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

Professional **Analytics Engineer** with 4 years experience designing and
implementing comprehensive analytics solutions with focus on **data modelling**
and building **data pipelines**. Highly adaptable and able to rapidly learn new
skills when necessary. Proficient in various programming languages, with
expertise in **data warehousing**, creating company **dashboards** and building
bespoke **alerting systems** from scratch. Strong educational background in a **STEM**
field with **Master's** and Bachelor's degree in marine biology. My personal
interests are in IT, systems administration, and web development, which has
allowed me to build a diverse skill set that enables me to solve problems
creatively and effectively.

## Skills
### Analytics
- Data monitoring and alerting
- Data visualisation and building dashboards (Looker Studio, R-studio, Matplotlib)
- Data quality and testing
- Data modelling (DBT)
- Database management (BigQuery, Postgres)
- Workflow management (Apache Airflow)
- Statistical Analysis (R-Studio)
- Geographic information systems (QGIS, ArcGIS, PostGIS)

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

### Tech
- Version control and codebase collaboration (Git) 
- AI tooling (Ollama, Langchain, Open Interpreter)
- Sysadmin (Linux, security, networking, Docker)
- Web development (Hugo, JavaScript/HTML/CSS)
- CLI wizard (Bash, coreutils, Neovim)

## Experience
### Growth Analyst / Analytics Engineer | What3Words | May 2020 to Apr 2024
- Designed and implemented successful alerting system from scratch to detect anomalous behaviour in partner API usage (using python)
- Built company KPI dashboard in Looker Studio
- Built QA tool for Product Team to assess and monitor data quality after new app version release
- Assisted with several large data migration projects
- Researched and implemented data mining techniques to uncover insights for Product and BD Teams
- Started as a Growth Analyst, then promoted to Analytics Engineer

## Education
### MSc Marine Biology | Bangor University | 1 year
- 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