Charith De Mel
Verified Expert in Engineering
Microsoft Power BI and Azure Developer
Charith is a seasoned data enthusiast who loves to learn and always accepts a challenge. His career thus far in the data sphere has been in research publishing, education, manufacturing, and strategy, but he's always looking to explore other areas of data and analytics. Charith has a demonstrated history of being a dependable employee and a hard worker with solid problem-solving and technical skills.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Microsoft Power BI, Windows, SQL, Azure
The most amazing...
...solution I’ve made scraped data from fabric-knitting machines and delivered OI management to a manufacturing facility using Data Factory and Power BI.
Work Experience
Power BI Developer
PepsiCo - Omnichannel
- Developed front-end reporting applications using Microsoft Power BI, and SSRS.
- Conducted both functional and non-functional testing to verify aspects such as reliability, performance, and usability.
- Corrected errors in software to fix performance issues and improve usability.
Power BI Developer
SalesLogs
- Integrated Power BI embedded report objects to SalesLogs (multi-tenant SaaS) application with RLS-based data isolation in Power BI.
- Designed and developed data extraction, modeling, and created reports and dashboards with custom-made visuals in Power BI.
- Developed custom visuals for Power BI using Power BI custom visual tool kit (pbiviz) and React.
- Configured deployment pipelines for Power BI artifact on Azure DevOps.
Senior Analytics Engineer
Wiley Global Technology, Pvt Ltd
- Transformed an enterprise data warehouse from Netezza to Snowflake and reimplemented an old Informatica-based pipeline using a Python-based in-house built ETL tool.
- Developed and supported applications in Power BI/Qlik or other similar analytics tools and applications that required web integration across analytics and data platforms.
- Contributed to the inception and idealization of new efforts (prototyping and POCs).
Business Application Consultant, Data
MAS
- Developed and maintained an ETL process to pump data to Azure Data Lake from various data sources through Azure Data Factory.
- Designed and developed a data warehouse to cater to the requirements of various business users ( analysts, data scientists/analytics engineers).
- Helped business users derive insights from the processed data through Power BI.
- Managed a team of four developers to develop and maintain a data platform for the company.
Experience
PROFAB | MAS Fabrics
Technologies: SQL, Azure Data Factory, Power BI
SSI (Similar Setting Identification in the Textile Industry) | MAS Fabrics
My team developed a data-driven application to identify design with similar settings through a mathematical model and I acted in the lead developer role.
Technologies: SQL, Python, C#
Implementing Power BI Embedded Reporting to SalesLogs
Performance Reporting | PepsiCo Omnichannel
Education
Master's Degree (Reading) in Computer Science
University of Moratuwa - Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
Bachelor's Degree in Science, Statistics, and Operations Research
University of Peradeniya - Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
Certifications
Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate
Microsoft
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services Training and Certification
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, D3.js
Tools
Microsoft Power BI, Visual Studio, Qlik Sense, SSAS, Apache Airflow
Languages
SQL, Python, C#, TypeScript, Snowflake, Power Query M
Paradigms
ETL, Azure DevOps
Frameworks
.NET
Platforms
Azure, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Microsoft BI Stack, Windows, Dedicated SQL Pool (formerly SQL DW), Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Storage
Azure SQL Databases, Azure SQL, SQL Server DBA, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), Netezza
Other
Azure Data Factory, Computer Science, Science, Dashboards, Reports, Data Engineering
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