Michał Kaliński
Verified Expert in Engineering
Data Visualization Developer
Warsaw, Poland
Toptal member since February 15, 2022
Michał is a seasoned software developer passionate about data, from analysis and transformation to presentation. He has a professional career of 15+ years in the IT field and more than five in BI development with Tableau, SQL, Oracle, and Excel. Michał enjoys working with Tableau, deep-dive into the client's needs, presenting and delivering stunning dashboards that not only showcase the data but that walk users through creating a unified experience towards conclusions.
Portfolio
Experience
- SQL - 15 years
- Excel VBA - 10 years
- SQL Server DBA - 8 years
- Agile Project Management - 8 years
- Dashboards - 6 years
- Data Visualization - 6 years
- Tableau Desktop Pro - 6 years
- Agile - 5 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Tableau Desktop Pro, SQL
The most amazing...
...thing I've built is a predictive app. It is used by the client as the base to year-to-year budget discussions to calculate the hourly engineering rate.
Work Experience
Data Engineer with Tableau Expertise
Radiant Law Limited
- Cooperated in defining full matter workflow to generate key data for reporting purposes in MySQL database. Developed a set of procedures to create a data transformation/aggregation pipeline. Optimization and maintenance.
- Developed and maintained Tableau dashboards to report law matters at various dimensions, levels, and calculations.
- Cooperated closely with the CEO to define the BI solution path of reporting and maintaining. Redefined the previous R code to redirect to database scheduled automated workflows.
Senior Tableau Architect
Billennium
- Played a key role in cooperating with Billennium's customers in the BI projects.
- Designed Tableau, data, big data, software, and business solutions.
- Led and coordinated the software development team.
- Created PoCs and reports for several clients, answering their needs.
- Collaborated on designing and delivering a sales dashboard for a monitoring system.
- Developed a set of dashboards for a TV company with Tableau and Snowflake cooperation.
BI Consultant
ITDS
- Collaborated with the client, UBS, providing consultancy expertise in proofs-of-concept (POC) development, report optimization, and BI systems design.
- Added new clients and new Tableau solutions to the company's portfolio.
- Developed competencies in big data solutions and banking operations.
- Designed Tableau, business solutions, and PoCs for several clients.
- Optimized and implemented new solutions on the clients' BI software, following best practices.
- Collaborated on the design and delivery of model relations dashboards.
- Engaged with several professionals while working on the banking report solution.
- Helped recruit new team members, ensuring they met the required technical knowledge.
Co-founder and IT Consultant
KRK Partnerzy Digital Solutions
- Co-founded a technological and business organization focused on IT and BI services.
- Acquired experience in day-to-day management and supervision.
- Managed clients, team-building exercises, and software, as remote specialists.
- Conceptualized and built a digital project to predict work efficiency granted by the EU founding.
- Supervised web page development as part of my role.
Senior Data Engineer
Baker Hughes, a GE Company
- Owned the BI environment, cloud and stationery, the data warehouse (SQL Server, Greenplum), and Tableau reports.
- Supported 20 projects with day-to-day and ad hoc reporting needs.
- Managed the complete software solution in close cooperation with internal customers as the consulting expert on BI trends.
- Followed Agile and Scrum methodologies throughout project management.
Lead Software Engineer
GE Company Polska (EDC)
- Developed, updated, and managed SQL servers and the data flow DB integration process.
- Used a SQL EDC DB to create business quality and operations metrics.
- Developed, under request, C#, VBA, Access, and batch files business tools to help integrate the whole process.
- Implemented Tableau for reports and data preparation.
- Doubled the operational reports portfolio by adding reports based on demand and capacity.
- Created and standardized the work in SQL server and Tableau environment, increasing the number of frequent users by more than 40%.
- Prepared SQL queries of ad-hoc and regular business data reports.
- Participated in the business operations meetings to update business strategy upon metrics and results.
- Provided business-level user support for operational metrics data consistency, SQL, and Tableau.
- Acted as a coach in Excel VBA EDC at the center of skills of excellence.
Lecturer
Kotarbinski University of Information Technology and Management in Olsztyn
- Planned, created, and delivered lessons for classes of 11 to 20 students in the fields of mechatronics and information.
- Taught students across Excel, VBA, script languages, MATLAB, design, and coding principles.
- Collaborated with other professionals in defining best practices to help students deliver the best results.
Lead Software Engineer
GE Company Polska (EDC)
- Developed, maintained, and implemented business and engineering applications while participating in other programming tasks for the oil and gas industry.
- Improved my competencies and skills as a developer and SQL database administrator.
- Engaged with multiple stakeholders, including business users, IT developers, high managers, CEOs, global organizations, sales, metrics department, local office community, engineering, operations, quality, project management, and HR.
- Worked in application development and bug fixing.
- Participated in all project planning phases, prepared programming documentation, designed and performed application testing, and owned SQL database management tasks.
Experience
Prediction Dashboard for an Engineering Site
Pharma Accessibility and Validation Dashboards
TV Dashboards
Education
Master's Degree in Automatics and Robotics
Gdańsk University of Technology - Gdańsk, Poland
Certifications
Six Sigma: Green Belt
Lean Six Sigma
AgilePM Foundation
APMG International
Skills
Tools
Tableau Desktop Pro, Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, Microsoft Word, MATLAB, Visual Studio, Perforce, Jira
Languages
SQL, T-SQL (Transact-SQL), C#, Excel VBA, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), C++, HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, Python, R, Snowflake
Paradigms
Business Intelligence (BI), ETL, Agile, Automation, Agile Project Management, Six Sigma, Scrum, Waterfall Development
Storage
Relational Databases, Data Integration, Databases, MySQL, Database Architecture, Microsoft SQL Server, JSON, Database Administration (DBA), Greenplum, SQL Server DBA, PostgreSQL, Redshift
Platforms
Windows, Oracle, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Frameworks
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), .NET
Other
Data Visualization, Dashboards, Data Engineering, Tableau Server, Data Analysis, Data Analytics, Dashboard Development, Dashboard Design, Data Reporting, Data Structures, CSV, Reports, Optimization, APIs, Data Modeling, Data Science, Data Warehousing, Business Analysis, Data Warehouse Design, Reporting, Computer Science, Robotics, Programming, Algorithms, PLC, Lean Project Management, Microsoft Data Transformation Services (now SSIS), Google Data Studio
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