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## Sam Chance | Analytics Engineer | Cornwall, UK
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***contact@sjplab.com***
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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.
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## Skills
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- **Database Management**: BigQuery | Postgres | MongoDB (learning)
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- **Analytics**: Data Engineering | Data Analysis (R, Pandas, Numpy, SPSS) | Data Modelling (DBT, Python, SQL) | Data Visualization | Dashboarding (Looker Studio, Apache ECharts)
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- **Programming Languages**: proficient: SQL, Python, Bash | capable: R, Lua | learning: JavaScript, Nix
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- **Code Collaboration & Version Control**: Git, Github, Self Hosted Gitea
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- **Workflow Orchestration**: Apache Airflow | Prefect (learning)
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- **CLI wizard**: Scripting (Bash, Python) | GNU Coreutils | Neovim
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- **Geographic Information Systems**: QGIS | PostGIS | GDAL
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- **Sysadmin**: Linux | Networking | SSH | Reverse Proxy (Nginx) | API Management | Containerization (Docker, LXC) | Nixos
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- **Computers**: Cloud Computing (GCP) | Infrastructure Engineering (Homelab, Hypervisors, KVM) | x86 Architecture
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- **AI Tooling**: Self Hosted LLMs | Ollama | Langchain | Open Interpreter
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- **Web Development**: Hugo | JavaScript/HTML/CSS | Apache ECharts
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- **Personal**: Full UK Driving License | Flexible Working | Autonomous Worker
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## Experience
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### Growth Analyst / Analytics Engineer | What3Words | May 2020 to Apr 2024
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- Designed and implemented successful bespoke alerting system from scratch to detect anomalous behaviour in partner API usage (using python)
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- General consultant to company stakeholders for resolving technical data related problems
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- Built company KPI dashboard in Looker Studio along with underlying data pipelines and data models
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- Built QA tool for Product Team to assess and monitor data quality
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- Assisted with several large data migration projects in the Data Team
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- Researched and implemented data mining techniques for Product and BD Teams
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- Started as a Growth Analyst, then promoted to Analytics Engineer
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## Education
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### MSc Marine Biology | Bangor University | 1 year
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- Delivering technical presentations
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- Programmatic statistical analysis of data
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- **Thesis**: "Quantifying the Effectiveness of Indonesia's Protected Areas at Preventing Mangrove Deforestation"
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* A GIS project that involved statistical modelling of satellite data using ArcGIS and R
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### BSc Marine Biology & Zoology | Bangor University | 3 years
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- **Thesis**: "Biodiversity of Seamounts"
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## Personal Websites
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- https://baseddata.io: A site where I publish analytical content based on open data. Still a work in progress.
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- https://semitamaps.com: A free high-quality map printing service based on OpenStreetMaps.
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Sam