Rajiv Raman
Almere Stad,FL
Summary
Possess experience in various lines of software development with business knowledge and acumen in various domains. Having played multiple roles from developer to technical, data and reporting architect, currently grooming to be an enterprise architect.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Architect - Reporting Platform
Rabo Bank
09.2022 - Current
- Architected to be reporting platform for specific business area within Rabo bank
- Migrated reports from Tableau to Power BI
- Strategically reduced overall number of reports to be migrated by 78%
- Existing reports in Tableau were to be scoped, planned for migration and migrated to Microsoft Power BI with post migration support and maintenance
- Tableau platform that was widely being used by users had to be maintained in perfect running condition until reports were completely migrated, tested and signed off by business
- Understood reporting landscape in short timeframe
- Interacted with different stakeholders to get good grasp of their reporting needs
- Devised plan for migration of reports in phased manner
- Worked with professional team in Agile, scrum way of working
- Perform Tableau server maintenance and user management activities
- Created governance for reporting platform
- Architected futuristic reporting platform in line with expectation of business keeping in mind compliance and security aspect demanded by bank and its regulatory boards
- Lead offshore development team
- Worked with product owner to set expectations with business/stakeholders
- Provided architectural solution for ad-hoc changes in requirements with least deviations to existing plans
- Performed stakeholder management
- Mentored development team and helped stakeholder get acquainted with new reporting platform
Architect - Reporting Platform
Viterra B.V
09.2020 - 08.2022
- Performed capacity planning of reporting platform
- Architected Tableau platform for multi node fail safe configuration
- Improved performance of dashboards by 38%
- Improved efficiency of Alteryx workflows by 53%
- Performed architectural changes to reporting platform to enhance efficiency, ease of maintenance, improved downtime, etc.
- Performed scope identification
- Framed technical spec required for Tableau platform
- Implemented data and report governance
- Successful creation and hosting of BI platform
Architect - Reporting Platform – Nike Logistics
Nike Inc.
08.2019 - 09.2020
- Provided architecture for Alteryx platform
- Provided efficiency improvement of inbound process by 22%
- Performed capacity planning of Tableau platform
- Provided dashboard design changes to incorporate multiple scenarios within a single report enhancing maintainability of reports
- Reporting platform establishment
- Implemented governance for Alteryx platform
Tableau Admin & Developer
Novartis
02.2015 - 04.2019
- Played role of Architecting Tableau platform from scratch to cater to different reporting needs of Novartis
- Included factory model along with report hosting and self-service reporting in fully secure and governed manner
- Developed Tableau platform to support over 1,00,000+ end users, 100+ developers and 200+ self-service reliant business users
- Performed capacity planning for entire on-premise Tableau platform, inspected and upgraded it on need basis
- Developed a governance protocol across all services offered by platform
- Common platform activities included user management, content management, security, report scheduling, upgrading platform on regular basis, etc
- Expanded services to provide 24 x 7 end user support
- Programmed PowerShell scripts to automate many of platform related activities
- Provided guidance to developers in implementing best practices
- Interacted with various stakeholders regarding self-service reporting needs, build necessary datasets as per requirements and make them available to intended participants
- Suggest business stakeholders on best fit visualization for given KPI
- Performance tuning of dashboards where required
- Propose capacity planning benchmarks for Tableau platform for given scale of business requirements and size of audience
- Create Server monitoring Dashboards to monitor and optimize Tableau Server usage
- Perform support activities around Tableau server administration / dashboard development as per agreed SLA
- Educate business users on development and Tableau server administration best practices and approaches
- Working with REST APIs
- Working on business proposals and provide architectural solutions for RFPs
- Developed estimation templates for tableau dashboard development, self- service BI and Tableau platform establishments.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of new features.
- Adapted quickly to new technologies and programming languages, enhancing overall team productivity.
- Debugged complex software issues, leading to a more stable product release.
- Continuously updated skills through training courses, workshops, and self-study—staying current on industry trends and emerging technologies.
