About
Practitioner-led SAP modernization
Akshay Palimkar
Founder & Principal SAP Consultant
Lumivara is led by Akshay Palimkar, an SAP ABAP engineer with 15 years across on-premise ECC, S/4HANA (SAP's current platform) and the ABAP Cloud / BTP environment (SAP's cloud development model and platform). His focus is the unglamorous, high-stakes work of modernizing custom code without halting the business that runs on it.
Rather than sell slideware, Lumivara ships working software. The same hands that would remediate your code wrote an open-source library of 39 cherry-pickable ABAP & RAP utilities and built Clean Core Academy — an interactive course that teaches teams the patterns behind a clean S/4HANA core.
That means a Lumivara engagement is low-risk and practitioner-led: fixed scope, code you own, and a senior specialist on the work — not a rotating bench.
- Author of the open-source ABAP & RAP Utilities library — 39 modules, 24 cloud-ready.
- Built Clean Core Academy — a 17-module interactive ABAP modernization course.
- 15 years hands-on across ABAP, S/4HANA, RAP, CDS and Clean Core.
15 years of hands-on SAP ABAP
A selection of roles delivering ABAP, workflow and integration across automotive, energy and manufacturing. These are past roles — shown as experience, not Lumivara client engagements.
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Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada
2020 – PresentABAP Lead / SAP Technical Consultant
- Architected large-scale A2A interfacing on SAP PI/PO 7.5 (EDI/IDocs) for scheduling agreements, sales orders, shipping notifications and invoices.
- Ran daily production support and custom development with the business; delivered a sales-process Kaizen saving ~C$100k/year and automated the Annual Pricing Review approval workflow.
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Capgemini
2018 – 2019ABAP Lead / Workflow Developer
- Built Fiori approval apps (Purchase Order / RFQ / Purchase Requisition) with custom multi-agent workflows over standard purchasing processes.
- Authored and reviewed technical specifications; lifted the annual OTACE client-satisfaction score from 3.7 to 4.1 / 5 via the technical quality index.
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ACG Worldwide
2016 – 2018ABAP Developer
- Migrated and optimised 2,500+ custom developments during the upgrade to EHP8 and Suite on HANA.
- Built CDS-based reports and ran SPAU upgrade activity; delivered GST-compliant form redesigns and supported rollouts for Croatia, Brazil and Thailand.
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MAN Energy Solutions
2013 – 2016SAP ABAP & Workflow Consultant
- Implemented customer/vendor master-data governance workflows in a multi-client landscape using ALE (IDoc/EDI).
- Harmonised and de-duplicated master data across 75,000+ customers and 225,000+ suppliers.
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Wind World India
2011 – 2013ABAP Developer
- Delivered an SAP R/3 implementation and post-go-live support; built BAPI goods-movement interfaces and LSMW/BDC conversion programs for material, vendor and finance data.
- Replaced paper-based log-sheets with an integrated SAP solution, improving reporting quality and turnaround for remote sites.
Certifications
What guides the work
Ship, don't slideware
We prove expertise with working software — an open-source library and a real training product, not a deck.
Incremental over big-bang
Modernize at a pace the business can absorb. Adopt the cloud-safe subset now; migrate the rest deliberately.
You own the outcome
Code, patterns and an upskilled team stay with you. Open-source tooling, no lock-in.
Based in Canada, working remotely
Lumivara is based in Kitchener, ON, Canada, and works remotely with SAP teams across time zones. Enquiry details stay in Canada and are never sold (PIPEDA).
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