Philip Gao
Senior SAP Consultant (SD MM) at NTT DATA
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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RockstarPhilip Gao is a Senior SAP Consultant with over 20 years of hands-on experience implementing and supporting SAP across industries including hi‑tech, manufacturing, retail, pharmaceutical and CPG. He brings deep functional expertise in SD and MM plus strong cross-module integration (SM/PM/CS, LE, QM, FICO) and technical skills in ABAP, EDI/ALE and interfaces, spanning ECC and S/4HANA/Fiori landscapes. Philip has led global rollouts and complex integrations for major OEMs and enterprises, combining practical configuration know-how with debugging and performance fixes at the code level. Bilingual in English and Chinese with working Japanese, he pairs stakeholder-facing consulting with low-level technical problem solving. An active contributor to the popular WLED open-source project, he has applied embedded/IoT and protocol-level expertise (DDP UDP output) outside the SAP domain, illustrating a rare blend of enterprise ERP mastery and hands-on firmware/network programming. Based in Victoria, BC, he is SAP-certified in SD and MM and continues to drive cross-functional solutions at scale.
18 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
esp3210
iot10
udp10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
esp826610
networking9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
wled/WLED
Aug 2020 - Oct 2021
Control WS2812B and many more types of digital RGB LEDs with an ESP32 over WiFi!
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 17 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Philip contributed significantly to the WLED project by implementing and improving the DDP (Distributed Display Protocol) UDP output functionality. This involved adding the initial DDP UDP output, optimizing data handling for both RGB and RGBW LED configurations. The user also made enhancements to existing code, including fixing a heap corruption issue and making performance improvements, such as avoiding redundant calls. Further work was done to correct spelling and improve the overall output.
esp32wifilightesp8266led
pbolduc/EventStore-DevOps
Mar 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 68 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 7 months
deployingscriptingconfiguration-managementmanagement-toolsevent-store
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