Kannan Kumar

Principal Ai Scientist @SAP

Berlin, DE

Led development of SAP’s first domain-adapted Code LLMs (ABAP, CDS) using state-of-the-art pre and post-training techniques; improved code-completion accuracy and reduced model hallucinations- Built and shipped the sap-abap-1 model powering SAP Joule Assistant and SAP IDEs, used by thousands of developers- Designed SAP’s internal evaluation framework for Code LLMs, defining custom metrics for generation, explainability, and test synthesis- Architected scalable distributed training pipelines (Megatron-LM, NeMo), optimizing training cost and throughput.

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering

SYMBIOSIS INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Bachelor's degree, BCA, Computer Applications