Karthik Reddy

Over 10+ years of extensive experience in IT with full System Analysis & Design, Development, Administration, Integration, Implementation, Performance Tuning and Maintenance of Business Intelligence and the related Database Platforms. Extensive experience in working with Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server, Tableau Cloud, Tableau Bridge & Tableau PREP in various versions of Tableau (v8 – v2026.1).

Experience with Installation, Configuration, Upgrade, and Maintenance of enterprise-level Tableau Server in distributed environments, applied TSM CLI expertise for node management, service configuration, and environment diagnostics.

Experience in managing large-scale enterprise deployments for top-tier organizations across Entertainment, Retail, Banking, Payments and Financial Services industries. End to end experience in designing and deploying data visualizations using Tableau. Hands-on experience migrating on-premises Tableau Server environments to Tableau Cloud including content migration using the Tableau Migration App and Tableau Content Migration Tool (CMT), user/group transition, authentication configuration, and Tableau Bridge setup for connectivity to on-premises data sources.

Excellent experience in Configuring and Administration of Tableau Server & Cloud Environment. Extensive experience working in Windows, UNIX/LINUX environments. Managed user lifecycle (onboarding/offboarding) and license allocation through API-driven workflows.

Experience in configuring Tableau Server & Tableau Cloud for External Authentication Technologies such as SAML, Kerberos and OpenID.

Experience in automating server management, governance, and deployment using REST APIs, improving operational efficiency and reducing manual effort. Experienced on UI/UX design across the technology organization.

Experience in developing Power BI reports, Alteryx workflows, QlikView dashboards, and BI platform migration (OBIEE, Micro Strategy to Tableau). Experienced in tuning long running SQL queries for better performance. Consistently delivered results in various stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Expertise in designing and development of various dashboards, reports utilizing various Tableau Visualizations like Dual Axis, Bar Graphs, Scatter Plots, Pie-Charts, Heat Maps, Bubble Charts, Tree Maps, Funnel Charts, Box Plots, Waterfall Charts, Geographic Visualization and other making use of actions, other local and global filters according to the business/client requirement. Proficient in administration activities like Installation, Configuration, Upgrades, Patches, Cloning, Capacity Planning, script development and documentation. Passionate about emerging BI and AI technologies, with ongoing independent research into next-generation analytics platforms, AI-powered insights with Tableau Pulse, and agentic BI integrations.

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Lead Tableau Administrator at Paramount (2021-05 – Present)

Responsible for Administration, Development and Production Support of Enterprise-wide Tableau application consisting of multiple key functional business domains and 5000+ active users globally.

• Installed and Configured Tableau Server on multiple environments hosted on AWS EC2 instances with multi-node cluster configuration for high availability, load balancing and scalability.
• Experience in migrating Tableau Server-to-Cloud, including environment configuration, Bridge Setup and seamless user transition.
• Configured and managed Tableau Bridge instance to maintain live and scheduled extract connectivity to on-premise data sources.
• Configured OKTA as Identity Provider (IdP) with SAML on both Tableau Server and Tableau Cloud enabling enterprise Single Sign-On for all users.
• Experienced in setting up Login Based License Management (LBLM) to control and optimize license utilization, identifying and reclaiming licenses from inactive users.
• Integrated Slack with Tableau Server and Tableau Cloud across multiple environments.
• Automated user lifecycle management (onboarding/offboarding) and license allocation using Tableau REST APIs, reducing manual effort by 40%+
• Experienced in setting up DR Environment.
• Responsible to provide periodic reports on Tableau Server Usage.
• Optimized Tableau (Server & Cloud) performance by identifying inactive users and unused content via API-based analysis.
• Leveraged Tableau Pulse to deliver AI-powered automated insights and proactive metric monitoring to business stakeholders, reducing ad-hoc reporting requests across functional teams.
• Identify issues, performance bottlenecks and optimize the Tableau dashboards and Reports using Tableau's built-in performance recorder and server logs to trace and resolve slow loading views.
• Responsible for Managing User & Group permissions to ensure that only authorized individuals have access to sensitive data.
• Excellent experience in using TSM and TABCMD commands for Server Configuration, backups, scheduled extracts and automation scripting.
• Handled connections to Snowflake, BigQuery, Salesforce, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Databricks, MySQL, and SQL Server.
• Designed and developed enterprise dashboards for HR, Streaming Analytics and Revenue Reporting using Tableau Desktop.
• Performed regular backups of data to prevent loss due to system failure or human error.
• Worked with development teams to ensure that new features or integrations are compatible with existing infrastructure.
• Staying up to date with latest upgrades and developments in Tableau.

Sr. Tableau Consultant at Walmart (2019-07 – 2021-04)

As a Tableau SME responsible for the Administration, Design and Production support of enterprise-wide data visualization platform with 200,000+ users.

• Installed and Configured Tableau Server 2020.1 on multiple environments.
• Designed, Developed and Tested various Tableau & Power BI visualizations for dashboards and ad-hoc reporting solutions by connecting from different data sources and databases.
• Excellent experience in developing Custom Admin views by using Tableau Metadata Tables and Postgres SQL.
• Involved in cleaning up the Tableau Stale Content.
• Imported the users via Active Directory and grant permissions based on the client requirements.
• Created complex dashboards using parameters, sets, groups and calculations and drill down and drill up in worksheets and customization using filters and actions.
• Perform day to day administration of Tableau Servers in Multiple environments.
• Manage Sites, Projects, Groups and Users.
• Configure and Manage Project Permissions.
• Provide periodic reports on Tableau Server Usage.
• Publish Tableau Workbooks and Data Extracts.
• Experienced in creating workflows in ALTERYX & Tableau PREP.
• Involved in the conversion of Core Based Licensing to Role Based Licensing.
• Excellent experience in using the Level of Detail Expressions (LOD's).
• Administered and provided production support for Enterprise-wide BI applications consisting of multiple key functional business domains.
• Administer user, user groups, and scheduled instances for reports in Tableau.
• Responsible for resolving various performance issues and analyze the best process distribution for different projects.
• Monitor VizQL Server, Application Server and Data Server activity to Track performance and system stability.
• Solid experience in building interactive reports, dashboards, and/or integrating modeling results and have strong Data Visualization design skills and analytic background by using Tableau and Power BI desktops.
• Good understanding of Database concepts including writing SQL statements.
• Develop and Design Executive dashboards and reports for the Business users across the Walmart team for better decision making.

MASTER'S DEGREE in Computer Science – Chicago State university

BACHELOR'S degree in Computer Science – JNTU university