RECORD: KUMAR, MANISH · CYPRESS, TX
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Enterprise AI & SAP Engineering · Since 2012

Manish Kumar.

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Manish Kumar

Senior SAP Product Owner at Toyota Motor North America. I have spent fourteen years running SAP systems that large companies can't afford to lose. Today I design how AI agents help operate them, inside enterprise security boundaries, with a person approving every change that matters. Each item on this page links to a public record or the original document.

IEEESenior Member · 101075797
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Body of Work

5 entries

Selected production work.

Architectural contribution · enterprise AI2023 to present

Agentic AI inside the enterprise security boundary

Design patterns that let AI agents handle operational work across applications, operating systems, cloud and identity while staying inside the security boundaries regulated companies require. The main ideas: cost-tiered inference routing, so model spend matches how hard each decision is; agents that compose tools across the full stack; and human approval gates built into the design from the start. These patterns run in production at one of the world's largest automakers and are described in my patent filings, papers and the Enterprise AI Architecture Handbook 2026.

Architecture overview ↗Handbook ↗
Specialist practiceToyota

Zero Downtime Option upgrades

I personally execute S/4HANA, GRC, and Fiori upgrades with SAP's ZDO, work that many companies bring in outside consultants to do. My practitioner's guide drew 11,400+ impressions and 1,235 article reads from 5,300 members, 79% outside my own network and two-thirds senior level.

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Client: ExxonMobil2018 to 2020

Tier 1 to Tier 3 support transformation

Designed end-to-end how one of the world's largest energy companies supports SAP: escalation paths, ownership boundaries, runbooks, and the depth to resolve platform issues internally.

Client: Cardinal Health2018

Cloud migration with full DR compliance

Led a Fortune 500 healthcare distributor's SAP estate to Google Cloud. The disaster-recovery design passed full RTO/RPO compliance testing.

Ernst & Young · Fortune 500 clients2021 to 2022

Zero Trust & DevSecOps for regulated SAP

Architecture for large transformations in regulated industries; my standard operating procedures were adopted as best practice across engagement teams.

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Patents

4 filings · 2 jurisdictions · 2 published

All filed independently of any employer.

Published
US 2026/0270274 A1 · App. 19/532,916

Multi-agent AI for autonomous cyber threat detection and remediation

Sole inventor and applicant · published 10 September 2026. A multi-agent AI system that detects, analyzes, simulates and remediates cyber threats across multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments, with SAP ecosystem integration and governance.

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Published
US 2026/0156048 A1 · App. 19/457,302

Federated AI-driven control for hybrid clouds

Co-inventor · filed Jan 2026 · published 4 June 2026. Nodes train models locally, so raw data never crosses cloud boundaries, while a coordination processor aggregates a federated global model.

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Under examination
USPTO 19/560,106 · Track One

PrismOS: agentic AI operating system

Sole inventor. Persistent knowledge graph, intent-to-agent orchestration, sandboxed multi-agent execution. Patent pending, and also released as open source under the MIT license.

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Registered
DE 20 2026 102 479 U1 · IPC G06F 21/53

Selective orchestration of confidential data

German utility model for selective orchestration of confidential-data processing in cloud environments. Filed 29 April 2026 · registered 18 May 2026 · published in the Patentblatt 25 June 2026 · in force.

DPMA Urkunde ↗DPMA register entry ↗
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Publications

1 book · 21 papers · 56 citations
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Recognition & Service

conferred 2026

Each of these was awarded by the issuing body. Certificate and credential numbers are listed so anyone can check them.

Exhibit ADistinguished Fellow, Soft Computing Research SocietyConferred 13 May 2026 · citation names AI-driven enterprise infrastructure, cybersecurity, agentic AI systems
CERT SCRS/DisFellow/2161
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Exhibit BSenior Member, IEEEElevated February 2026 · a grade held by about 10% of IEEE members · congratulated by the 2026 IEEE President
MEMBER 101075797
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Exhibit CFellow, IETEElected 31 March 2026 through formal Fellowship evaluation
F-507538 · CERT 10367
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Exhibit DFellow of Information Privacy, IAPPConferred 15 September 2026 on holding both CIPP/US and AIGP (AI Governance Professional) · does not expire
CREDENTIAL 000931704I
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Exhibit EKeynotes, chairing & judgingSession Chair, IEEE ICIEEE 2026 (MAHSA University, Kuala Lumpur, 11-12 Sep 2026 · IEEE Conference #69095) · Keynote, IEEE ICCETM 2025 (Western Sydney Univ.) · Keynote, ICCDM 2026 (Universiti Putra Malaysia) · Session Chair ×3 · Session Organizer · Judge, LaserHacks 2025 · 16 Web of Science verified reviews of 11 manuscripts for IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics and Internet Technology Letters
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Open Source

