sizing & Resilient Architecture
SAP RISE Private Cloud Deployments
S/4HANA Version-to-Version Upgrades
SAP Lifecycle Tools
SAP BTP Landscape Configuration
Integration Frameworks
Multi-Cloud Engineering
SAP Enterprise Threat Detection (ETD)
Vulnerability Management
SAP Cloud ALM Technical Monitoring
Audit Readiness Compliance
Certification
- SAP Certified Technology Associate – SAP HANA 2.0
- SAP Certified Technology Specialist – S/4HANA Conversion & Upgrade
- SAP NetWeaver (XI/PI)
- ITIL 2.0 Certified
Timeline
Sr. SAP BASIS Consultant / PLATFORM SOLUTION ENGG
Medtronic
07.2016 - CurrentRead More
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Johnson & Johnson
10.2009 - 06.2016Read More
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Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from Mechanical Engineering
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