Philip 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.
Control WS2812B and many more types of digital RGB LEDs with an ESP8266 or ESP32 over WiFi!
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Contributions: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.
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Philip Gao - Senior SAP Consultant (SD MM) at NTT DATA