Alex Gibbons
Senior Data Analyst
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Gibbons is a Senior Data Analyst based in London with 16 years of analytic experience and eight years focused deeply on data analysis and data science across government departments. He builds reproducible analytical pipelines (R, R Markdown), maintains Power BI dashboards, and combines SAS and SQL expertise to interrogate large, sensitive datasets for HMRC and the Home Office. Alex has led text-mining and sentiment analysis projects and delivered rapid user-base analysis that saved the Home Office roughly £250k, demonstrating an ability to turn insight into measurable impact. Comfortable across R, Python and SQL, he also has hands-on experience with Azure Databricks, RShiny and Power Query for operational reporting and stakeholder-facing visualisations. An early contributor to open-source Ruby tooling (adding CSV template support to the widely used tilt library), he brings a pragmatic engineering mindset to data problems and a track record of improving data acquisition and efficiency. His background in neuroscience and partial medical training gives him a distinctive analytical perspective on complex, real-world data.
16 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
King's College School WimbledonBachelor’s Degree, Neuroscience with Cognitive Science, 2:1, Bachelor’s Degree, Neuroscience with Cognitive Science, 2:1 at University of SussexBachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), Medicine, Incomplete, Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), Medicine, Incomplete at Brighton and Sussex Medical School
English, French, Japanese
Github Skills (4)
template-engine10
csv10
ruby10
unit-testing9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rtomayko/tilt
Jul 2012 - Mar 2013
Generic interface to multiple Ruby template engines
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Alex focused on enhancing the `tilt` library by adding CSV template support. They implemented CSV template functionality by integrating with CSV and FasterCSV libraries, with conditional logic for Ruby versions. Their contributions included defining the CSV template class, handling template rendering, and adding documentation examples. They also refactored the code by changing the extension for CSV templates from '.csv' to '.rcsv'.
generic-interfacerubytemplate-engine
AltSchool/ember-cli-react
Mar 2016 - Oct 2018
Use React component hierarchies in your Ember app
Contributions:67 commits, 21 PRs, 31 pushes in 2 years 7 months
emberreact-component
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