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Fernando Ros, HANA Distinguished Engineer and Brazilian

SAP TechEd/d-code is just around the corner now, so here is the second of our HDEs of the TechEd/d-code season! Fernando Da Ros is an independent consultant working via SAP in Brazil, and our first HDE from Latin America and one of the earliest HANA practitioners. He’s extremely passionate about helping people on the forums, especially in the Portuguese forums, which is very cool. So please give a warm welcome to Fernando!


Tell us a little around your background in the industry

Began on development of systems in 85 programing micro computers covering industries of food, retail, drugstore, clothing, advocacy among others at this time languages was mainly Basic, Clipper, Pascal and C/Assembly for short things. Later around 98 I met Delphi and relational databases and started to support big companies. On 2006 I moved to Rio and engaged IBM and was my first task with exclusive role as developer/problem solving, two years later I joined SAP, as a contractor with an specific role to be the support/ brigdge of SAP NFE (Nota Fiscal Eletronica) product which was new here on Brazil and specially new for developers based on Germany. Currently my role at SAP is Development Architect for new products HANA based.

How did you get into the SAP HANA space?

2011 I started to hear news about it through the grapevine and became very interested, I take the chance within an innovation project at Petrobras to build a product to report a fiscal report.

What advice would you give to people looking to learn SAP HANA?

I’m used to go through openSAP.com which you can learn and practice for free with cloud environment.

Be part of community and look blogs, wikis and threads here on SCN http://scn.sap.com/community/hana-in-memory

Read old questions, make your own.

Can you tell us a little about the projects you are working on right now?

Currently I’m working ad Development Architect on an SAP product name SAP ECF that will cover a fiscal report that Brazilian companies will be obligated next year. This product works over SAP TDF repository, something like a VDM for tax reporting and auditing.

Tell us about one of your HANA war wounds!

The mentioned fiscal report on first versions of HANA was an excellent opportunity to become expert on HANA as at that stage HANA Development was focusing on OLAP and all recommendations make us fail. After rebuild sometimes we reached the final code mixing all artifacts Analytic, Attribute and CE/SQL.The only one that, at that time, bring no value was calculation view.

As all timeline was 3 months to deliver we couldn’t even wait for OSS be analysed, so it was a serious of try, error, do differently.

It was necessary to create “trace/debug” artifacts to understand what is going on inside the execution, and…. This also changes the execution so it was a flying blind.

What do you see in the future of HANA?

Well in my perception we will not talk more about HANA in future as it will be omnipresent in some SAP product.What he brings unlocked many possibilities that wasn’t possible before, cases like bring powerful information for mobiles and enable smart apps for executives that don’t need.

BTW: It was possible before but not so easy and integrated as today.

If there was one change you could make to HANA, what would it be?

Reuse of pre-executed views is a most for me. Example with 3 views:

   CA_LEVEL1

     CA_LEVEL2 this call CA_LEVEL1

        CA_LEVEL3 this call CA_LEVEL2 which call CA_LEVEL1 also

Currently in HANA such design lead over execution of already executed views. In this simple example CA_LEVEL1 3 times and CA_LEVEL2 2 times which is a shoot in the feet.

Tell us a bit about yourself outside of HANA and work

Good question, I have done in recent years is basically working. I have 3 kids and a lovely wife. Gradually I am recovering from surgery on my leg and resuming a healthier life.

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      Author's profile photo Henrique Pinto
      Henrique Pinto

      This is awesome!

      Fernando is the top HANA consultant in the Brazilian ecosystem today, having started to dwell with it in rev1x. He is my personal reference for deep dive stuff, together with Lars Breddemann. ๐Ÿ˜‰

      Having the first HANA Distinguished Engineer in Latin America also advocates for the maturity of the regional market in terms of expertise. I know he is the first of many to come!

      Cheers,

      Henrique.

