Swathi Ganesh
Senior Power BI Developer | BI Automation Engineer | Power BI Embedded | Python & REST API | Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Certified | Remote Contract
Salary / Daily rate
Stafford, UK
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Remote only
Skills
About me
Intro
Senior Power BI Developer and BI Automation Engineer with 8+ years of experience building automation-first BI platforms and scalable analytics solutions across gaming, CRM, and financial services. For the last 3 years I have worked as the sole engineer at Future Anthem, an AI driven gaming analytics company, where I designed, built, and continue to operate a commercial Power BI platform serving 10 to 25 clients across hundreds of reports. I own every layer of the stack — semantic model architecture, advanced DAX, Power BI Embedded with Service Principal authentication, Python and REST API automation, Azure Data Factory pipelines, CI/CD via Git, and Microsoft Fabric integration. My work sits at the intersection of Power BI development and engineering. I do not just build reports — I design and automate the entire infrastructure that delivers them at scale. I am a Microsoft Certified Power BI Data Analyst (PL-300), a Microsoft Fabric certified engineer, and a 2x Top Writer on Medium with 1,200+ followers covering Power BI and Microsoft Fabric thought leadership.
Work experience
Future Anthem
Apr 2022 - Present
4 years 7 months
Remote, OR 97458, USA
Senior Power BI Developer
Oct 2024 - Present
2 years 1 month
Remote, OR 97458, USA
* Own and evolve a production-grade Power BI Embedded platform delivering client-facing analytics to 20+ customers via Service Principal authentication * Lead semantic model architecture across Azure Synapse, Snowflake, and AWS Redshift handling billions of rows using DirectQuery and composite models * Drive governance and access management across all client workspaces using Service Principals, enabling programmatic refresh and usage metrics at scale * Reduced dashboard load times by 40% through advanced DAX optimisation (CALCULATE, SUMX, Filter Context) and model restructuring * Own all CI/CD pipelines enabling reliable versioned multi-client deployment across all Power BI environments * Mentor junior developers and set reporting standards and best practices across the platform
Power BI Developer
Apr 2022 - Oct 2024
2 years 7 months
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
* Built the commercial Power BI platform from scratch as sole engineer, serving multiple clients simultaneously across hundreds of live reports * Designed and automated a 16-step client onboarding framework using Python, Power BI REST API, Power Automate, and Azure Data Factory — reducing deployment from days to hours * Implemented Power Automate monitoring and alerting for production refresh failures, reducing downtime on live client systems * Standardised BI architecture using reusable Power BI templates, improving delivery consistency across all client deployments * Authored internal Wiki documentation as the single source of truth for all BI operations and deployment processes
Business Intelligence Analyst
KAS Automation
Oct 2018 - Mar 2022
3 years 6 months
* Delivered concurrent multi-client Power BI and Tableau solutions integrating Salesforce, HubSpot, and Microsoft * Dynamics data across sales, marketing, and customer retention * Reduced dataset refresh times by 50% through Power Query optimisation and query folding across client deployments * Developed advanced DAX measures for funnel analysis, conversion tracking, cohort reporting, and revenue forecasting * Implemented Row Level Security across Power BI and Tableau to enforce data governance per client and user group * Automated CRM-to-BI pipelines connecting SQL databases, Azure Data Lake, and Power BI Dataflows, eliminating manual data handling
Education
SJB Institute of Technology
Engineer's degree, Computer Science
2012 - 2016
4 years 2 months
Licenses & certifications
Advanced Microsoft Power BI
Issued: May 2026
Learning Data Analytics: 1 Foundations
Issued: May 2026
Learning Transact-SQL
Issued: May 2026
Microsoft Power BI - Up & Running With Power BI Service 2021
Issued: May 2026
Advanced DAX for Microsoft Power BI Desktop
Issued: May 2026
AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials
Issued: Feb 2026
Data literacy Foundations
Issued: Apr 2024
Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate
Issued: Feb 2023
Microsoft Power BI Desktop for Business Intelligence
Issued: Jan 2022