Eduard Nizamov – Professional Tableau Consultant, Head of BI & Extension Developer
8+ Years of Tableau Expertise & Custom Extension Development

BI leader with 8+ years of experience building BI infrastructures, leading analytics teams, and delivering enterprise-scale reporting. I focus on making data reliable, governed, and immediately useful for decision-making.
Core Competencies:
- Tableau Desktop
- Tableau Server
- BI Infrastructure
- Team Leadership
- Dashboard Development
- SQL
- Data Visualization
- Python
Business Value I Deliver
- Build and scale BI functions end-to-end to enterprise scope (operating model, roles, delivery cadence, SLAs).
- Standardize reporting with a governed design system: style guides, reusable templates, automated deployments and migrations.
- Automate and secure data flows: dependency-aware REST API integrations, access and permissions lifecycle management, alerts.
- Align BI strategy to business KPIs and decision workflows, improving time-to-market and operational performance.
- Develop custom Tableau extensions and internal admin tools to address domain-specific requirements.
Community & Teaching
- Designed and taught a comprehensive Tableau course (16 lessons) for 100+ students; evaluated homework and projects.
- Twice speaker at the Serbia Tableau User Group, presenting on Tableau Server metadata and practical visualization techniques.
Elevating BI Product: Mastering Tableau Server Metadata
Simple Yet Effective: Practical Tableau Tips
Technical Proficiencies
- BI Tools: Tableau Desktop & Server, Power BI, Holistics BI, Apache Superset.
- Databases: SQL (SSMS, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, ClickHouse, MySQL).
- Programming & Automation: Python (Automation, API Integration, Data Transformation), Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery, Cloud Console), Google Sheets API, Gmail API, and various webhook integrations.
Professional Experience
Head of Business Intelligence
Managing the BI department, roadmap, and platform; scaled enterprise analytics while maintaining consistent quality.
- Implemented secure Tableau Server architecture; standardized workflows and enforced a unified style guide and templates.
- Orchestrated dependency-aware refreshes and integrated REST API–based deprovisioning with HR to safeguard access.
- Scaled BI to 1,500+ users across 50+ business streams through reuse-first patterns and consistent delivery.
- Introduced out-of-the-box deployment patterns (scripted replication via API/XML) enabling 20+ dashboards to launch in 2 minutes.
- Delivered 500+ dashboards across business domains.
- Developed bespoke visualizations and admin extensions to avoid paid market add-ons.
BI Team Lead (Tableau)
Launched Tableau as a product and established the foundation for governance, automation, and product monitoring.
- Authored the Tableau style guide and set up initial documentation.
- Implemented smooth refresh process to ensure 100% data freshness.
- Built admin/usage dashboards (user activity, permissions, inactive assets) and embedded a feedback mechanism into templates to guide improvements.
- Secured executive buy-in for BI as a strategic product and initiated organization-wide adoption and upskilling.
Data Analyst Profession Course Author & Tutor
- Designed an extensive Tableau training course with 16 lessons, guiding students from introductory to intermediate levels.
- Conducted 100+ webinars for 100+ students, evaluated their homework and projects.
BI Mentor & Consultant
Conducted training for BI teams and educated employees on effective Tableau use as a mentor and consultant.
- Developed an upskilling program to enhance mentees' skills and guided junior devs.
- Provided consultation on Tableau implementation, helping companies overcome data analysis and visualization challenges.
Senior Tableau Developer
- Created and optimized 20+ reports, managed Tableau Server Administration and contributed to BI style guide development.
- Implemented a User Management Report using Tableau REST API and Python, resulting in identification of 50+ underutilized accounts and irrational usage of 5+ data sources.
Lead BI Engineer
- Handled diverse tasks including collaborating with business stakeholders, preparing data sources and developing Tableau reports covering 400+ end-users with my products.
- Supported 5 internal departments by creating and maintaining BI tools (20+ dashboards) to enhance performance.
- My leadership included conducting ~20 technical interviews, mentoring and onboarding new team members, leading sprint planning and tech reviews for a team of 12 analysts.
Analytics Specialist
As a full-stack Tableau developer, I achieved the following:
- Developed and delivered 20+ high-impact Tableau reports, including designing dashboards, integrating interactive elements, managing row-level security, preparing of data sources in SQL and presenting dashboards to 50+ end-users.
- Streamlined Tableau Server administration, managing permissions for ~3000 users, creating auto-updated user groups and optimizing background tasks for improved performance.
Sales & Marketing Analyst
As part of the Sales & Marketing and Airport Operations teams, I led the comprehensive development of the regional office, where I achieved:
- Built 3 reports using MicroStrategy DWH, Midas, and Power BI to conduct competitor analysis, uncovering 10–15% fare adjustment opportunities that boosted profitability by 12% and passenger traffic by 8%.
- Generated an operational performance report that identified flight delays caused by handling companies' organizational issues, enabling SLA negotiations that reduced service costs for Turkish Airlines by 15% and improved on-time performance.
- Awarded first place twice in the Corporate Innovation and Projects Directorate for valuable ideas, with a total of 7 submitted ideas.
- Trained 5 new employees, enhancing team skills and operational efficiency.