Curriculum Vitae
Ravikumar Soni
SAP BTP / Fiori Architect
Canada · working across Canada and the US
SAP Certified senior Fiori consultant with 12+ years leading SAP Fiori, BTP and SAPUI5 implementations. Deep experience in the seam between S/4HANA and the tools around it — CDS views, Fiori Elements, extensions and adaptations, Screen Personas, and custom SAPUI5 apps — delivered across food distribution, mining, healthcare and consulting.
Experience
- Apr 2023 – Present
SAP BTP / Fiori Architect
Mindfore Inc. · Houston, TX — onsite at Porky Products, New Jersey
- Build SAPUI5 custom Fiori apps with the core team on the Business Application Studio platform.
- Delivered 15+ fully custom apps across finance and sales & distribution.
- Activated and enabled 100+ standard Fiori apps.
- Hands-on with Fiori adaptations, CDS views and Fiori Elements apps.
- Mar 2020 – Mar 2023
SAP UX Solution Architect
Digital Personas
Delivery for a large Australian conglomerate
- Led a 30+ person team spanning Fiori/UI5 front end and ABAP/CDS back end.
- Owned solution development, delivery and maintenance for the client.
- Ran the S/4HANA 2020 Fiori migration plus 30+ new complex SAPUI5 apps.
- 40+ custom apps delivered — an estimated $5–10M in customer value, under 5% defects.
- Activated 500+ standard S/4HANA apps in phases; apps used by 1000+ staff.
- Replaced legacy processes end-to-end: partner onboarding, maintenance, requisition and quality management.
- Feb 2017 – Mar 2020
Mobile Developer Lead II
Philips Healthcare Services
- Founded the global Fiori team; delivered against demand from Philips worldwide.
- Part of the DevOps team for design, implementation, L3 operations and training.
- Acted as Fiori architect on complex integration and implementation problems.
- Built complex SAP Personas flavors for mobile — barcode and photo capture.
- Delivered 20+ custom Fiori apps, 20+ Personas flavors and 50+ standard Fiori apps.
- Star Employee Award 2017; top performance ratings in years one and two.
- Apr 2014 – Feb 2017
Senior Consultant
KPMG Services
- Led and executed enterprise app projects across SAP and non-SAP platforms.
- Founded the mobile technology team within KPMG India.
- Built a Cordova barcode-scanning Fiori app for SAP EWM bin-to-bin transfers.
- Owned the full cycle — presales, RFC/tender analysis, workshops, CCB approval, go-live support.
- Delivered 5 end-to-end onsite projects (~30 mobile apps) for Middle East clients.
- Highest (1-star) performance rating two years running.
- Jul 2010 – Apr 2012
Software Engineer — Blackberry & Android
Elegant Microweb · Sunshine Infotech · Infostretch Solutions · Ahmedabad, India
- Built the Burrp restaurant & events search app on Blackberry as the sole developer.
- Developed a Blackberry mobile KPI dashboard product and a graphical BI tool.
- Shipped recreational, directory and community apps across Blackberry and Android.
Selected projects
Field Visit App
Porky Products · SAPUI5 (custom)
Field reps capture visits with English/Spanish translation and per-visit comments.
EDI Fulfillment Tracker
Porky Products · SAPUI5 (custom)
Tracks incoming iDocs and documents; JSON/XML/PDF viewer and a document-flow tree.
Order Entry App
Porky Products · SAPUI5 (custom)
Three-page shopping-cart layout for placing orders.
One-Click Notification Flow
US water utility · SAP Screen Personas
Triggers notification and service-order creation in one click with minimal input.
EWM Barcode Scanner
Kuwait furniture retailer · SAPUI5 + Cordova
Warehouse inventory, bin-to-bin transfers, stock graphs, complaints and reorder.
Create PR App (SAP + Hybris)
Australian mining company · SAPUI5 (custom)
Three-screen PR create/change with smart table and filter; material and service items.
Supply Tracking Suite
Australian mining company · SAPUI5 (custom)
Two apps for manifests, GIs/GDs, inbound goods and assignments — complex line items.
Village Notification App
Australian mining company · SAPUI5 (custom)
Single-screen mobile notification creation with attachments and auto-suggestions.
Vendor Onboarding Apps
Australian mining company · SAPUI5 (custom)
Registration requests, certificate/proof uploads and approval tracking for vendors.
PM Fiori Elements Adaptations
Australian mining company · Fiori Elements
Adapted 6 standard PM apps for custom search and actions across notifications and orders.
Standard Fiori App Extensions
Australian mining company · Fiori extension framework
Heavily extended My Inbox, My Timesheet and Find Maintenance Notification.
Rapid Fiori Deployment
Australian mining company · Standard S/4HANA apps
400 standard apps deployed across PM, MM and QM.
HANA Smart Business KPIs
Philips Global · HANA Smart Business, Fiori
KPI apps for sales-order fulfillment issues and material availability via the KPI modeler.
Finance Reporting Fiori Rollout
Philips Global · Embedded BW, Fiori, WebDynpro
Led 13 standard finance apps to global market, including a new embedded BW system.
B2C Rewards App
Kuwait furniture vendor · Android, iOS, PHP, OData
Fetches and shows customer reward points from SAP.
Burrp
Network18 · Blackberry (native)
End-to-end development of a local restaurant and events search app.
A fuller list of 24 projects is available on request.
Skills
SAP BTP
- Business Application Studio (5 yrs)
- WebIDE Full-Stack / Personal (7 yrs)
- VS Code UI5 tooling (2 yrs)
- Work Zone & Launchpad deployment
- Destination & Connectivity
Fiori & SAPUI5
- SAPUI5 development (9 yrs)
- Fiori Elements (4 yrs)
- Rapid deployment of standard apps (9 yrs)
- UI / CDS annotations (3 yrs)
- Fiori extensions & adaptations (7 yrs)
- Smart controls
CDS & ABAP
- CDS views — consumption, basic, composite
- Metadata extensions for UI annotations
- CRUD OData services
- ABAP programming & debugging (basic)
SAP Screen Personas
- Personas 2.0 / 3.0 SP16 (5 yrs)
- Slipstream Engine — responsive flavors
- Fiori Theme Designer
Fiori Administration
- Pages & Spaces
- Catalogs & Groups
- Target Mappings
Web & Mobile
- Node.js
- React & React Native
- D3.js & VizFrame analytics
- HTML5 / CSS / jQuery
- Android (native), Cordova
Education
- 2012 – 2014
MBA — Information Technology (full-time, residential)
Symbiosis Centre for Information Technology (SCIT) · CGPA 3.2 / 4 · Majors: Software Systems
- 2006 – 2010
B.E. — Information Technology
Dharmsinh Desai Institute of Technology · Degree 73.84% · Aggregate 68%
- 2004 – 2006
SSC & HSC (Science)
Gujarat Board · SSC 87.71% · HSC 77.2%
Certifications & recognition
- SAP Certified — Fiori Developer & Fiori Admin (Global)
- PMP — Project Management Institute
- Star Employee Award 2017 — Philips
- Highest performance rating (1) — KPMG, FY2014–15 & FY2015–16
- “Super Employee” award — KPMG India
- First Prize, SAP App Rumble 2013 — SAP Techniversity
- Invited attendee, SAP SAPPHIRE NOW 2014 — Orlando
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