Tsinghua University
2015/09 – 2017/06
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering
Beijing, China
Rui Ban
Education
Tsinghua University
2011/09 – 2015/06
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
Beijing, China
Work Experience
SAP
2018/03 – Present
Data & Analytics
Xi'an, China
Development Expert
2026/04 – Present
Senior Software Engineer
2022/04 – 2026/04
Software Engineer
2018/03 – 2022/08
SAP Business Data Cloud
2024/04 – Present
- Lead a team designing and shipping data product discovery & lifecycle management and user-managed data products — a core module of SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC).
- Drove adoption of Vibe Coding & Agentic Engineering on the team, including Claude Code and related tooling.
- Built the BDC Debug Agent and a Claude Code plugin — cross-team incident triage time reduced by ~90%.
- Designed and shipped AI-assisted metadata enrichment in production: summaries, documentation generation, and data-tag generation.
SAP Datasphere
2023/01 – 2024/03
- Owned the message-queue migration end-to-end, delivered with zero production incidents.
- Re-architected the metadata extraction framework, enabling dynamic incremental extraction at scale.
SAP Data Intelligence
2018/03 – 2023/01
- Contributed across multiple modules — Pipeline Modeler, Replication Management, System Management, Connection Management.
- Designed a generic cloud-to-on-premise connectivity solution based on virtual IPs and service mesh — applications connect with zero code changes. Granted as a US patent.
- Owned SAP InfraBox, the open-source CI/CD platform for SAP Data Intelligence. Architected a multi-cluster HA design that resolved long-standing stability issues — sustains 200K+ builds / day.
Huawei
2017/07 – 2018/03
Database Kernel Developer, GaussDB Storage Team
Xi'an, China
- Worked on the storage engine of GaussDB (OLTP database), focused on performance optimization.
- Built performance diagnosis system views used internally for analysis and tuning.
- Improved TPC-C benchmark by 100% in two months via bottleneck analysis, parameter tuning, and code-level optimization.
- Delivered Linux hugepage support, gaining an additional 20% on TPC-C.
Patents
Generative Data Modeling Using Large Language Model
US 12,417,220
Connectivity Between Cloud and On-Premises Systems
US 12,335,227
Graph-based Diagnostics and Recovery for Cloud System
US 12,056,520
Awards
SAP Labs China MD Award
— SAP Labs China, sole individual recipient of the Product & Innovation Success award
2025
Outstanding Patent Hero Award
— SAP
2025
Patent Filing Award
— SAP Labs China
2021, 2023
SAP High Impact Award
— SAP
2022
Champion of Hackathon · The Great Developer
— SAP Labs Xi'an, as team lead
2020
SAP Academy for Engineering
— SAP, pilot session, 45 selected globally
2019
Most Valuable Technology Breakthrough
— Huawei Gauss Lab, team award
2018