Swapan Saha

San Francisco Bay Area

Sr. Director | Product Management | Product Architecture

Summary
* Product leader with proven success in developing scalable, industry-leading Cloud and On-
Premise solutions for companies of all sizes, focusing on big data, analytics, platform and enterprise
applications
* Hands-on leader with proven ability to execute across various functional areas including product
management, product architecture, product development, quality assurance, and customer support
* An author and/or a presenter of 25+ technical papers and white papers in enterprise software and
cloud solutions

Specialties: Cloud Computing, Big Data, SAP HANA, Enterprise Information Management, Business
Intelligence, Product Management, Product Development, Customer On-boarding, Product
Architecture, Performance & Capacity Planning, Product Integration, Product Security, GRC, SRM,
Energy Management Solution.

Experience
Senior Director, Product Management, HANA Enterprise Information Management at SAP Labs
February 2014  -  Present  (2 years 5 months)
* Building next generation data virtualization and data replication platform using in-memory
database technology for both cloud and hybrid deployment.
* Delivering self sevice data preparation tool for data scientist, business analyst

Senior Director, Product Management and Architecture, Cloud Engineering at SAP Labs
August 2012  -  February 2014  (1 year 7 months)
Responsible for product definition, product architecture and product management of SAP HANA in
private and public clouds
• Delivered three new cloud solutions HANA One (Database as a service in public cloud) on
October 2012, HANA Infrastructure as a service on October 2013, HANA DB as a service on
March 2014 with an accelerated schedule.
• Brought and engaged with first 1000 HANA One customers from 55 countries, got all early HANA
Infrastructure as a service and HANA DB as a service customers on-board.
• Co-authored SAP HANA Cookbook for MySQL Developers
Director, Product Management and Architecture, Cloud Engineering at SAP Labs
June 2011  -  July 2012  (1 year 2 months)
Responsible for product architecture of SAP HANA in public cloud; delivery and support model of
SAP HANA based SaaS in private cloud
• Defined product vision and architecture for HANA One (Database as a service in public cloud)
• Architected end-to-end delivery and support model for
- HANA One
- HANA based SaaS (SAP Sales and Operational Planning (S&OP))

Director, Architecture and Performance Engineering at SAP Labs

October 2009  -  June 2011  (1 year 9 months)
Responsible for
• Performance and scalability in GRC product portfolio (5 products including Access Control – 200M
USD annual revenue)
• Integration of 3rd party ERPs with AC 10.0.
• Lead in rolling out of a new release (GRC AC 10.0) to 60+ global beta customers (SAP Ramp-up
program)

Architect at SAP Labs

October 2001  -  October 2009  (8 years 1 month)
Various product and solution architecture roles.

Member of Technical Staff at Sun Microsystems, Inc

May 2000  -  October 2001  (1 year 6 months)
Lead in development of a new version of CommerceX (J2EE application) solution at iPlanet, a
division of Sun and AOL).

Senior Integration Engineer at TIBCO Finance Technology

January 1999  -  May 2000  (1 year 5 months)
Lead Integration Engineer for TIBExchange Product, a new trading solution.for financial market.

Senior Software Engineer at ABB Information System

December 1995  -  January 1999  (3 years 2 months)
Designed and wrote computer software for real-time energy management system multiple electric
utilities. Actively participated in adoption of new technology at ABB for deregulated electric utilities.

Education
Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur
BE, Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
M.Tech, Electrical Engineering
Iowa State University
PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Interests
Fund Raising, Alumni Network
Swapan Saha
San Francisco Bay Area
Sr. Director | Product Management | Product Architecture

9 people have recommended Swapan

"Swapan is a very intelligent and hard working engineer who never shies away from new
challenges. At ABB and later at Sun Microsystems, where he reported directly to me, Swapan
proved to be a capable and knowledgeable resource that could be counted on to investigate and
find the right approach to technical problems every time."

