Axel Berron

Microsoft Fabric & Power BI Developer

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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

  • 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

  • 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)

Skills

Power Bi Stack:

  • Parameter
  • Slicer
  • Drillthrough
  • Tooltips
  • Row-level Security (Rls)
  • Object-level Security (Ols)
  • Power Bi Desktop
  • Tabular Models
  • Dax
  • Tmdl
  • Power Bi Service
  • Power Query
  • Tabular Editor
  • Bravo
  • Alm Toolkit
  • Dax Studio

Microsoft Fabric Stack:

  • Onelake
  • Lakehouse
  • Warehouse
  • Dataflow
  • Pipelines
  • Real-time Analytics
  • Notebooks
  • Activator
  • Cost Optimization & Capacity Management
  • Databricks
  • Sql

Technologies:

  • Etl/elt
  • Apache Spark (Pyspark)
  • Databricks
  • Power Apps
  • Power Automate
  • Azure Cloud
  • Data Modeling
  • Azure Devops
  • Git
  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • Apache Airflow
  • Dbt
  • Azure Data Factory
  • Python

Databases:

  • Oracle Sql
  • Sql Server / Ms-sql
  • Postgresql
  • Azure Sql
  • Snowflake
  • Salesforce
  • Star Schema
  • Snowflake Schema

Frameworks:

  • Scrum
  • Agile
  • Data Governance
  • Best Practices For Performance & Security

Programming Languages:

  • Python
  • Bash Scripting

Languages

German
Advanced
English
Advanced
Spanish
Advanced
French
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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