SAP BTP · S/4HANA · Intelligent automation · Enterprise AI
SebastianoMarchesini
I design, build, document, and teach enterprise cloud architectures that help organizations modernize SAP landscapes and adopt automation and AI.
- SAP Champion ↗
- SAP PRESS author ↗
- SAP Learning instructor ↗
- IEEE Senior Member
01 · Work
From implementation to reusable architecture.
My work spans SAP cloud modernization, clean-core extensions, integration, intelligent automation, and technical leadership on enterprise programs in the United States.
Cloud modernization
SAP BTP & S/4HANA
Architecture and implementation patterns for cloud-native extensions, integrations, authentication, APIs, and migration from legacy SAP environments — including the Neo-to-Cloud Foundry migration covered in my SAP PRESS book.
Intelligent automation
AI-enabled workflows
Accounts-payable and document-processing automation on SAP BTP: SAP Build Process Automation, Document AI, and agents built with SAP Joule Studio, with human approval and auditability designed in.
Knowledge transfer
Publish, teach, repeat
Technical publications, live instruction, conference sessions, community meetups, and worked examples designed to make complex patterns easier for other practitioners to reuse.
02 · Publications
Technical writing and published courses.
A book and an online course with SAP PRESS, plus technical articles and answers on SAP Community.
SAP PRESS · E-Bite
Migrating from Neo to Cloud Foundry for SAP BTP
A practical guide to planning and executing the move of SAP BTP workloads from the Neo environment to Cloud Foundry — integrations, workflows, portals, applications, and data services — managed with SAP Activate. ISBN 978-1-4932-2658-0.
SAP PRESS · Online course · Instructor
Extending SAP S/4HANA with CAP and AI
A five-hour course, available on demand, on building CAP-based S/4HANA extensions with AI tooling: extension architecture, environment setup on SAP BTP, CDS modeling and services, remote S/4HANA APIs, SAP Fiori elements, prompt engineering, and quality assurance for AI-generated code.
Selected articles on SAP Community
The agent in the SAP World
What an agent is in the SAP world, and how to build one in SAP Joule Studio. ↗
How to use the new Google IDE Antigravity with SAP (and CAP)
Setting up an AI-first IDE for SAP CAP development. ↗
Building a CAP service with cds-mcp and Cline — hands-on guide
A step-by-step walkthrough, with screenshots, of building a CAP service with an MCP server and an AI coding assistant. ↗
03 · Speaking & Teaching
Sharing implementation knowledge in public.
Live instruction on SAP Learning, conference and community sessions, guest teaching, and interviews on SAP's own channels.
IEEE Industrial Electronics Society — TC-II webinar
“Industry Adoption of Cloud Computing and AI: Current Trends and Future Opportunities” — IEEE IES online webinar series, July 2026. ↗
SAP Learning — live session
“A beginner's guide to building agents with SAP Joule Studio” — instructor, July 2026. ↗
SAP S/4HANA Innovation Festival, Columbus
Speaker at the virtual edition, March 2026 — how S/4HANA professionals implement and face the challenges of innovation. ↗
Kean University — guest session
A session for business students at the College of Business and Public Management on ERP and SAP, cloud transformation, and AI in enterprise systems, February 2026.
SAP Learning Insights — podcast guest
“Tales from the go-live – BTP, Clean Core and a Near Perfect Go-Live”, SAP's learning podcast, December 2025. ↗
SAP Devtoberfest
“Integrating S/4HANA Public Cloud APIs into CAP Made Simple” — speaker, October 2025. ↗
SAP Inside Track Rome
“MCP Basics in SAP with Visual Studio Code” — community session, October 2025. ↗
SAP Learning — live session series
“SAP S/4HANA: What is it and where does it come from?” — instructor, three deliveries between August and November 2025. ↗
SAP CodeTalk
Featured guest on SAP Developers' interview series. ↗
SAP TechEd 2023
“Enabling Circular Business Models with SAP BTP and Generative AI” (session AI214v) — the circular-economy solution that won the Hack2Build North America Demo Jam earlier that year. ↗
SAP Inside Track Rome
Community session at SAP Inside Track Rome 2019.
04 · Community
Building technical communities around practice.
Rooms where practitioners trade real implementation detail, on SAP Community and in person in New York.
New York City
SAP Technology Meetup NYC
I am one of the curators of the SAP Community New York group and organize the SAP Technology Meetup in New York City: in-person sessions since April 2024, including guest-speaker nights, an SAP CodeJam after-event, and a joint meetup with ASUG. ↗
SAP Champions
Ask Me Anything with SAP Champions
A monthly series on SAP Community, launched in 2026, that I proposed and coordinate: each month a different SAP Champion answers practitioners' questions — technical and not — asked openly or anonymously. ↗
IEEE
Industrial Electronics Society
IEEE Senior Member and member of the IEEE IES Technical Committee on Industrial Informatics (TC-II), where I serve as Industry Liaison and gave the committee's July 2026 webinar on enterprise cloud and AI adoption. ↗
05 · Recognition
Designations, awards, and certifications.
Each item is conferred by a third party and can be checked at the linked source.
SAP Champion
Designated by SAP since 2023; the program re-evaluates its members every year. ↗
IEEE Senior Member
Elevated in 2025 — the grade requires peer nomination and references, and IEEE reports that roughly ten percent of its members hold it.
SAP Hack2Build — Global 1st Runner-Up, Custom AI Agents edition
Project lead for Avvale's Early Payment Assistant, an autonomous agent built in SAP Joule Studio, in the first Hack2Build focused on agentic AI (13 partner teams from 7 countries). ↗
SAP Hack2Build on SAP Build — North America Demo Jam winner
Team Nimbl's Reclaim, a circular e-commerce solution on SAP Build, S/4HANA, chatbots, and visual AI, February 2023. ↗
SAP Hack2Build S/4HANA Cloud Side-by-Side Extension — North America winner
Team NIMBL's Intelligent Accounts Payable Shared Service solution on SAP Fiori and SAP BTP, June 2021; EMEA South category winner with Techedge the following month. ↗
Certifications
SAP Certified Associate — Backend Developer, SAP Cloud Application Programming Model · SAP Certified Development Associate — Fiori Application Developer · SAP HANA 2.0 · SAP Extension Suite.
06 · About
Computer scientist. Architect. Builder. Teacher.
I am an Italian computer scientist based in New York City. I have worked in enterprise technology since 2017 — first at Techedge (now Avvale) in Italy, and since 2022 at Avvale in the United States, where I am a Lead Consultant on SAP cloud modernization programs.
My focus is the intersection of cloud architecture, enterprise software, automation, and applied AI. Outside client delivery, I publish, teach, speak, organize community events, and turn implementation experience into material other practitioners can reuse.
07 · Contact
Working on SAP modernization, enterprise AI, or technical education?
I'm always interested in exchanging implementation lessons, collaborating on technical content, speaking at conferences and user groups, and hearing how practitioners use the material published here.