
Piet Chavalala
Senior BI Developer
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About
Piet is a flexible and hardworking BI developer with a national diploma, advanced diploma and postgraduate diploma in computer systems engineering, both from Tshwane University of Technology. Piet further has experience in Business Intelligence and software development. Piet always believes that his growth-oriented mind-set, positive attitude, and continuous improvement coupled with the growing knowledge he gained during his studies and field work prepared him to make a solid contribution in any IT and Computer science-related field.
Some of his technical skills include, but are not limited to Power BI, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, SQL, ETL development, C#, Python, JavaScript and React.js. Piet is currently seeking employment that will allow him to grow professionally while being able to utilise his problem-solving skills and attention to detail for the betterment of the organisation with the best use of dedication and resourcefulness.
Experience
Senior BI Developer at Nutun (2026-01 – Present)
- Designing, developing, and optimising Power BI & SSRS reports and dashboards.
- Implementing and streamlining ETL processes using SSIS and SQL, with ongoing improvements for data integration.
- Developing and maintaining SSAS models and optimise for performance.
- Writing T-SQL queries for ad hoc data analysis.
- Providing ongoing BI support, maintaining reports, assisting users, and managing access.
- Attending daily stand-ups to align with current and future project goals and ensure smooth progress
Senior BI Developer at Europcar (Motus) (2024-07 – 2026-01)
- Designing, developing, and optimising Power BI & SSRS reports and dashboards.
- Implementing and streamlining ETL processes using SSIS and SQL, with ongoing improvements for data integration.
- Developing and maintaining SSAS models and optimise for performance.
- Writing T-SQL queries for ad hoc data analysis.
- Providing ongoing BI support, maintaining reports, assisting users, and managing access.
- Attending daily stand-ups to align with current and future project goals and ensure smooth progress
Senior Associate BI Developer at Dimension Data/NTT Data (2021-10 – 2024-07)
- Development of Power BI reports/dashboard
- Implementing ETL procedures using SSIS, SQL and Data Factory.
- Writing T-SQL queries for ad hoc data analysis.
- Managing BI projects that involve integrating new data sources, upgrading, and optimizing environments.
- Providing support for BI, Azure, and data-related tasks such as maintaining reports and environments, assisting users, managing access, creating ad hoc and monthly reports, and ensuring the uptime and cost optimization of Azure Data Factory pipelines and dataflow.
Software/BI developer at Global Robotics (2020-09 – 2021-09)
- Development of software projects using C#, ASP.NET MVC, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, Entity Framework and JavaScript (jQuery).
- Writing T-SQL queries for ad hoc data analysis.
- Crafting and executing SQL queries upon request for data.
- Implementing ETL procedures using SSIS.
- Developing and presenting information through visualizations and reports using Power BI and SSRS
- Utilized GitHub/Git to maintain the code base for the back end and front end.
BI developer at Scania SA (2019-08 – 2020-08)
- Writing T-SQL queries for ad hoc data analysis.
- Implementing ETL procedures using SSIS.
- Developing and presenting information through visualizations and reports using Power BI and SSRS
- Provided maintenance and development of bug fixes for existing ASP.NET web forms (C#) applications.
- Developing and maintaining SSAS models and optimise for performance.
- Providing ongoing BI support, maintaining reports, assisting users, and managing access.
BI developer at Keystroke Holdings (2018-09 – 2019-07)
- Development of software projects using C#, ASP.NET MVC, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, Entity Framework and JavaScript (jQuery).
- Crafting and executing SQL queries upon request for data.
- Implementing ETL procedures using SSIS.
- Developing and presenting information through visualizations and reports using Power BI and SSRS
- Utilized GitHub/Git to maintain the code base for the back end and front end.
Education
Postgraduate Diploma in Computer Systems Engineering – Tshwane University of Technology (2025)
Advanced Diploma in Computer Systems Engineering – Tshwane University of Technology (2023)
National Diploma in Computer Systems Engineering – Tshwane University of Technology (2019)
Grade 12 – Senzangakhona Secondary School (2014)