## Sam Chance | Analytics Engineer | Cornwall, UK 
***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

## 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

## Education
### MSc Marine Biology | Bangor University | 1 year
- Delivering technical presentations
- Programmatic statistical analysis of data
- **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.