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ARSA Infotech · Solutions Architect

Pavan Mankineni

SAP BI / HANA Solution Architect

Seventeen things in the bag. Six of them, nobody asked me to learn.

Solutions Architect at ARSA Infotech — 18+ years across SAP BW, HANA, SAC and Datasphere for enterprise clients in India, Germany and Singapore.

Portrait of Pavan Mankineni
Pavan Mankineni
SAP BI · HANA · SAC · Datasphere
  • 18+Years in SAP
  • 9Enterprise clients
  • 6Business lines
  • 17Tools in the bag
  • 7Certifications/Badges
Career stations · 2006 — today

Seven stations, one through line

From the support desk at Bayer to Datasphere and CDS at Basler — every station is listed with what the work actually was, and what went into the bag there.

Came with the job Picked up on my own
2006 — 2008

Junior on the support desk

Bayer AG · Junior Consultant · India

The work

  • Tickets, start to finish
  • Monitoring the process chains and nightly loads
  • Performance tuning
  • Extending Business Content

Into the bag

  • BW
  • Web applications
2009 — 2013

Onsite, and building the reports

Robert Bosch · BW Developer · Associate Project Manager

The work

  • Onsite coordinator
  • BW development
  • Vendor service level reports
  • Vendor backlog reporting

Into the bag

  • BO tools
  • Xcelsius

This one moved three times. See the arcs.

2014 — 2016

Bosch, then Royal Enfield

Bosch → Royal Enfield · Inventory · India

The work

  • Inventory reporting in BW
  • Bosch first, then Royal Enfield
  • HANA underneath

Into the bag

  • HANA
2017 — 2022

The 25-year-old application

Fresenius · Global Sales Reporting · Germany

The work

  • Global Sales Reporting
  • A 25-year-old ABAP sales application, ERP to BW
  • The old ABAP read end to end, field by field
  • Five years on one thing

Into the bag

  • ABAP
  • SQL
  • HANA SQL
  • Graphical views

Twenty-five years of someone else’s logic, read line by line.

2022 — 2024

My first public sector project

Bundeswehr · BW/4HANA · Planning

The work

  • BW/4HANA build
  • OData behind the front ends
  • Dashboards
  • Planning applications

Into the bag

  • Lumira
  • SDI
2024 — todayOngoing

Keeping a live system moving

Mankiewicz · BW on HANA · SAC

The work

  • BW on HANA
  • SAC dashboards
  • COPA
  • Change requests, week by week

Into the bag

  • Snowflake (self-taught)
  • Databricks (self-taught)
  • Python (self-taught)

Snowflake and Python were never on the statement of work.

2025 — todayOngoing

Datasphere, and the new stack

Basler · Datasphere · CDS

The work

  • Datasphere
  • CDS views
  • Modelling on the newest part of the stack

Into the bag

  • BDC (self-taught)
  • MCP servers (self-taught)
  • AI tools (self-taught)

The MCP servers I wrote on evenings.

International moves

Four flights that shaped the route

2010

IN to DE

My first onsite assignment

2012

DE to SG

Customer trainings and dashboard presentations

2013

SG to IN

End of my first successful deputation

2016

IN to DE

Back to Germany. This time it stuck.

The journey continues

The road just runs off the page — that is on purpose.

Toolset

In the bag

Seventeen tools across the stations above — eleven came with the job, six were picked up unprompted, on evenings and in the gaps.

The full inventory

17 tools · 6 self-taught

In order of acquisition

  • BW
  • Web applications
  • BO tools
  • Xcelsius
  • HANA
  • ABAP
  • SQL
  • HANA SQL
  • Graphical views
  • Lumira
  • SDI
  • Snowflake (self-taught)
  • Databricks (self-taught)
  • Python (self-taught)
  • BDC (self-taught)
  • MCP servers (self-taught)
  • AI tools (self-taught)
Came with the job Picked up on my own

blue came with the job. pencil did not.

Contact

Before the meeting — or instead of one

A direct line for anything BW, HANA, SAC or Datasphere.

Pavan Mankineni · SAP BI / HANA Solution Architect ARSA Infotech · Solutions Architect