Power BI Developer Resume: Models, DAX and Reporting Evidence
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Nikhil Rao
Power BI Developer
Hyderabad, Indianikhil.rao@example.com
Summary
Power BI developer with four years building operational reporting for retail teams. Creates semantic models, DAX measures and documented refresh processes, with a focus on reconciled definitions and usable reports. Works with business owners to test totals, access rules and reporting assumptions.
Experience
Power BI Developer · Example Linden Analytics
2024-01 – PresentHyderabad, India- Built a sales reporting semantic model covering 28 retail locations, separating transaction facts from product, location and date dimensions.
- Replaced six manually assembled weekly reports with a shared Power BI report, reducing preparation time from 5 hours to 50 minutes per week.
- Created DAX measures for sales, returns and net revenue and reconciled monthly totals with the finance-approved extract.
- Documented refresh dependencies and tested row-level access scenarios with business owners before releasing the report to 42 users.
Reporting Analyst · Example Linden Analytics
2022-08 – 2023-12Hyderabad, India- Reconciled weekly spreadsheet reports to source extracts and recorded differences for business owners.
- Built Power Query transformations for repeatable imports and documented source-column changes.
Projects
Retail returns analysis
- Built a demonstration model with synthetic sales and returns data, keeping transaction grain explicit.
- Documented how return dates and sales dates affected the measures and tested totals against a reference query.
Skills
- Power BI:
- DAX measures, Power Query, Semantic modelling, Row-level security testing
- Data delivery:
- SQL, Star schema, Data reconciliation, Refresh monitoring
Education
- 2018 – 2022
B.Tech in Computer Science
Example Lakeside Institute
Explain DAX through a business question
You do not need to paste a long formula into the resume. Describe the measure, the decision it supported and any important handling of dates, returns or filters. For example, net revenue needs an agreed relationship between sales and returns. If you improved a slow measure, state the tested scenario and the observed change rather than claiming that all reports became faster. Keep the detailed query or benchmark in a permitted portfolio note where an interviewer can inspect the assumptions.
Make data quality and access part of the story
Reconciliation, refresh monitoring and access testing are useful engineering evidence. Explain how you compared totals, investigated missing rows or tested row-level security with the relevant users. Do not equate a successful refresh with correct business logic. State your role in deployment and approvals accurately. If a platform team managed gateways or tenant settings, describe your collaboration instead of claiming ownership of the whole environment.
Choose skills that reflect real depth
Group Power Query, DAX, semantic modelling and SQL separately from visual design. List specific capabilities you have used rather than a percentage proficiency bar. The example separates transaction facts from product, location and date dimensions. Use those terms only if you can explain the model you built. Do not add Fabric, deployment pipelines or advanced security features simply because they appear in a vacancy. A certification should be listed only if you actually earned it, with its real status.
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