660+ stars · 400+ forks
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Writing

LinkedIn · Medium

Articles and posts about my work and open-source projects.

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Career Ledger

2012 to present
2023-NOWSenior SAP HANA BASIS Technology Product Owner, Toyota Motor North America, Plano TXACTIVESenior technical authority for production change assessment; AI-driven operations with human-approval gates; ZDO upgrades; organisation-wide change management via Cloud ALM.
2022-23SAP Architect, AA Solutions Inc., Houston TX99.8% availability for 3,000+ users across 25+ integrated systems.
2021-22Senior Consultant, Ernst & Young, Houston TXSAP architecture and Zero Trust for Fortune 500 transformations.
2021SAP BASIS Consultant, oXya, A Hitachi Group CompanySpecialist HANA administration, global managed services.
2018-20SAP BASIS Architect, Dash Technologies · Client: ExxonMobilTier 1 to Tier 3 support transformation; OS/DB migrations; multi-tenant HANA at global scale.
2018Lead S/4HANA Consultant, RD Tech · Client: Cardinal HealthSAP estate to Google Cloud; DR with full RTO/RPO compliance.
2017-18Lead SAP BASIS / HANA Consultant, Lera Technologies, Dallas TXS/4HANA implementations across the USA and Germany.
2015-17SAP BASIS HANA Consultant, Fujitsu, HyderabadGlobal manufacturing and retail clients.
2012-15SAP BASIS Consultant, YASH Technologies, HyderabadCareer start: implementations, migrations, upgrades.
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Verification Registry

open to anyone

Each link opens the public record or the original document. All original certificates are in the evidence folder at V-17. Questions: Manish-kumar@ieee.org.

V-01USPTO published applicationUS 2026/0270274 A1 · 10 September 2026✓ Publicuspto.gov ↗ V-02USPTO published applicationUS 2026/0156048 A1 · 4 June 2026✓ Publicuspto.gov ↗ V-03USPTO Patent Center19/560,106 · 19/532,916 · 19/457,302✓ Publicuspto.gov ↗ V-04DPMA German registerDE 20 2026 102 479 U1 · in force · published 25 June 2026✓ Publicdpma.de ↗ V-05ORCID verified recordpublications, software, patents in one registry✓ Publicorcid.org ↗ V-06Zenodo: Enterprise AI Architecture Handbook 2026DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22221080 · sole author✓ Publiczenodo ↗ V-07Nature Scientific ReportsDOI 10.1038/s41598-025-17604-y✓ Publicdoi.org ↗ V-08Google Scholarverified profile · 21 publications · 56 citations✓ Publicscholar ↗ V-09Web of Science reviewer registry16 verified review records of 11 manuscripts✓ Publicwos ↗ V-10IEEE Senior MemberNo. 101075797 · elevation letter from the 2026 IEEE President✓ Certificatedrive ↗ V-11IETE FellowF-507538 · Certificate 10367✓ Certificatedrive ↗ V-12SCRS Distinguished FellowCertificate SCRS/DisFellow/2161✓ Certificatedrive ↗ V-13IAPP Fellow of Information PrivacyCredential 000931704I · issued 15 September 2026✓ Publiccredential.net ↗ V-14PyPI: pwned-depsSLSA Level 3 build provenance✓ Publicpypi.org ↗ V-15LinkedInin/manish-kumar-sap✓ Publiclinkedin ↗ V-16Medium@mk.bhardwas12 · technical writing✓ Publicmedium ↗ V-17Original documentscertificates, USPTO receipts and letters✓ Opendrive ↗