diff --git a/content/cv.md b/content/cv.md index 6b5cb07..4578250 100644 --- a/content/cv.md +++ b/content/cv.md @@ -1,42 +1,43 @@ -## Sam Chance | Analytics Engineer | Cornwall, UK +## Sam Chance | Analytics Engineer | MSc Marine Biology | United Kingdom ***contact@sjplab.com*** -4 years experience working in the tech industry as a Data Analyst and Analytics Engineer. Experienced at providing high quality consulting services to company stakeholders. Demonstrable proficiency in various programming languages. Strong educational background in a STEM field with Master's and Bachelor's degree. Excellent communication skills with competence at articulating complex ideas to non-technical people. Broad set of technical skills and talented at crafting creative solutions for novel problems. - -## Skills -- **Database Management**: BigQuery | Postgres | MongoDB (learning) -- **Analytics**: Data Engineering | Data Analysis (R, Pandas, Numpy, SPSS) | Data Modelling (DBT, Python, SQL) | Data Visualization | Dashboarding (Looker Studio, Apache ECharts) -- **Programming Languages**: proficient: SQL, Python, Bash | capable: R, Lua | learning: JavaScript, Nix -- **Code Collaboration & Version Control**: Git, Github, Self Hosted Gitea -- **Workflow Orchestration**: Apache Airflow | Prefect (learning) -- **CLI wizard**: Scripting (Bash, Python) | GNU Coreutils | Neovim -- **Geographic Information Systems**: QGIS | PostGIS | GDAL -- **Sysadmin**: Linux | Networking | SSH | Reverse Proxy (Nginx) | API Management | Containerization (Docker, LXC) | Nixos -- **Computers**: Cloud Computing (GCP) | Infrastructure Engineering (Homelab, Hypervisors, KVM) | x86 Architecture -- **AI Tooling**: Self Hosted LLMs | Ollama | Langchain | Open Interpreter -- **Web Development**: Hugo | JavaScript/HTML/CSS | Apache ECharts -- **Personal**: Full UK Driving License | Flexible Working | Autonomous Worker +4 years experience working in the tech industry as a Data Analyst & Engineer for a geocoding firm in London. Strong educational background with two STEM degrees. Excellent communication skills with competence at articulating complex ideas to non-technical people. ## Experience -### Growth Analyst / Analytics Engineer | What3Words | May 2020 to Apr 2024 -- Designed and implemented successful bespoke alerting system from scratch to detect anomalous behaviour in partner API usage (using python) -- General consultant to company stakeholders for resolving technical data related problems -- Built company KPI dashboard in Looker Studio along with underlying data pipelines and data models -- Built QA tool for Product Team to assess and monitor data quality -- Assisted with several large data migration projects in the Data Team -- Researched and implemented data mining techniques for Product and BD Teams -- Started as a Growth Analyst, then promoted to Analytics Engineer +### Growth Analyst / Analytics Engineer | What3Words | May 2020 to Apr 2024 (4 years) +*Engineered data pipelines and managed geospatial data for geocoding company that serves 200k daily users* + +- Engineered & implemented alerting system from scratch to detect anomalous behaviour in partner API usage, resulting in 30+ actionable alerts per month & facilitating service improvements to paying customers +- Developed ETL orchestration platform using Airflow & DBT to automate 40+ DAGS & 140+ data models +- Lead GIS project to map and classify company spatial data using OpenStreetMaps +- Migrated data analytics from Firebase to Mixpanel, enhancing self-serviceability of analytics & reducing work-load of Data Team by 60% from ad-hoc requests +- Architected 80% of company KPI dashboard used by external stakeholders & potential investors +- Designed & implemented QA tool for Product Team to monitor potential issues in new app releases +- Promoted to Analytics Engineer after starting as a Growth Analyst + +## Skills +- **Data Warehousing**: BigQuery | Postgres +- **Data Analysis & Modelling**: Python (pandas, numpy) & R (dplyr) | DBT | SQL | Data Pipeline Design & Development +- **Data Visualization**: matplotlib | ggplot | Looker Studio | Apache ECharts +- **Programming Languages**: *proficient*: SQL, Python, Bash, R | *learning*: JavaScript +- **Workflow Orchestration**: Apache Airflow | Prefect +- **Sysadmin**: Linux | Networking | SSH | Reverse Proxy (Nginx) | API Management | Containerization (Docker, LXC) | Nixos +- **Geographic Information Systems**: ArcGIS | QGIS | PostGIS | GDAL | OpenStreetMaps +- **Code Collaboration & Version Control**: Git, Github, Self Hosted Gitea +- **CLI wizard**: Scripting (Bash, Python) | GNU Coreutils | Neovim +- **Web Development**: Hugo | JavaScript/HTML/CSS | Apache ECharts +- **Personal**: Full UK Driving License | Flexible Working | Remote Working | Autonomous Worker ## Education ### MSc Marine Biology | Bangor University | 1 year -- Delivering technical presentations -- Programmatic statistical analysis of data +*Advanced theoretical & practical training with focus on GIS skills* + - **Thesis**: "Quantifying the Effectiveness of Indonesia's Protected Areas at Preventing Mangrove Deforestation" * A GIS project that involved statistical modelling of satellite data using ArcGIS and R ### BSc Marine Biology & Zoology | Bangor University | 3 years -- **Thesis**: "Biodiversity of Seamounts" ## Personal Websites -- https://baseddata.io: A site where I publish analytical content based on open data. Still a work in progress. -- https://semitamaps.com: A free high-quality map printing service based on OpenStreetMaps. +- **https://semitamaps.com**: A free high-quality map printing service using self-hosted vector tiles generated from OpenStreetMaps and visualised with Maplibre. +- **https://baseddata.io**: A site where I publish analytical content based on open data. Still a work in progress. +- **https://git.bitlab21.com**: Self-hosted Gitea instance where I host my code.