Alper Akbal

Customer Engineer @ Google

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

About

I design and implement future-ready SAP landscapes on Google Cloud, empowering customers to leverage their data through advanced AI and analytics.

Experience

  • Cloud Customer Engineer, SAP Solutions at Google
    Sep 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos

  • SAP (13 yrs 3 mos)
    • Cloud Architect & Advisor – RISE with SAP
      May 2021 - Sep 2024 · 3 yrs 5 mos

      • Responsible for technical presales activities for RISE with SAP Private Cloud opportunities, while presenting the value proposition for SAP private cloud on Hyperscalers. • Assess customers’ on-premise deployments and design target landscapes aligning with their Digital Transformation Strategy. Build customer-specific cloud roadmaps to support cloud adoption and Business Transformations. • Act as a Trusted Advisor to SAP and customers on all technical aspects of SAP RISE. Guide customers on business continuity, security and compliance, networks, and other technical aspects. • Collaborate closely with SAP sales, delivery, and engineering teams to address customer-specific requirements. • Lead technical discussions with customers and coordinate with experts from the SAP delivery organization as needed. • Serve as a Cloud Security Architect to handle security discussions around Private Cloud and data sovereignty, ensuring the SAP security architecture framework meets customer requirements.

    • Senior Technology Architect
      Sep 2018 - May 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos

      • Filled many pre- and post-sales support roles for hardware sizing, solution design, HA-DR scenarios, TDI Infrastructure and technical architecture • Actively led many technical discussions with customers and partners. Supported customers for their project planning and scoping. • Led a team of consultants in S/4HANA conversion projects. Handled activities like planning, allocation of tasks to resources, daily workload management. • Coached SAP and customer team during transition and go-live. • Hands-on S/4HANA conversion experience for on-premise and cloud deployments • Ran TAI (Technical Architecture & Infrastructure) and MPW (Migration Planning Workshop) • Designed security architecture for hybrid landscapes • Designed & completed integration between various on-premise and Cloud products (SAP & non-SAP)

    • Senior Technology Consultant
      Apr 2016 - Aug 2018 · 2 yrs 5 mos

      • Participated many SoH and S/4HANA migration/implementation projects. Extensive experience in SAP on HANA an SAP DMO of SUM (incl. on-premise, HEC, Azure and AWS deployments) • Implemented first greenfield Suite on HANA and first Suite on HANA migration (brownfield) projects in Turkey. • Demonstrated the value of properly implemented SAP products and services in many sales cycles. • Solid experience in SAP Cloud Platform, SAP Cloud Connector, SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Cloud Identity solutions. • Led many Security projects globally. Delivered end-to-end solutions for various SAP security & authentication issues. • Solid experience with SAP and non-SAP, on-premise and cloud solutions, related to system security and Single Sign-On concept. • Worked on integration of various SAP and non-SAP systems(both on-prem and cloud).

  • Chairman of the Board at Bogazici Sultans Football Club
    Aug 2018 - Aug 2024 · 6 yrs 1 mo

  • Software Engineer at Smartiks Information Technology Services Inc.
    Jul 2010 - Jun 2011 · 1 yr

    • Software engineering, producing enterprise software on SharePoint, .NET, Oracle and MS-SQL. Maintaining and troubleshooting developed applications. Modified existing software to improve performance, adding new modules and fix errors focused on client needs.