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Mohammed Kapdawala

Mohammed Kapdawala

Mumbai

Summary

Dynamic Leader as Principal Consultant with 10 years of experience in Business Intelligence and Data Engineering, specializing in data platform transformations, BI tool migrations, and AI-driven solutions. Proven track record in leading high-impact pre-sales engagements, architecting complex data architectures, and delivering end-to-end BI solutions for large-scale organizations. Expertise spans across Qlik Sense, Power BI, Tableau, Microsoft Fabric & Databricks with a focus on innovative migrations and scalable data lakehouse designs.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Principal Consultant

Celebal Technologies
Mumbai
06.2024 - Current
  • Promoted to Principal Consultant, leading strategic engagements across pre-sales, solution design, and technical delivery for data and BI solutions.
  • Managing teams ranging from 3 to 30+ members, ensuring seamless project delivery and client satisfaction.
  • Delivered 40+ pre-sales solutions and executed 10+ large-scale projects covering BI tools (Qlik Sense, QlikView, Power BI, Tableau) and migrations (QlikView to Qlik Sense, Qlik Sense to Power BI, Tableau to Power BI, Lumira to Tableau).
  • Designed and implemented Data Lakehouse solutions leveraging Databricks and Microsoft Fabric, including critical migrations such as Synapse to Fabric/Databricks.
  • Led successful BI setups and data platform migrations, architecting robust and scalable solutions tailored to client needs.
  • Spearheading AI-based assistant deliveries while focusing on end-to-end data platforms and BI implementations, with a roadmap to integrate AI-driven insights into solutions.

Senior Consultant - BI

Celebal Technologies
Mumbai
07.2022 - 05.2024
  • Joined as Senior Consultant, initially leading a team of 20 consultants to deliver comprehensive BI and data solutions.
  • Assumed multi-faceted roles including Pre-Sales Lead, Technical Delivery Lead, Solution Architect, and BI Developer/Data Engineer for various projects.
  • Delivered BI migration and retro-fitment projects, transitioning tools such as QlikView to Power BI and modernizing data ecosystems.
  • Played a pivotal role in designing Microsoft Fabric Solutions, modernizing enterprise data landscapes.

Practice Lead - BI

IRT Digital Analytics Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
01.2018 - 07.2022
  • Started out as Sr. Consultant - BI back in 2018 & since then worked on critical projects with various clients spread across sectors such as Automobile, Pharmaceutical, Healthcare, Insurance, etc.
  • Experienced working with various BI tools such as Qlik Sense, QlikView, Power BI & Tableau.
  • Worked with & lead various Delivery Teams, Pre-Sales Team & Support Solutions teams.
  • Worked as Project Lead - BI wherein the primary responsibility is to design & develop DW & BI Solutions with team size of 25+ consultants spread across multiple clients.
  • Promoted to Practice Lead - BI with additional responsibility of handling 1/3rd of overall BI Team.
  • Possess expertise in setting up new BI Architecture, upgrade & migrate QlikView, Qlik Sense & other Qlik Products such as Qlik Nprinting, Qlik Chat Bot, Qlik Alerts.
  • Successful Implementation of Data warehousing solution on Informatica & Analytics in QlikView, Qlik Sense in a major Beverage Manufacturing client.
  • Working on Design & Implementation of DW migration from Informatica to Azure & subsequent BI migration from Qlik Sense to Power BI.
  • Worked on several reporting tools like Qlik NPrinting & Power BI Report Server.
  • Planned, executed and controlled assigned projects, ensuring work performed complied with contractual requirements.
  • Drove team's execution of quality management throughout division, improving process effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, resource and process efficiency.
  • Recruited, hired and supervised resources to staff project team.
  • Developed and followed baseline project plan and milestones for task completion.
  • Developed and trained junior team members by leveraging industry experience to achieve optimal project strategy.
  • Conducted several trainings for newly recruited batches on various tools like QlikView, Qlik Sense & Power BI.

Production Support Engineer - Database

Clover Infotech Pvt. Ltd.
09.2016 - 12.2017
  • Worked as Production Support Engineer on Oracle DB.
  • Handling various Account Opening Applications for leading Indian Banks.
  • Expertise in 3rd Party Account Opening Application Flow (Newgen based products like Omni Flow, Omni Docs) with full understanding of its working & hence played a key role in fixing major production issues helping customer account related problems.

Support Engineer - Database

Wirpo InfoTech
02.2015 - 02.2016

Expertise in solving ATM related issues for leading Indian Banks.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

R. C. Patel Institute of Technology, Shirpur
Shirpur, Maharashtra, India
07-2014

Skills

  • Leadership: Pre-sales, Technical delivery, Cross-functional team management (up to 30 members) and Leading Practice
  • BI Tools: Power BI, Qlik Sense, QlikView, Tableau, Sigma Computing
  • Databases: MS SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL
  • Data Platforms: Informatica, Microsoft Azure, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric

Certification

  • Qlik Sense Data Architect (2019)
  • Microsoft Certified Data Analyst (2020)
  • Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer [DP-600] (2024)

Achievements

  • Successfully delivered 100+ pre-sales solutions and architected BI implementations across tools like Qlik Sense, QlikView, Power BI, Tableau, and migrations between these platforms.
  • Completed 30+ end-to-end BI setups and migration projects, including building solutions from scratch (Qlik Sense, Power BI, Tableau) and executing seamless migrations (e.g., QlikView to Qlik Sense, Tableau to Power BI, Lumira to Tableau).
  • Led a critical QlikView to Power BI migration project for a key client, achieving zero downtime and driving seamless user adoption.
  • Designed and deployed a high-performance Data Lakehouse architecture, reducing ETL processing time by 30% and enhancing scalability.
  • Conducted 10+ targeted training sessions, empowering teams to adapt quickly to new BI tools and processes, boosting efficiency and adoption rates.

Timeline

Principal Consultant

Celebal Technologies
06.2024 - Current

Senior Consultant - BI

Celebal Technologies
07.2022 - 05.2024

Practice Lead - BI

IRT Digital Analytics Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
01.2018 - 07.2022

Production Support Engineer - Database

Clover Infotech Pvt. Ltd.
09.2016 - 12.2017

Support Engineer - Database

Wirpo InfoTech
02.2015 - 02.2016

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

R. C. Patel Institute of Technology, Shirpur
Mohammed Kapdawala