Phalgun Chalikonda
Verified Expert in Engineering
Business Intelligence Developer
Brampton, ON, Canada
Toptal member since March 4, 2024
Phalgun is a senior BI engineer with nearly a decade of experience building robust dashboards and performing ETL tasks for clients like IGT, AspenTech, JANA, and AmerisourceBergen. He specializes in SAP BusinessObjects, Tableau, Power BI, Google Data (now Looker) Studio, Azure Data Factory, Microsoft SSIS and SSMS, and BigQuery. Phalgun's expertise includes transforming businesses through innovative solutions that streamline processes, boost efficiency, and enhance productivity.
Portfolio
Experience
- Tableau - 8 years
- SAP BusinessObjects (BO) - 8 years
- SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) - 8 years
- Microsoft Power BI - 6 years
- Power BI Desktop - 6 years
- Azure - 3 years
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - 3 years
- Google BigQuery - 3 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Windows, Slack, GitHub, Teams, Linux, Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
The most amazing...
...Power BI and Tableau dashboards I've developed provided real-time insights, enabling the company to make data-driven decisions and earning me much recognition.
Work Experience
Senior BI Developer
AmerisourceBergen
- Created SAP BusinessObjects reports and handled migration projects—converting the reports to Microsoft Power BI—for clients like Pfizer, Bayer, and Apotex.
- Tracked and fixed bugs using Jira as a reporting tool.
- Handled critical performance issues and the latest change requests from different clients to create a robust dashboard that commonly serves all the teams.
Senior Data Specialist
JANA
- Developed several dashboards for different clients and created ETL pipelines in Azure and GCP.
- Tracked and fixed bugs using Jira as a reporting tool.
- Worked with millions of records of data and handled performance issues at the ETL and reporting ends.
- Gained experience building multiple data pipelines, end-to-end ETL, and ELT processes for data ingestion and transformation in GCP and coordinated tasks among the team.
- Built datasets and tables in Big Query and loaded data from cloud storage.
- Implemented Airflow DAG for task execution and monitoring process.
Data Reporting Analyst – Tableau and Power BI
AspenTech
- Developed complex dashboards with the organization's data and accomplished the migration project, converting reports from local custom reports to Power BI.
- Tracked and fixed bugs using Jira as a reporting tool.
- Created schedules, monitored the dashboards, and engaged in administrative activities.
Software Lead Engineer
HCL Technologies
- Developed complex dashboards and directly interacted with clients in end-to-end development, including training.
- Tracked and fixed bugs using Jira as a reporting tool.
- Worked on multiple production environments and handled critical performance issues, multitasking in leading the team and developing solutions for the latest requirements per new change requests.
Experience
Sales Management Dashboard
https://www.loom.com/share/dff05d952a17404fb8f3c152ea385740?sid=56650591-fb38-46a2-b451-add0b7d7d8c5Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University - Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, India
Certifications
Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst
Microsoft
Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals
Microsoft
Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals
Microsoft
Certified Tableau Desktop Specialist
Tableau Software, LLC
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
Microsoft
Skills
Tools
Microsoft Power BI, Power BI Desktop, Tableau, Power BI Report Server, Jira, GitHub, Tableau Desktop Pro, Slack, Power BI Mobile
Languages
SQL, Python
Paradigms
Business Intelligence (BI)
Platforms
Windows, Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Linux, Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
Storage
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), IBM Db2, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
Other
SAP BusinessObjects (BO), Tableau Server, Azure Data Factory, Data Visualization, Data Analysis, Data Analytics, Data Reporting, Dashboards, Google BigQuery, Google Data Studio, Teams
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