—Faramarz Maghsoodlou, Director, IoT and Energy Solutions,  Cisco Systems, Inc.,  managed
Swapan at ABB Information System

"Swapan is an outstanding performance architect. When he joined the GRC Development Team,
he set some very ambitious goals for dramatic (2x - 10x) performance increases in some key
areas. He exceeded most of them within six months. He was oustanding at theoretical analysis,
but equally excellent at diving into the code and queries to find areas of improvement. He was
well versed with the large arsenal of performance analysis and improvement tools at SAP. And
rather than carefully guard his expertise, Swapan actively shared knowledge with any interested
colleague, arguing in fact, that it was essential to our success that more colleagues be able to do
much of what he was able to do. Swapan made performance presentations at shows on behalf of
GRC. He also dealt with many customers who were experiecing performance problems. He quickly
established a high degree of credibility with all of them, helping us to defuse some potentially
difficult customer situations. Always putting the company's and the customer's interests first,
Swapan was a joy to work with and to manage. I can not recommend him highly enough. Chip"

—Chip Pessa, EVP and General Manager,  RightCrowd Software,  managed Swapan at SAP Labs

"Swapan is an excellent architect , specialized in performance. As a performance architect for SAP

GRC , he as done a wonderful job in improving performance of core GRC applications. He helped
several very large customers to size their SAP application systems for optimized performance. Core
strength of Swapan is his attitude of “what ever it takes” and very high degree of professionalism .
He can be always trusted to deliver any task with very high quality. It has been a real great pleasure
to have Swapan part of GRC team. I wish him all the success in his professional and personal life."

—Bhanu Mohanty, CTO & VP Engineering,  Fishbowl Marketing Analytics,  managed Swapan at

SAP Labs
"Swapan is a powerhouse who lets his work do the talk! His ability to deliver quality products under
short timelines is simply awesome! Two examples - 1) He co-architected the successful delivery
of SAP HANA in public cloud and was directly involved with first 1000 HANA One customers on
AWS + delivery of HANA Infrastructure and Database as a service from SAP in a short period of
time. 2) He co-authored the HANA Cookbook for MySQL Developers, partnering with my technical
marketing team to attract people switching to HANA resulting in 10,000+ downloads and massive
awareness. "

—Amit Sinha, Co Founder,  WorkSpan,  managed Swapan indirectly at SAP Labs

"Swapan is a smart, hard working, self-driven individual. He is able to tacke in the most complex
issues and come up with a simpler, production-quality approach, that satisfies the customer real
needs."

—Reynaldo Bernal, Director, Research and Development,  ALSTOM,  managed Swapan indirectly

at ABB Information System

"Swapan is a core technical professional. I was amazed at his breadth and depth of existing
and emerging technology's knowledge. He is thorough and sound with the SAP architecture
and environment. He could easily envision several marketable ideas. I would highly recommend
Swapan!!!"

—Dhiraj Dogra - MBA, MS, PMP, CSM, Sr Engineering Program Manager,  Ariba, An SAP
Company,  worked directly with Swapan at SAP Labs

"Swapan is an excellent engineer and architect for business application software with deep
knowledge of SAP application architecture, SAP application performance tuning and capacity
management. He was driving forward SAP’s partnerships with industry leading test tool providers
and helped many of SAP’s internal development groups as well as SAP’s customers to achieve
most optimal SAP business application software performance. Even though Swapan and I work
in different groups now, I’m glad that he’ll be able to manage major test lab operations for SAP
partners for me."

—Joerg Nalik, Director, Infrastructure Services,  SAP Labs,  managed Swapan at SAP Labs

"Swapan contributed greatly to performance related matters by writing papers on KPIs and profiling
tools."

—Martin Moser, PhD, Quality Manager,  SAP AG,  worked with Swapan at SAP Labs

"Swapan is detail oriented and has a remarkable approach to assessing and reviewing problems.
He is easy to work with, full of energy and manages every project with utmost motivation."
 —Rajeev Madnawat, Senior IP and Licensing Counsel,  NXP Semiconductors,  worked directly with
Swapan at SAP Labs

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