## Sam Chance | Analytics Engineer | MSc Marine Biology | United Kingdom 
***contact@sjplab.com***

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 (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
*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  

## Personal Websites
- **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.