Meet the SAPinsider Experts

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Experts

  • Nithyasree Balasubramanian
    Expert since 2023

    Nithya is an SAP Cloud Architect and an SAP BTP expert from Deloitte. She has experience with full cycle implementations handling some of the latest products of SAP like S/4 HANA Cloud, services of SAP BTP like SAP Process Automation, iRPA, CPI, Integration Suite, SuccessFactors, Ariba among others. Passionate about automating the SAP Software Products, her main goal is to build and deploy powerful conversational interfaces to revolutionize the customer experience.
  • Shawn Brown
    Expert since 2023

    Shawn Brown is a technologists at SAP and an expert on the SAP Business Technology Platform – which simplifies SAP customer landscape and accelerates time to value. Shawn has served the needs of his customers in pre- and post-sales roles with the underlying goal of helping his customers differentiate themselves from their competition.
  • Damien Johnson

    Damien Johnson is currently serving as the Global Chief Architect for the RISE, Ecosystem organization, to ensure our customers benefit from a complementary architecture patterns and capabilities from SAP partners, for their cloud journey. His extensive experience as an Enterprise Architect helping SAP’s large strategic customers modernize has helped him design and co-author strategic cloud…
  • Akash Kumar

    Akash Kumar is an author, speaker, and techie for emerging and disruptive technology topics with a focus on Intelligent Enterprise. He is currently working as Solution Architect with HCL and supporting new products, services, and offerings on the Industry Cloud. He has supported multiple customers in digital transformation by creating business use cases and technology roadmaps, migrating from old to new technology such as SAP S/4HANA, SAP Business Technology Platform, and SAP Analytics, implementing new business model on artificial intelligence/machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and blockchain, and enabling business process simplification with Celonis and task automation with robotic process automation. He is the author of PlanViz: Improving SAP HANA Performance (SAP Press) and Building and Extending SAP HANA Live Views (SAP Press). He has a bachelor's degree in computer science and holds numerous certifications, including Scrum Master, Agile, IoT, Devops, SAP HANA, SAP Cloud Platform, SAP Activate, and SAP S/4HANA.
  • Laz Uriza

    Laz is the Global Sales and Strategy Lead for SAP on Azure; he works with the Global Azure Sales Team focusing on RISE on Azure and SAP on Azure initiatives. He also ensures Partners (SI’s, MSP’s and ISV’s) are engaged to provide services on the Azure Cloud Platform.   Before joining Microsoft, Laz has over…