Diwakar Vadde

•Developed and optimized Power BI reports and dashboards for enterprise users, using advanced DAX calculations, Power Query (M) transformations. •Create reusable semantic models, shared datasets, and star/snowflake schemas to keep reporting clean, scalable, and fast. •Use Power Query, Dataflows Gen2, and Microsoft Fabric pipelines to integrate data from SQL Server, Synapse, Snowflake, APIs, SharePoint, Excel, and cloud storage. •Manage workspace governance, dataset refresh, deployment pipelines, user permissions, and datasets in Power BI Service. •Administer and troubleshoot On-Premises Data Gateways fix refresh failures, credential issues, gateway timeouts, and scheduled refresh problems. •Implement RLS, OLS, sensitivity labels, and data governance policies to secure enterprise reporting and ensure compliance. •Optimize reports with VertiPaq Analyzer, DAX Studio, aggregation tables, query folding, and performance tuning. •Monitor capacity usage, dataset performance, and system health through Admin Portal and Premium Metrics to prevent outages. •Handle L2/L3 support for Power BI, Fabric, and data integration platforms resolving DAX bugs, model issues, refresh failures, and broken data pipelines. •Work with Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse & Data Engineering components to build ingestion, transformation, and loading pipelines. •Support cross-functional teams with data validation, metadata management, lineage checks, and quality assurance for integrated datasets. •Collaborate with product owners, data engineers, and analysts to gather requirements and convert them into clean insights. •Maintain documentations, SOPs, and troubleshooting guides for smoother operations and team onboarding. •Ensure stable data refresh across environments (DEV/QA/PROD) with parameterized queries, robust connections, and automated validation checks. •Provide ongoing support for data integrations, pipeline failures, schema, and API-related issues impacting analytics workloads.

Worked on Microsoft enterprise cloud and data projects with a focus on Power BI and Power Platform. Supported and enhanced business intelligence solutions, performed incident analysis, and contributed to platform stability through proactive troubleshooting. Key Responsibilities: • Assisted in building, publishing, and maintaining Power BI reports and dashboards, implementing advanced DAX measures and visualizations to support data-driven decision-making. • Supported Power BI Service operations including dataset refreshes, workspace access configuration, and troubleshooting visual/report-level errors. • Created and modified Power Apps for internal process automation, working with connectors, expressions, and UI components for seamless user experience. • Investigated and resolved incident tickets related to Power BI performance, data refresh failures, and Azure connectivity using Kusto Query Language (KQL) and telemetry tools. • Worked with Power Automate flows to automate notifications and recurring tasks across Power Platform environments. • Collaborated with senior engineers and Microsoft stakeholders to escalate and resolve platform issues, contributing to successful issue triaging and resolution within SLAs. • Documented troubleshooting steps, configuration setups, and recurring issue fixes in internal wikis for team enablement and faster resolution cycles.