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Adam Rawles

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Adam Rawles

Skills

Programming

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  • 5+ of experience both using and teaching the R programming language.
  • Ability to construct and deploy complex machine learning platforms using both R and Python.
  • Specialisation in deploying database-backed FastAPI REST APIs, utilising SQLAlchemy and Alembic.

Data Analysis

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  • Highly skilled in data presentation, graphing and reporting.
  • Extensive experience in data extraction from SQL databases and experience with database design and maintenance.
  • Ability to take data analytics from the prototyping phase through the complete development cycle into production.

Development

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  • Many years of experience using development-workflow tools including Git, Github and Azure DevOps.
  • Experience creating and maintaining build and release pipelines with GitHub Actions, TravisCI and Azure DevOps.
  • Specialisation in containerisation technologies such as Docker.

Project Management

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  • Time, people and resource management skills developed through hands-on experience managing system development.
  • Ability to work and manage effectively in teams utilising various collaboration platforms such as GitHub and Azure DevOps.

Professional Experience

Data Scientist

Guernsey Financial Services Commission

Guernsey, CI

2021 - Current

  • Primary developer of a SupTech system that utilises AI modelling and analytics in financial regulation to identify areas of risk.
    • Prototyped and productionised the machine-learning models that drive the system
    • Developed and maintained the data storage solutions, using both SQL and NoSQL databases
    • Designed and implemented the underlying infrastructure, relying on containerisation to provide scaling and flexibility
  • Redeveloped and improved a complex model focusing on identifying Financial Crime risk
  • Contributed to a project focused on improving data quality at the Commission

Data Analyst

Guernsey Financial Services Commission

Guernsey, CI

2019 - 2021

  • Recreated and automated the generation of various data reports using R.
  • Implented a completely custom R repository that utilised automatic-building tools and a RESTful API
  • Further developed and delivered R training materials (teacheR and opeRate)

Graduate Data Analyst

ELEXON

London, UK

2018 - 2019

  • Implemented a new risk simulation, utilising a Monte-Carlo methodology in R to better estimate the financial cost associated with specific risks.
  • Automated and updated market reports, allowing them to be automatically published to the ELEXON website with custom HTML widgets to allow for greater user interaction.
  • Developed an R package to facilitate the extraction of energy-related data from the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service API provided by ELEXON called BMRSr.

Education

Cardiff University

First Class Honors - BSc. Psychology

Cardiff, UK

2014 - 2018

Project: An Evaluation of Spatial Representations of Order and the Efficacy of Online Studies

  • Designed an online and lab-based version of a cognitive psychology experiment testing the relationship between actual and represented differences between items in a list.
  • Extended the functionality of the developing PsychoJS software to run the experiment online.
  • Analysed the difference in responses between the online and lab versions of the study as a secondary research topic.