Axel B.

Microsoft Fabric & Power BI Developer

Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Experience

May 2025 - Sep 2025
5 months

Microsoft Fabric & Power BI Developer

Energy Industry

  • Migration of Tableau dashboards to Power BI, including transfer of KPI logic

  • Reconstruction and optimization of ETL pipelines in Microsoft Fabric with Dataflows and PySpark, including cost optimization

  • Design and implementation of a Medallion architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold)

  • Establishment of governance standards and creation of documentation

  • Close collaboration with stakeholders to define and validate reporting requirements

  • Onboarding of business units into the self-service data platform

  • Successfully migrated reports to Power BI

  • Medallion architecture established as the foundation for self-service BI

  • Data processing times significantly reduced through optimized pipelines and PySpark in Fabric

  • Business units enabled to create their own reports in Power BI

Jul 2024 - Mar 2025
9 months

Microsoft Fabric & Power BI Developer

International Logistics Corporation

  • Development of Power BI dashboards and apps for supply chain and management reporting

  • Consolidation of data from SQL Server, Snowflake, Databricks, and SAP into Microsoft Fabric

  • Expansion and optimization of the Data Warehouse

  • Development of high-performance ETL workflows with Dataflow, SQL scripts, and PySpark

  • Harmonization of KPIs for standardized reporting

  • Strengthening of data governance structures (access rights, roles, data quality, RLS)

  • Training of users in the use of Power BI

  • Proof of concept for real-time reporting with Apache Kafka in Power BI

  • Requirements analysis with business departments

  • Proof of concept for real-time reporting with Apache Kafka in Fabric and Power BI

  • Successful consolidation of heterogeneous data sources in Microsoft Fabric

  • Development of Power BI dashboards for management and supply chain reporting

Apr 2024 - Sep 2024
6 months

Microsoft Fabric & Power BI Developer

Entertainment Industry

  • Setup of a test environment in Microsoft Fabric to evaluate functions and architectural approaches

  • Development of initial ETL processes in Fabric for data source integration

  • Design and validation of a Medallion architecture as the foundation for a future self-service data platform

  • Creation of POC reports in Power BI to demonstrate the platform’s capabilities

  • Documentation of results and derivation of recommendations for a potential rollout

  • Estimation and analysis of costs as well as capacity management within the Fabric evaluation

  • Proof of feasibility of Fabric & Power BI as a future-proof analytics platform

  • Establishment of a pilot framework as the foundation for potential organization-wide adoption

Aug 2023 - Mar 2024
8 months

Power BI Developer

International Trade Corporation

  • Creation of Power BI reports with parameters, slicers, bookmarks, and complex DAX calculations

  • Execution of detailed analyses on product and customer performance (e.g., ABC analyses, cohort analyses, CLV, conversion rates)

  • Modeling of data structures using Star Schema and Snowflake Schema

  • Development and optimization of ETL pipelines (SQL, Python, Power Query) for consolidating data from multiple source systems

  • Documentation in Confluence

  • Management of user roles, permissions, and workspaces in Power BI Service

  • Training of Power BI power users in applying best practices

  • Setup of custom validation rules and automated notifications

  • Reduced processing time by 40% through refactoring of a complex ETL pipeline

  • Delivery of management dashboards

Mar 2022 - Jun 2023
1 year 4 months

Power BI Developer

Automotive Supplier Industry

  • Development and maintenance of Power BI dashboards for controlling and management

  • Implementation of advanced features in Power BI (DAX measures, parameters, interactions with slicers and bookmarks)

  • Modeling of data marts to optimize storage and query performance

  • Creation and optimization of ETL pipelines with Python, Oracle SQL (views, tables, PL/SQL), and Power Query / Dataflows

  • Development of monitoring dashboards with predefined automated notifications in Power BI

  • Adaptation of data governance structures (role and permission concepts)

  • Training of end users in the use of Power BI dashboards and in building Power BI reports

  • Development of high-performance and user-friendly dashboards

  • Performance optimization through efficient data models and optimized ETL pipelines

Sep 2021 - Jan 2022
5 months

Power BI Developer

Telecommunication Industry

  • Development of dashboards in Power BI for monitoring and analyzing the recommendation system
  • Integration and optimization of ETL processes with Python and PostgreSQL
  • Administration of Power BI Service workspaces as well as role and permission concepts
  • Development of a notification dashboard for monitoring ETL and batch pipelines
  • Handover and knowledge transfer of the developed dashboards and processes to an internal BI analyst
Jan 2021 - Jul 2021
7 months

Power BI Developer

Pharmaceutical Industry

  • Development of T-SQL-based ETL processes and data marts
  • Creation of Power BI reports for 30M+ records
  • Administration of Power BI Service including user and role management
  • Performance optimization through efficient data modeling and DAX optimizations
Aug 2020 - Dec 2020
5 months

Power BI Developer

Banking and Financial Services

  • Creation of interactive Power BI reports

  • Reconstruction and optimization of the Data Warehouse to accelerate data provisioning and reduce storage requirements

  • Optimization of existing Power BI reports to shorten loading and response times

  • 15x acceleration of Power BI reports through optimization of the Data Warehouse and reports

Jan 2019 - Dec 2020
2 years

Power BI Developer

Telecommunication Industry

  • Development of Power BI dashboards for sales and controlling analyses
  • Creation and optimization of ETL pipelines
  • Requirements analysis with business units to define relevant KPIs, reports, and data models
  • Development of data marts in MS-SQL
Jan 2011 - Dec 2019
9 years

BI Consultant & Data Analyst

Various Clients

  • Creation of reports and analyses for international clients in industries such as healthcare, banking, and higher education
  • Execution of cost analyses and forecasts to optimize IT systems
  • Development of SQL-based ETL pipelines for data integration
  • Development and delivery of dashboards with Tableau and Power BI
  • Collaboration with clients’ IT departments to prepare and process infrastructure and business data
  • Application of statistical methods to improve SEO analyses (on-page and off-page optimization)
  • Analysis of web traffic and business KPIs (e.g., Customer Lifetime Value, Conversion Rate, Bounce Rate)

Summary

I have extensive expertise in Microsoft Fabric and Power BI, building agile and optimized data solutions across multiple industries such as energy, logistics, entertainment, automotive, and telecommunications. I design Medallion architectures, streamline ETL pipelines with PySpark and SQL, and excel at consolidating heterogeneous data sources for self-service BI and real-time reporting.

I focus on delivering measurable improvements, reducing processing times and establishing efficient data governance. My background in data science and applied mathematics, along with several key certifications, underpins my ability to translate complex requirements into simple, impactful analytics solutions.

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced

Education

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Master in Data Science · Data Science

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Bachelor in Applied Mathematics · Applied Mathematics

Certifications & licenses

Databricks Certified Associate Developer For Apache Spark 3.0

Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Scientist

Microsoft Certified: Fabric Data Engineer

Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst

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