- Participated in regular code reviews, ensuring high-quality standards were consistently met across all development efforts.
- Reduced development time by creating reusable code libraries for future projects.
BI Developer – Tableau Migration & Enhancement (offshore)
VMware
09.2016 - 02.2017
- Played role of offshore point of contact, leading team of 8 Tableau engineers
- Involved in understanding architecture and design of existing reports
- Developed .NET based application to read metadata from Tableau workbooks to get easier insight on Tables and columns used in dashboards
- This application helped in reducing overall man hours (time and effort) taken for column and table mapping between Greenplum and HANA by 40%
- Took complete ownership of this assignment and has been responsible for planning migration activity by segregating them into various tracks, assigning them to Tableau Engineers, implementing required changes, Coordinating with different teams to collect data, scrutinize errors and narrowing them to lowest level of detail, fixing defects, etc
- Helped test engineers by providing Greenplum and equivalent SAP HANA queries to easily identify areas of data mismatch
- Helped VMware IT support team in developing .NET based application to help migrate Tableau reports and data sources between Tableau server environments (DEV, QA and PROD).
- Served as a subject matter expert for all BI-related topics, providing guidance and support to key stakeholders throughout the organization.
- Developed strategic reports for executive decision-making using advanced data visualization techniques.
- Standardized report formatting across departments, ensuring consistent presentation style and content structure that facilitated ease-of-use for all users.
- Supported end-users in understanding complex datasets through effective training sessions and documentation materials.
- Optimized dashboard performance through careful monitoring, tuning, and troubleshooting of SQL queries.
Senior Developer - LoanStar
Product
12.2011 - 08.2014
- .A web-based product developed for monitoring loan portfolio at customer, loan category, bank branch and other feasible basis
- This product targets small commercial banks in USA
- Hosted in Azure, it takes complete advantage of cloud computing platform as service (PAAS) technology
- It supports multi-tenant concept in maintaining its multiple customers
- Developed SAAS based multitenant model web application for Loan portfolio management
- Interact with key stakeholders to gather business requirements
- Design data model for entire application
- Deigned highly attractive and light weight UI using latest and user-friendly widgets as UI for end users
- Implemented Google charts for simple KPIs
- Developed reports using Tableau desktop and integrated them with web application using trusted authentication
- Architected entire application
- Utilized agile based Scrum methodology as SDLC
- Developed ETL component using MSBI-SSIS to import loan data from loan tapes to MSSQL server.
- Developed reusable code libraries that streamlined development efforts and improved consistency in software architecture across multiple projects.
Developer – ShipSmart
Product
05.2009 - 11.2011
- Web-based application developed to support maintenance of ships and their crew
- Worked as senior developer in developing web-based software product for maintenance and monitoring ships
- Designed and implemented product upgrade mechanism automatically even when ships are sailing in mid sea
- Understood shipping business domain and analyzed requirements which would be selling points for marine product
- Designed and implemented unique features like performing automatic product update even when ships are not connected to internet
- Implemented product in ships and trained mariners and bring them to speed in using product effectively and efficiently
- Helped in end-to-end support of product, to sustain customer confidence during initial phase, until more stable versions were made available.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Anna University, India
Anna University, India05.2006
Skills
- Technical architecture design
- Data architecture design
- Reporting platform architecture
- Capacity and infrastructure planning
- Data security and governance
- Leadership
- Stakeholder management
- Strong logical reasoning
- Adaptive and agile
Timeline
Architect - Reporting Platform
Rabo Bank
09.2022 - Current
Architect - Reporting Platform
Viterra B.V
09.2020 - 08.2022
Architect - Reporting Platform – Nike Logistics
Nike Inc.
08.2019 - 09.2020
BI Developer – Tableau Migration & Enhancement (offshore)
VMware
09.2016 - 02.2017
Tableau Admin & Developer
Novartis
02.2015 - 04.2019
Senior Developer - LoanStar
Product
12.2011 - 08.2014
Developer – ShipSmart
Product
05.2009 - 11.2011
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Anna University, India
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