Harish Alavala
Sr. Business Intelligence Technical Lead
Bengaluru,KA
Summary
Business Intelligence Manager steering BI strategy, KPI definition, and reporting governance across Power BI, Tableau, and cloud data platforms. Standardized 26–50 KPIs and data-quality rules to improve reporting accuracy, while building 20+ dashboards per year that reduced manual work and accelerated business decisions. Supports budgeting, resource estimates, and the creation of 3–6 statement-of-work documents per year for new and existing client engagements.
Overview
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4
Languages
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Certifications
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Technical Lead
Prodapt Solutions Ltd.
07.2022 - Current
- Architected and delivered end-to-end BI solutions and data visualizations using Power BI, Tableau Desktop and cloud data platforms (Azure, Snowflake).
- Led BI strategy, roadmap definition and governance frameworks to standardize data visualization, reporting and KPI measurement.
- Delivered 36% reduction in reporting time by redesigning data models and improving dashboard performance.
- Led BI strategy and defined roadmap and governance frameworks, standardizing data visualization, reporting, and KPI measurement.
- Led data quality initiatives, creating standardized metrics, definitions and governance rules to improve reporting accuracy.
- Experienced in writing queries to retrieve data from Snowflake and build complex dashboards.
- Provided architectural solutions and estimates for new requirements, supporting customer acquisition efforts.
- Led and managed onshore and offshore teams to ensure project alignment and execution.
- Contact: Harish Alavala - 9493060681
IT Analyst/BI Developer
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd
08.2011 - 07.2022
- Expertise in Tableau 2020.2/2019/2018/10.5/10.4/10.2, Tableau Desktop, Tableau Online, Tableau Public, Tableau Reader, SQL.
- End-to-end experience in designing and deploying Data visualizations using Tableau.
- Developed solution-driven dashboards utilizing various chart types, such as heat maps, geo maps, tree maps, pie charts, bar charts, line charts, area charts, scatter plots, and histograms, to facilitate data-driven decisions.
- Proficient in creating Calculations (Table Calculations, Hide Columns, Creating/Using Parameters, Totals) and Formatting (Annotations, Layout containers, Mark Labels, Rich Text Formatting).
- Led key stages of SDLC and STLC, including requirements gathering, FSD writing, testing, and implementation, ensuring alignment with project goals.
- Exhaustive experience in the following four very important stages of SDLC and STLC: Requirements Gathering, FSD Writing, Testing and Implementation.
- Analyzed system performance to identify improvement areas, driving enhancements in operational efficiency.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
SASTRA University
Thanjavur, India 04.2001 -
Skills
Tableau
Power BI
Oracle SQL
Snowflake
Azure Data Bricks
SQL tuning
Python Basics
BI strategy
Reporting governance
KPI standardization
Data quality management
Stakeholder management
Budget planning
Business case development
Team management
Dashboard development
Data visualization
Dimensional modeling
SQL reporting
Requirements gathering
Forecasting
Accomplishments
- Received a tag "Problem Solver" for the impact created with the dashboards created for the customer decision making.
- The article written on the project is published on the company's website (04/2021 - Present)
Certification
Databricks Certified Data Analyst Associate (12/2025 - Present)
Interests
Coin collection, Reading Books, Cricket
Timeline
Senior Technical Lead
Prodapt Solutions Ltd.
07.2022 - Current
IT Analyst/BI Developer
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd
08.2011 - 07.2022
Bachelor of Science - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
SASTRA University
04.2001 -
ORGANIZATIONS/CLIENTS
- Prodapt Solutions / City Fibre, Airband and Hotwire Communications (07/2022 - Present)
- Senior Technical Lead
- TCS / New York Life Insurance (10/2016 - 07/2022)
- Sr. Tableau Developer
- TCS / JP Morgan Chase (08/2011 - 08/2016)
- ETL QA Lead
ACHIEVEMENTS
- The article written on the project is published on the company's website (04/2021 - Present).
- Received a tag "Problem Solver" for the impact created with the dashboards created for the customer decision making.
- Awarded "5 Keys" as part of excellence at work by the client at JPMC.
- Awarded "Star Performer" 4 times by TCS.