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James Broome

James Broome

Director of Engineering

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James has spent nearly 20 years delivering high quality software solutions addressing global business problems, with teams and clients across 3 continents. As Director of Engineering at endjin, he leads the team in providing technology strategy, data insights and engineering support to organisations of all sizes - from disruptive B2C start-ups, to global financial institutions. He's responsible for the success of our customer-facing project delivery, as well as the capability and growth of our delivery team.

Architecture Decision Records

Architecture Decision Records

James Broome

An Architecture Decision Record (ADR) is a lightweight document that captures a significant decision in technical architecture or design, providing context and consequences of the decision. This blog post highlights the positive impact of adopting the ADR process, based on real-world experience of applying them in a variety of different scenarios.
Copilot - Are You Ready to Unleash the Power of AI in Self Service Analytics?

Copilot - Are You Ready to Unleash the Power of AI in Self Service Analytics?

James Broome

In the ever-evolving landscape of data and analytics, the advent of AI-powered capabilities has opened up exciting possibilities for self service reporting. Tools like Copilot in Power BI and Microsoft Fabric offer users the ability to extract insights from data using natural language prompts. It's an enticing prospect, where anyone can explore, visualize, and analyze data without being constrained by pre-canned reports or relying on data engineering teams. However, as we start to embrace these new capabilities, it's essential to strike a balance between the potential benefits and potential pitfalls.
Insight Discovery (part 6) – How to define business requirements for a successful cloud data & analytics project

Insight Discovery (part 6) – How to define business requirements for a successful cloud data & analytics project

James Broome

Many data projects fail to deliver the impact they should for a simple reason – they focus on the data. This series of posts explains a different way of thinking that will set up your data & analytics projects for success. Using an iterative, action-oriented, insight discovery process, it demonstrates tools and techniques that will help you to identify, define and prioritize requirements in your own projects so that they deliver maximum value. It also explores the synergy with modern cloud analytics platforms like Azure Synapse, explaining how the process and the architecture actively support each other for fast, impactful delivery.

Ed Freeman

Ed Freeman

Software Engineer II

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Ed is a Data Engineer helping to deliver projects for clients of all shapes and sizes, providing best of breed technology solutions to industry specific challenges. He focusses primarily on cloud technologies, data analytics and business intelligence, though his Mathematical background has also led to a distinct interest in Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, and other related fields.

He also curates a weekly newsletter, Power BI Weekly, where you can receive all the latest Power BI news, for free.

Ed won the Cloud Apprentice of the Year at the Computing Rising Star Awards 2019.

Microsoft Fabric: Announced

Microsoft Fabric: Announced

Ed Freeman

Microsoft Fabric extends the promise of Azure Synapse integration to all analytics workloads from the data engineer to the business knowledge worker. It brings together Power BI, Data Factory, and the Data Lake, on a new generation of the Synapse data infrastructure. Delivered as a unified SaaS offering, it aims to reduce cost and time to value, while enabling new "citizen data science" capabilities. Check out all the resources from the endjin team collated in this post.
What is OneLake?

What is OneLake?

Ed Freeman

Explore OneLake, Microsoft Fabric's core storage for data in Azure & other clouds. Discover its role in Fabric workloads, the OneDrive equivalent for data storage.
Intro to Microsoft Fabric

Intro to Microsoft Fabric

Ed Freeman

Microsoft Fabric unifies data & analytics, building on Azure Synapse Analytics for improved data-level interoperability. Explore its offerings & pros/cons.

Jonathan George

Jonathan George

Software Engineer IV

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Jon is an experienced project lead and architect who has spent nearly 20 years delivering industry-leading solutions for clients across multiple industries including oil and gas, retail, financial services and healthcare. At endjin, he helps clients take advantage of the huge opportunities presented by cloud technologies to better understand and grow their businesses.

Optimising .NET code: Avoiding allocations using Span<T>

Optimising .NET code: Avoiding allocations using Span<T>

Jonathan George

Investigate some ways of working with strings that prevent unnecessary memory allocations.
Optimising .NET code: Let's blame LINQ

Optimising .NET code: Let's blame LINQ

Jonathan George

Investigate the impact of basic LINQ functions on performance and memory allocation.
Optimising .NET code: Hunting for allocations

Optimising .NET code: Hunting for allocations

Jonathan George

Explore basic techniques for benchmarking and identifying allocation sources in code.

