About

Rufus Samuel is an experienced IT professional with over 10 years of experience in the information technology and product industry. He is currently working as a Data Analytics Senior Consultant at ey, where he specializes in SAP HANA XSA, Snowflake, SAP HANA, S4HANA Cloud tool, and ABAP CDS. Rufus has expertise in setting up containers from scratch in HANA Web IDE and making the system available for developers and clients to work. He has extensively trained HANA developers and clients to make them adapt to the tool in a better pace and has created training documents and materials to help them understand the tool better. Rufus is an expert on configuring CI/CD pipelines in Gitlab for HANA XSA environment and has created pipelines to automate the build and deploy HANA XSA code into HANA DB and update the corresponding branches. In his previous roles, Rufus has worked as a Lead HANA Modeler at KLA and as an SAP HANA Technical Analyst at Mettler-Toledo International Inc. He has implemented best HANA practices for the models developed, driven the team on data analytics platform, and supported the team in developing complex HANA models using table functions and cross-business logic. Rufus has expertise in creating HANA models in a layered approach and making sure the team follows it. He has extensive knowledge of using HANA ALM for transporting HANA views to other systems and identifying real-time transport errors and fixing them. Rufus has expertise in SAP HANA XSA/BTP, SAP Native HANA Modeling, SAP Fiori/UI5 Elements, Git Lab/Azure DevOps, Snowflake, BW4HANA, SAP ABAP CDS, SAP Analytics Cloud, Tibco Spotfire, SAP CRM, Power BI, Analysis for Office (AFO), and BOBJ. He has created synonyms extensively on top of the database tables and consume them in the HANA calculation views. Rufus is proficient in creating HANA CV’s in XSA tool and making the best use of the new XSA features. He has used new XSA features like Minus/Intersect/Table Function Node/Non-Equi Join during the developments and has developed multiple flowgraphs to handle the delta load from Oracle to SAP HANA tables. Rufus is proficient in using Git Hub & Azure tool to perform operations like Fetch/Pull/Merge/Commit/Stage. Rufus has excellent communication and interpersonal skills and has worked with