Likhitha Guttapalli

Summary

BI Developer with 3 years of experience designing and delivering scalable business intelligence solutions and data analytics reporting. Proven ability to optimize dashboard performance by reducing refresh times to under 3 minutes on datasets exceeding 20M+ rows and improving reporting efficiency through automated ETL pipelines. Experienced in developing interactive dashboards and supporting data-driven decision-making for 200+ stakeholders. Proficient in Tableau, Power BI, Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake, and Microsoft Fabric, with strong expertise in DAX, data modeling, and performance optimization. Skilled in SQL and Python for data processing, transformation, and analysis.

Overview

years of professional experience

Certifications

Work History

Tableau Developer

Premier Inc

Charlotte

12.2025 - Current

Architected and deployed 12 enterprise Tableau dashboards delivering real-time insights into key performance metrics, enabling data-driven decision-making for 4,400+ organizations and 300,000+ end users
Engineered advanced Tableau calculations using LOD expressions (FIXED, INCLUDE, EXCLUDE) to build scalable KPI frameworks, improving accuracy of trend analysis and year-over-year performance reporting
Designed and optimized Snowflake data warehouse models integrating multi-source datasets, reducing dashboard query latency from 30 seconds to under 4 seconds on datasets exceeding 20M+ rows.
Automated 8 ETL data pipelines using Tableau Prep and Azure Data Factory, processing 6M+ records daily with integrated data validation and error handling.
Streamlined reporting workflows using Tableau Server scheduling and subscription services, saving 15+ hours weekly on manual reporting.
Established robust row-level security frameworks using entitlement-based access controls, ensuring secure data access for 150+ users across multiple organizational hierarchies.
Built parameter-driven, interactive dashboards with drill-down capabilities, enabling seamless navigation from high-level KPIs to granular performance metrics.
Standardized 30+ key metrics and developed governed data sources with cross-functional stakeholders, enhancing data consistency and alignment in enterprise reporting.

PowerBI Developer

Siemens Technology

Bangalore

01.2022 - 12.2023

Delivered 14 Power BI dashboards for finance and engineering leadership, improving reporting efficiency by 40% and replacing 12 legacy Excel reports across 5 global business units
Developed advanced DAX measures for financial and operational KPIs, improving reporting accuracy and analytical depth by 30%.
Created Power BI Paginated Reports for financial close and operational reviews, supporting 80+ stakeholders across APAC and Europe
Integrated Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse for data staging and transformation, reducing refresh time by 75% (90 to 22 minutes)
Automated reporting workflows using Power Automate, saving 20+ hours/month and enabling real-time alerts for threshold breaches
Implemented dynamic row-level security (RLS) across 6 workspaces to enforce data access by business unit, cost center, management hierarchy, and engineering division, ensuring SOX and GDPR compliance for financial and operational reporting
Designed star and snowflake schema data models in Azure Synapse Analytics, integrating SAP FICO and multi-source datasets, reducing query time by 80% (45s to <8s) on 15M+ rows
Built 10 ETL pipelines using Azure Data Factory, automating ingestion from 18+ sources with error handling, audit logging, and incremental loading, improving efficiency by 35%.
Conducted UAT with 25+ stakeholders, resolved 30+ data issues, and achieved 98% user acceptance across multiple releases

Education

Master’s - Data Analytics Engineering

Northeastern University

Boston, MA, US

12-2025

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

BMS Institute of Technology

Bangalore, India

05-2023

Skills

Data Visualization & Business Intelligence: Power BI Desktop, Power BI Service, Tableau, Dashboard Development, Data Visualization, Interactive Reporting, Data Storytelling, Excel (Power Query, Pivot tables)

Data Engineering & Analytics Engineering: SQL Transformation Workflows, Data Pipelines, Data Ingestion, Data Cleansing, Data Standardization, Production Data Workflows

SQL & Data Warehousing: SQL, Snowflake, Joins, Aggregations, Window Functions, Query Optimization, Data Warehouse Architecture

Programming & Automation: Python (Pandas, NumPy), Data Processing, Workflow Automation, Automated Data Tasks

Data Modeling: Dimensional Data Modeling, Star Schema, Snowflake Schema, Fact & Dimension Tables, Direct Query Data Investigation & Quality: Data Validation, Data Lineage Tracing, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Data Integrity, Data Quality Monitoring

Cloud & Data Platforms: Microsoft Azure (Data Factory, Synapse Analytics, SQL Database, Data Lake Gen2), Snowflake Data Warehouse, AWS (S3, EC2, Athena)

AI Tools & Frameworks: Large Language Models (LLMs), Prompt Engineering, OpenAI API, GitHub Copilot, ML Flow,

Model fine-tuning, LLM Evaluation Framework

Tools & Collaboration: Git, CI/CD Pipelines, Documentation, Stakeholder Collaboration, AI-Assisted Development Tools

Certification

PL-300(Microsoft Powerbi data analytics associate)

Timeline