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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"

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