Srivatsan Santhanam

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India22 yrs 4 mos experience
Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • 10 US & EU Patents in technology.
  • Regular speaker at technology events.
  • Authored multiple business cases and research papers.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with strong leadership in product engineering and architecture.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingLeadershipTeam LeadershipProduct EngineeringProduct DevelopmentCross-functional Team LeadershipLocalizationProduct StrategyThought LeadershipSap HanaCloud ApplicationsArchitectureSap S/4hanaAbapBankingSystem ArchitectureJavaUniversity Lecturing

Other Skills

ABAP Web DynproABAP-OOAgile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)Artificial Intelligence (AI)Artificial Intelligence for BusinessBig DataBusiness AnalysisCloud-Native ApplicationsConversational AIEnterprise ArchitectureEnterprise Resource Planning (ERP)ProcurementProduct LeadershipProduct Management

About

Vice President, Strategic Procurement Engineering, SAP Ariba Thought Leader, Author, Data Scientist 10 US & EU Patents(Technology Utility patents). 2 Business cases authored in IIMA, 10 IEEE Research papers, Regular speaker in technology events

Experience

Sap

10 roles

Vice President, Head of Strategic Procurement Engineering

Jan 2025Present · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Head of Strategic Procurement Engineering, leading transformative initiatives to optimize procurement strategies and enhance engineering excellence. Drive innovation, foster collaboration, and deliver sustainable value across global supply chains.
Cloud-Native ApplicationsCloud ComputingArtificial Intelligence (AI)ProcurementSAP ProcurementProduct Engineering+2

Vice President, Spend Engineering/ Head of Concur R&D, SAP Labs India

Promoted

Aug 2022Jan 2025 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Head of Concur R&D, SAP Labs India
  • Heading a team of 100+ engineers across Concur product space like Concur Invoice, Concur Pay and Concur Expense.
Cloud-Native ApplicationsTeam LeadershipAmazon Web Services (AWS)Product EngineeringLeadership

Senior Director of Software Engineering/ Head of Concur R&D, SAP Labs India

Nov 2021Jul 2022 · 8 mos

  • Head of Concur R&D, SAP Labs India Bangalore
  • Heading a team of 100+ engineers across Concur product space like Concur Invoice, Concur Pay and Concur Expense.
Cloud-Native ApplicationsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Product DevelopmentProduct EngineeringLeadership

Senior Director / Chief Product Owner

Feb 2020Oct 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Chief Product Officer, accountable for product strategy and delivery of Concur localization capabilities. (SAP Globalization Services , Concur Localization)
  • Headed a team of 7 Area Product Owners and 8 Team of Ten Engineering teams (80+ developers) across geo-locations (Bangalore, Shanghai, Walldorf)
  • Impact areas: Japan localization (Japan public transport), China localization (WeChat support), EU (Document compliance and Taxes)
Cloud-Native ApplicationsCross-functional Team LeadershipAmazon Web Services (AWS)Localization

Sr Director S/4HANA Cloud Product Management & Co-innovation

Mar 2018Feb 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Global Lead Hybrid Cloud / 2-Tier ERP with S/4HANA and Area Product Manager
  • Define Product Strategy, direction and prioritize feature function requirements for product portfolio cycles. (incl intelligent capabilities of AI/ML and RPA)
  • Own thought leadership space for Hybrid Cloud deployment with SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
Product StrategyProduct DevelopmentProduct LeadershipThought Leadership

Director S/4HANA Product Management APJ

Promoted

Jun 2016Feb 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Global Lead Hybrid Cloud / 2-Tier ERP with S/4HANA and Area Product Manager
  • Define Product Strategy, direction and prioritize feature function requirements for product portfolio cycles. (incl intelligent capabilities of AI/ML and RPA)
  • Own thought leadership space for 2-Tier ERP with SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
  • Drive Product Strategy, Roadmap, Market Adoption of S4AHANA
  • Align development unit priorities based on market demand & define n prioritize development backlogs.
SAP HANASAP Business Technology PlatformCloud Applications

Architect - S/4HANA

Promoted

Sep 2012May 2016 · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • S/4HANA Architect in CoE
  • Customer Implementations as S/4HANA Architect & Lead
  • Asian Paints – S4HANA Finance
  • Infosys Ltd – S4HANA Finance, Fiori
  • Wipro Technologies – S4HANA
  • Customer Implementations as S/4 HANA Architect
  • 1. Usha International – Suite on HANA
  • 2. Asian Paints Ltd – CRM on HANA, Suite on HANA
  • 3. Infosys Ltd – Suite on HANA, BW on HANA, SRM on HANA 4. Bajaj Auto Ltd – Suite on HANA (HEC)
  • 5. Ashok Leyland – Suite on HANA
  • 6. Mahindra & Mahindra – HANA Sidecar, Fiori
ArchitectureSAP HANASAP S/4HANA

Associate Manager

Dec 2008Aug 2012 · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • responsibilities include project setup, detailed planning , tracking, legal product standard compliance, risk assessment & mitigation, reporting & execution
  • I’m solely responsible for management of product maturity & compliance to product standards
  • I’m responsible for decision marking with respect to customer & partner engagement, roll-in and roll-out activities related to the Product being developed.
  • handle pipeline management of new topics which would be executed by the Scrum teams under product team in the future based on feasibility & supply capacity.
BankingABAPABAP Web Dynpro

Principal Software Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2007Dec 2008 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Composite Applications for Banking:
The project was to build orchestrated applications on top of Banking services SAP process platform by consuming Enterprise Services.
Composite Applications developed include Collateral Workplace and Customer Engagement & Contract Office.
  • Collateral Workplace was a composite application targeted for Collateral Management System wherein a collateral officer at the Bank could make use of this composite application to create & manage various types of collateral objects.
  • Customer Engagement & Contract Office was a composite application which would a front end loan officer to manage Business Partners, disburse loan and manage other loan process like Skip, Payoff & Waiver.
  • Technology; WedDynpro for Java, Enterprise Services (SOAP based), NetWeaver Composition Environment

Role: Design, Architecture Engineering & Development
WebDynproBig DataABAP-OOSystem ArchitectureJava

Software Engineer

Sep 2004Dec 2006 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Java

Psg institute of technology and applied research

Visiting Professor

Aug 2023Present · 2 yrs 7 mos · Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

  • Visiting professor, driving industry - academic research via thought leadership publication, books, journals, faculty development programs and academic syllabus review.
University Lecturing

Dell

Developer

May 2003Aug 2004 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bangalore

  • Worked on projects related to GE Healthcare Life Sciences & Travelocity

Education

Indian School of Business

Chief Digital and AI Officer — Artificial Intelligence

Sep 2024Jul 2025

Indian School of Business

Leadership in AI

Apr 2024Nov 2024

International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore

Post Graduate Diploma in Data Science — Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Jan 2018Jan 2019

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

Executive Education — General Management

Jan 2011Jan 2011

Bharathiar University

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) — Information Technology

Jan 1999Jan 2003

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