      Author's profile photo John Appleby
      John Appleby
      Blog Post Author

      Absolutely, you make a great point. In fact if you look at the SAP HANA Distinguished Engineers - the master list, you will see an interesting trend. The first were in USA, UK and Germany.

      However the more recent HDEs are all from the regions (there are more to come). This is a big testimony to the development of SAP HANA in regional markets.

      Author's profile photo Lars Breddemann
      Lars Breddemann

      Thanks Henrique!

      A nice feedback to take into the weekend ๐Ÿ™‚

      Author's profile photo Fernando Da Ros
      Fernando Da Ros

      Really awesome. Many thanks Henrique for your  words.
      Moreover, also the immediate friendship since we met.

      I'm within you about Lars Breddemann. What recently I couldn't find from manuals, help, PM, source code came from him. Another spot light for me was  Werner Steyn and their excelent presentations compararing DO's and DONT's for push downs and engines ๐Ÿ˜‰

      Author's profile photo Lars Breddemann
      Lars Breddemann

      Cheers man!

      And agreed: Werner cannot be thanked enough for that painful testing, tracing and documenting he did in our CSA years.

      Sweet, now we're already maintaining HANA nostalgia ๐Ÿ™‚ .

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Congratulations Mr Ros !!

      Cheers ! Eliseo

      Author's profile photo Fernando Da Ros
      Fernando Da Ros

      Thanks Eliseo

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Great news! Congratulations Fernando!

      Author's profile photo Fernando Da Ros
      Fernando Da Ros

      Thanks Gilson

      Author's profile photo Lars Breddemann
      Lars Breddemann

      Cheers Fernando!

      Was about time ๐Ÿ™‚ .

      Author's profile photo Fernando Da Ros
      Fernando Da Ros

      Thanks Lars.

      You touched the never ๐Ÿ˜‰

      I just realized that in last year I barelly stop to answer forums, specially on HANA but there a good and a bad reason.

      The good one is that there are excelent members of HANA community worldwide so most of time I don't need to answer (I'm not addicted to say same thing in different words to receive a like or helpful)

      and the bad one I love SCN and due to this I receive too much emails per day of because I have many areas of interest SCN and also SAP internal forums and

      This together with too much meetings that is necessary for a human being live happy I reach the questions when it's already "outdated" ๐Ÿ™

      This I will take an immediatelly action stop receive it and hope be a more responsive colleague.

      Author's profile photo Raquel Pereira da Cunha
      Raquel Pereira da Cunha

      Parabéns Fernando!

      Author's profile photo Fernando Da Ros
      Fernando Da Ros

      Obrigado Raquel pelo carinho e pelas suas contribuições de sempre

      Author's profile photo Fernando Da Ros
      Fernando Da Ros

      I went to sleep early yesterday with fever and woke up the HDE list. Despite it wasn't new for me, John had already interviewed me, I'm stunning... things just started to fall now. I'm flattered, honored and among other feelings of happiness welling up here;-)

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      WOW man... Why I'm not surprised??? He is a f... great geek!!! ๐Ÿ˜† ๐Ÿ˜› ๐Ÿ˜Ž

      Well deserved my friend!!! It is a result of passion and hard work!

      Congratulations!!! Cheers!!!

      Author's profile photo Fernando Da Ros
      Fernando Da Ros

      Obrigado mesmo Eduardo.

      Na resposta que dei pro Lars sobre não precisar responder pra HANA, rola o mesmo pra NFE / SPED / ERP. Tu e outros experts mandam muuuuito bem por aqui.


      Grande Abraço

      Author's profile photo Krishna Tangudu
      Krishna Tangudu

      Congratulations Fernando Da Ros ๐Ÿ™‚

      Welcome and nice to see your name on the list

      Regards,

      Krishna Tangudu

      Author's profile photo Fernando Da Ros
      Fernando Da Ros

      Thanks Krishna

      Author's profile photo Tamas Szirtes
      Tamas Szirtes

      Congrats, Fernando! I hope to meet you in an upcoming event - at least virtually ๐Ÿ˜‰

      Regards,

      Tamas

      Author's profile photo Fernando Da Ros
      Fernando Da Ros

      Hi Tamas,

      Yes, for sure. I already accepted the invitation and I started to watch old recordings to do not fill a fish out of water there.

