Valerijs Tolkacovs
Verified Expert in Engineering
SAP Integration Expert and Developer
Riga, Latvia
Toptal member since February 17, 2025
Valerijs is a SAP-certified Cloud Platform Integration (CPI) expert with 5+ years of extensive experience designing, developing, and implementing complex and robust cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-on-premise integration solutions. Valerijs also has 7+ years of experience across the SAP ecosystem, including SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), SuccessFactors, S/4HANA, Process Integration and Orchestration (PI/PO), ERP, and Solution Manager.
Portfolio
Experience
- Troubleshooting - 7 years
- SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) - 7 years
- Encryption - 5 years
- SAP Cloud Platform Integration (CPI) - 5 years
- Groovy Scripting - 5 years
- HR Integration - 3 years
- SAP SuccessFactors - 3 years
- CSV File Processing - 3 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
IntelliJ IDEA, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), SAP Cloud Platform Integration (CPI), SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), Windows, Microsoft Teams
The most amazing...
...I have persuaded SAP to revise and release a new version of SAP SuccessFactors standard integration to align with client expectations.
Work Experience
SAP CPI Consultant
LeverX
- Designed and developed multiple custom integrations for employee data, absences, compensation, and learning between SuccessFactors and diverse 3rd-party systems, addressing complex business requirements and supporting concurrent employment scenarios.
- Worked closely with the client to design integrations adaptable to complex business rules and easily configurable for SAP SuccessFactors users, ensuring flexibility and user-friendliness.
- Advised on the organization of client SAP CPI tenant architecture and implementing best practices to streamline their migration from PI/PO to CPI.
- Provided strategic guidance on integrating new systems with CPI, ensuring efficiency, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
- Revamped the client's SAP CPI tenant for improved clarity and a more efficient transportation process. Redesigned and optimized integrations to enhance processing efficiency, strengthen security, and minimize message processing costs.
Senior Application Developer
Accenture
- Designed and implemented multiple integrations between SuccessFactors and Workforce Software for an organization with over 200,000 active employees.
- Persuaded SAP to revise and release a new version of SAP SuccessFactors standard integration to align with client expectations.
- Managed and maintained the transportation and configuration of SuccessFactors integrations across all project phases, including system integration testing, user acceptance testing, go-live, and hypercare.
Experience
SAP SuccessFactors 3rd-party Systems Integration with SAP CPI
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering
Riga Technical University - Riga, Latvia
Certifications
Record of Project Experience in SAP Business Technology Platform
SAP
SAP Certified Associate - Integration Consultant - SAP Sales and Service Cloud
SAP
SAP Certified Associate - Backend Developer - SAP Cloud Application Programming Model
SAP
SAP Certified Associate - Integration Developer
SAP
SAP Certified Associate - SAP Fiori Application Developer
SAP
SAP Certified Technology Associate - SAP Solution Manager Mandatory and Managed System Configuration
SAP
SAP Certified Development Specialist - ABAP for SAP HANA 2.0
SAP
SAP Certified Development Associate - ABAP with SAP NetWeaver 7.50
SAP
Skills
Libraries/APIs
REST APIs, SOAP APIs, SAP Customer Service (CS)
Tools
IntelliJ IDEA, Postman, SAP SuccessFactors, SoapUI, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Teams, AutoCAD, MATLAB, SAP Solution Management, SAP S/4HANA, Jira, Confluence, SAP Materials Management (MM), SAP Quality Management (QM), SAP Plant Maintenance (PM), SAP ChaRM, SAP Fiori, SAP UI5, Jenkins, GitHub, Google Workspace, SAPUI5, Adobe Forms
Languages
XML, ABAP, SQL, XSLT, JavaScript, XSD, Web Services Description Language (WSDL), SAPScript, HTML
Storage
JSON, SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Paradigms
Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Agile, Azure DevOps
Platforms
Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Windows
Other
SAP Cloud Platform Integration (CPI), SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), Groovy Scripting, Troubleshooting, CSV File Processing, Encryption, Encoding, Bruno, HR Integration, SFTP, OData, SAP Open Data Protocol (OData), EDMX, Microsoft OneDrive, Autodesk Revit, ARCHICAD, SAP ERP, SAP Sales and Distribution (SAP SD), ServiceNow, SAP FI, SAP Adobe Forms, SAP Smartforms, BAPI, Function Modules, User Exits, Workflow Management, Business Rules, Workforce Management (WFM), API Management, Axapta, Enova, Manhattan TMS (MATM), Google Pub/Sub, SAP Process Integration (PI), SAP Process Orchestration (PO)
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