./Harini Gunabalan

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Professional Experience


SAP SE, Walldorf, Germany
Product Manager
September 2017 - Present
Work Description:
  • As a part of SAP Cloud Platform Core Product management team, hold a T-shaped profile with an overview of the platform and deep dive into: SAP HANA XS Advanced development, SAP Document Center and SAP Cloud Platform Document Service



SAP SE, Walldorf, Germany
Software Developer
June 2016 - August 2017
Work Description:
  • Contributed to the development of SAP Cloud Platform, Metering & Reporting Service.
  • Along with my team, implemented a Central Reporting Hub, which collects usage information from the metering service that in turn fetches usage data from different data-centers of SAP Cloud Platform. Click here for a similar open source project - Cloud Foundry Abacus
  • Persisted metering data into SAP HANA relational DB, and implemented an application to generate views that aggregate metering information to be consumed from CLoud Cockpit by cloud platform developers
  • Worked on SAP’s BusinessObjectsCloud, an analytics product, to connect to difference data sources including HANA instances in different landscapes through SAP Web Dispatcher (reverse proxy).
  • Implementation of an auto-scaler as a part of the Feedback driven development of the Cloudwave project , an EU funded research project.
  • Presented SAP's proof-of-concept of FDD in 5th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing



SAP Research, Darmstadt, Germany
Master Thesis Research Student
December 2015 - May 2016
Feedback Driven Development (FDD) in Cloud Applications
Research work focusing on Cloud Platform and Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring data for modelling metrics in order to identify root cause (Application/Infrastructure) of detected anomalies and provide feedback for Cloud Developers in Development Environment. It involved design and implementation of an efficient platform level auto-scaler on Cloud Foundry. This thesis work is a Collaboration with the Software Technology Group, TU Darmstadt and SAP Research, Germany.



SAP Research, Darmstadt, Germany
Graduate Student Researcher on the HANA Cloud Platform
July 2015 - November 2015
Work Description:
  • Developed Java and Web Applications on the SAP Cloud Platform.
  • Worked on Software Development Tools (SAP Web IDE).
  • Eclipse Plugin Development for Java Developers on the Hana Cloud Platform, based on the data obtained from the SAP Web Analytics famework. It produces clickstreams of all the UI(SAP UI5/HTML5) components of the existing Web Applications.
  • In the Eclipse PDE, focussed on the OSGi specification: Eclipse 4 Application Model, Parts, Views, Editors etc. Developed Eclipse 4 RCP plugins for visualizing the analytics data for the Cloud Developers.
  • Research work as a part of the Feedback driven development of the Cloudwave project , an EU funded research project. The research focuses on mapping the source code artifacts to the set of operation Data points that are collected by logs/analytics of the cloud Applications. The logs are retrieved using Elastic Search standing queries and mapped using static/dynamic code analysis.



SAP SE, Global Headquarters - Walldorf, Germany
Intern, Center of Expertise (CoE), EMEA FI HCM/EPM
April 2015 - June 2015
Work Description:
  • Performance Analysis of SAP System metrics such as number of work processes, CPU consumption, Paging & Memory Utilization, Queue Lengths, Sessions in each of the Application Servers at the production environment.
  • Analyzing MDX queries in BPC on HANA, snapshot overviews for each of the Application Servers, Error (Dumps and Application Logs) messages, and Performance Statistics Reports
  • Service order processing in the SAP CRM system, performed Solution Manager Tasks connecting to Citrix systems, implemented SAP Notes, Trained on SAP UI5, Fiori UX Apps, and Software Development on HANA.
  • Performance Optimization of Java and ABAP code.



Deloitte Consulting India Private Limited, Bangalore, India
Business Technology Analyst – ABAP Developer
June 2011 - September 2013
Work Description:
  • Worked as an ABAP software developer to provide custom solutions to the clients (from USA, Germany and France).
  • Developed RICEF objects in ABAP including Module Pool programming, high complex Enhancements and Conversions, Interactive ALV reports, Adobe Forms, Smart Forms, HR ABAP and OO ABAP objects.
  • Worked for an upgrade project that involved migration and integration of the legacy SAP ECC 4.7 systems to SAP ECC 6.0
  • Gained Good Understanding of end to end core business process areas such as the Sales and Distribution module (SD), Financial Accounting (FI) Material Management (MM), Human Resources (HR), Plant Maintenance (PM) and Production Planning (PP) modules.
  • Worked for 5 different client projects based on the following industries: Consumer and Industrial Products Service Area, Health Care Providers and Insurance Service Area.
  • Exhibited good communication skills coordinating with the onsite team, delivered tasks with minimal defects an high quality within strict deadlines.
  • Good understanding and efficient transformation of the functional requirements specification to technical specifications. Raising Issues/Risk Identification at an early phase.