      Regards, Fernando Da Rós

      Author's profile photo John Appleby
      John Appleby
      Blog Post Author

      Wow, I just wanted to comment that Fernando is one popular guy. I'm very pleased that so many people rate him.

      Author's profile photo Henrique Pinto
      Henrique Pinto

      Told you so. ๐Ÿ˜‰

      Author's profile photo Renan Ceguinato
      Renan Ceguinato

      Congratulations Fernando, i follow you since 2009.

      Author's profile photo Fernando Da Ros
      Fernando Da Ros

      Thanks Renan, time fly don't you thing? Rsss

      Author's profile photo Eduardo Hartmann
      Eduardo Hartmann

      Well done Fernando! Congrats!!

      Author's profile photo Fernando Da Ros
      Fernando Da Ros

      Many Thanks Eduardo

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Fernando,

      You're an inspiration: keep up the great job!!!

      Congratulations! ๐Ÿ™‚

      Karen Rodrigues

      Author's profile photo Fernando Da Ros
      Fernando Da Ros

      Hi Karen,

      That's an nice thing to receive as feedback.

      If I can do a best thing for community is replicate the idea of help people and you are the ones that got it in essence.

      After stay on top of Portuguese Community for 3 years in a row, for me the best certificate I received last year was to see other names helping and taking over everything in a way that I can't do by myself.

      I really thank you back

      Best regards, Fernando Da Rós

      Author's profile photo Marssel Vilaรงa
      Marssel Vilaรงa

      Great interview.  Congratulations Fernando !

      Author's profile photo Martin Donadio
      Martin Donadio

      Congrats Da Ros !

      I had the pleasure to work with you and no doubt you are a great HANA professional !


      Well deserve this recognition ๐Ÿ™‚ !

      Abrazo

      Martin

      Author's profile photo Fernando Da Ros
      Fernando Da Ros

      Maestro Martin,

      It was also for me a pleasure to work together with you. A brilliant mind that brought me many things to think about and things to explore how the prediction programs.

      Abrazo, Fernando Da Rós

      PS: I went to BA last week. Fantastic city, need back there with more time ๐Ÿ˜‰

      Author's profile photo Denny Schreber
      Denny Schreber

      Congrats Fernando, I still remember your presentation from that Petrobras project ๐Ÿ™‚

      Cheers,

      Denny

      Author's profile photo Fernando Da Ros
      Fernando Da Ros

      Many thanks Denny.

      Yeah  Time flies.

      Author's profile photo Raj Kumar S
      Raj Kumar S

      Congratulations Fernando Ros.

      Really nice to see wonderful comments from your colleagues and others for your amazing work. Happy to see you in the HDE and welcome to the club.

      Looking forward to meet you in the SAP future events.

      Regards

      Raj

      Author's profile photo Fernando Da Ros
      Fernando Da Ros

      Hi Raj, thanks for your warm welcome.

      It should be really nice meet you on future events.

      Author's profile photo Vivek Singh Bhoj
      Vivek Singh Bhoj

      Congratulations Fernando

      Regards,

      Vivek

      Author's profile photo Fernando Da Ros
      Fernando Da Ros

      Thanks Vivek

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Congratulation Fernando.

      Wow !!! so many comments already. I'm not surprised. You should have been on the list from the beginning.

      Regards

      Abani

      Author's profile photo Fernando Da Ros
      Fernando Da Ros

      Hi Abani, maybe yes maybe not but now we are here.

      Thanks

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Congrats Fernando! Good to see you join the club. ๐Ÿ™‚