Lewis Heptonstall has a diverse work experience history, starting in 2010 as a Database Developer at Microdat, where they developed and maintained a bespoke ERP system. Lewis then moved on to BP in 2012, working as a Research Engineer, developing simulation software and building a Business Intelligence dashboard. Lewis joined KPMG in 2015 as an Analyst before transitioning to Asda in 2016, where they worked as a Data Scientist, designing algorithms, analyzing in-store impact, and building ETL routines. In 2019, Lewis joined BJSS as a Scala Developer specializing in Hadoop. Lewis then moved to Capgemini in 2020, continuing as a Scala Developer, before finally joining Equal Experts in 2021 as a Scala Developer.
Lewis Heptonstall attended the University of Leeds from 2008 to 2012, where they obtained a Master of Engineering (MEng) degree in Chemical Engineering. In addition to their formal education, Lewis has also obtained various certifications in different subjects. Lewis completed the "Apache Spark 2.0 with Scala" course at Udemy in June 2018. In October 2016, they obtained a certification for the "Advanced Data Structures in Java" course from Coursera Course Certificates. In the same year, in July 2016, Lewis also obtained a certification for the "Functional Programming Principles in Scala" course from Coursera Course Certificates. Furthermore, they completed the "Hadoop Platform and Application Framework" course from Coursera Course Certificates in January 2016. Additionally, Lewis completed the "Machine Learning - Stanford University" course on Coursera in December 2015. While no specific months or years are mentioned, Lewis has also obtained certifications in "Matlab Programming Techniques" from The MathWorks and "R Programming" from edX.
November, 2021 - present