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Sam Chance | UK | https://baseddata.io/about-me
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