## Sam Chance | UK | [https://baseddata.io/about-me](https://baseddata.io/about-me)
***contact@sjplab.com***

**Analytics Engineer** with 4 years experience designing and implementing
comprehensive analytics solutions with focus on **data modelling** and building
**data pipelines**. Proficient in **SQL** and **Python**, with expertise in
**data warehousing**, creating company **dashboards** and building bespoke
alerting systems from scratch. My personal interests are focused on IT and
systems administration, which has helped me develop a broad set of skills. This
enables me to **solve novel problems** creatively and holistically. I work well
in both small and highly focussed teams or independently and autonomously with
minimal managerial oversight.

## Skills
### Data and Engineering
- GCP services such as BigQuery
- Data modelling using DBT
- Data quality and testing
- Data monitoring and alerting
- Workflow management with Apache Airflow
- Statistical Analysis
- Programmatic data visualisation
- Geographic information systems

### Programming
- (proficient) SQL, Python, Bash, 
- (capable) R, Lua 
- (learning) Javascript, Nix

### Tech
- Version control and codebase collaboration using Git
- AI tools such as Ollama, Langchain, Open Interpreter
- Systems administration, networking, security, self-hosting, containerisation
- Web development
- CLI Wizard

## Work Experience
### Growth Analyst (Full-time) / Analytics Engineer (Contractor) | What3Words | May 2020 to Apr 2024
- Designed and implemented alerting system in Python from scratch to monitor partner API usage
- Built data pipelines and dashboard for company wide KPI metrics
- Assisted with migrating data reporting from Firebase to Mixpanel
- Built various QA tools to assess and monitor data quality
- Started as a growth analyst, then promoted to analytics engineer

## Education
### MSc Marine Biology | Bangor University | 2017 to 2018
- Thesis: "Quantifying the Effectiveness of Indonesia's Protected Areas at Preventing Mangrove Deforestation"

### BSc Marine Biology & Zoology | Bangor University | 2008 to 2011