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Sam Chance | UK | 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 such as SQL and Python, 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
  • Data quality and testing
  • Data modelling using DBT
  • GCP services such as BigQuery
  • Workflow management with Apache Airflow
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Geographic information systems

Programming

  • (proficient) SQL, Python, Bash
  • (capable) R, Lua
  • (learning) Javascript, Nix

Tech

  • Git: version control and codebase collaboration
  • AI: Ollama, Langchain, Open Interpreter
  • Sysadmin: Linux, security, networking, self-hosting, containerisation
  • Web development
  • CLI Wizard

Latest Work Experience

Growth Analyst / Analytics Engineer | What3Words | May 2020 to Apr 2024

  • Designed and implemented alerting system from scratch in Python to monitor partner API usage
  • Built company-wide KPI dashboard
  • Built QA tools to assess and monitor data quality
  • Data migration from Firebase to Mixpanel
  • 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 analysis and statistical modelling of satellite data using ArcGIS and R.

BSc Marine Biology & Zoology | Bangor University | 3 years