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Sam Chance | UK | https://baseddata.io/about-me
Analytics Engineer with over 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 and self-hosting
- Web development
- CLI Wizard
Work Experience
Growth Analyst / Analytics Engineer | 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 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"