Rich Heilman
Developer Advocate
York, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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SeniorRich Heilman is a Developer Advocate on SAP’s Global Developer & Community Relations team, specializing in ABAP, Steampunk, and HANA development and focused on driving developer adoption and outreach. He brings deep product and architecture experience from roles as a Development Architect for S/4HANA and as Director of SAP HANA Product Management, where he shaped developer tooling around SQLScript, CDS and XS. Over nearly three decades he evolved from AS/400 and RPGIV development into SAP ABAP and cloud ERP architecture, giving him rare perspective across legacy systems and modern cloud-native SAP stacks. He co-authored Next Generation ABAP Development and is a long-time contributor to the SAP Community, earning recognition as an SAP Mentor/Alumnus and HANA Distinguished Engineer. Known for translating incubation pilots into practical roadmap influence, he combines hands-on coding expertise with strategic product vision. Based in York, Pennsylvania, he balances technical depth with developer advocacy to accelerate real-world HANA and S/4HANA adoption.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (138)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
SAP-samples/teched2021-developer-keynote
Jul 2021 - Nov 2021
SAP TechEd 2021 Developer Keynote: Improving Developers' Lives.
Contributions:82 commits in 4 months
keynotetechedkymaopenui5abap
SAP-samples/abap-exercises-codejam
Feb 2020 - May 2022
Material for CodeJams on SAP Business Technology Platform, ABAP Environment and ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model.
Contributions:298 commits, 6 PRs, 317 pushes in 2 years 2 months
abap-restfulrestfulopenui5abapprogramming-model
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