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## 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.