Liam Mooney

Liam Mooney

Apprentice Engineer III

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Liam studied an MSci in Physics at University College London, which included modules on Statistical Data Analysis, High Performance Computing, Practical Physics and Computing. This led to his dissertation exploring the use of machine learning techniques for analysing LHC particle collision data.

Before joining endjin, Liam had a keen interest in data science and engineering, and did a number of related internships. However, since joining endjin he has developed a much broader set of interest, including DevOps and more general software engineering. He is currently exploring those interests and finding his feet in the tech space.

C# Design Patterns - Iterator - The Pattern

C# Design Patterns - Iterator - The Pattern

Liam Mooney

Iteration is a core part of programming and the iterator design pattern is central to how we do iteration in C#. This post introduces the iterator pattern and shows how to implement it from scratch.
Data validation in Python: a look into Pandera and Great Expectations

Data validation in Python: a look into Pandera and Great Expectations

Liam Mooney

Data validation is a vital step in any data-oriented workstream. This post investigates and compares two popular Python data validation packages - Pandera and Great Expectations
How To Implement Continuous Deployment of Python Packages with GitHub Actions

How To Implement Continuous Deployment of Python Packages with GitHub Actions

Liam Mooney

This post demonstrates how to use GitHub Actions to automatically publish updates to your Python package to PyPI, and explores whether this constitutes Continuous Deployment

Paul Waller

Paul Waller

Designer

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Paul has over 20 years of creative experience in design, and delivering user and customer experiences across 3D, print, and digital disciplines. As endjin’s designer, Paul enables customers and the team to visualise abstract concepts. Whether it’s UX, or dashboards for financial and retail services, television props for the Great British Menu, illustrations and animations for promotion and marketing campaigns, or logos and iconography for design systems, Paul is responsible for making concepts look and feel great, in a way our customers can understand.

How to develop an accessible colour palette for Power BI

How to develop an accessible colour palette for Power BI

Paul Waller

If the audience for your Power BI report is larger than 12 people, then statistically 1 of your audience suffers from Colour Vision Deficiency. In this post we will talk through how we experimented with colour to develop an accessible colour palette and why colour and contrast is important when it comes to data visualisation.
How to enable data teams with the design assets required for impactful data storytelling in Power BI

How to enable data teams with the design assets required for impactful data storytelling in Power BI

Paul Waller

In this post we will talk through how to expand on a data team's creative skillset, without access to specialist photo editing software such as Photoshop or Illustrator.
How to Create Custom Buttons in Power BI

How to Create Custom Buttons in Power BI

Paul Waller

Explore a step-by-step guide on designing custom buttons in Power BI, covering shape, form, icons, states, actions, and enhancing report design & UI.

2021 Internship Cohort

Thea Bautista

Thea Bautista

Intern

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Thanks to a volunteering placement which opened her eyes to the capabilities of technological innovation, Thea studies Biomedical Engineering at King's College London.

Here, she found her love for code through her programming modules and entertains her tech interests in her spare time through online courses and coding-driven projects.

Wanting to learn more about work-life in a tech company and the ins-and-outs of how businesses are run, she joined endjin's 2021 intern cohort.

From start to finish: my internship at endjin

From start to finish: my internship at endjin

Thea Bautista

Thea studies Biomedical Engineering at King's College London, in this post she summarises her 6 week internship at endjin.

Nehemiah Campbell

Nehemiah Campbell

Intern

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Nehemiah is a graduate from the University of Bristol, gaining a 1st Class Masters of Science in Mathematics with Statistics. During his summer internship, Nehemiah worked with Python to pre-process, gather insights from data and developed a machine learning model. He has an interest in automating processes to solve daily inefficiencies and building robust solutions.

Nehemiah worked at endjin between 2021-2022.

Month one at endjin

Month one at endjin

Nehemiah Campbell

In this post, Nehemiah reflects on his first month at endjin as an apprentice engineer.

Klaudia Guz

Klaudia Guz

Intern

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Klaudia was an intern and an Electronic Engineering student at University of Southampton.

During her degree she learned about electronic devices and computer architecture which sparked her interest in technology. This led Klaudia to apply for the internship at endjin and she's hoping to join again next year as an apprentice.

My internship experience

My internship experience

Klaudia Guz

Klaudia studies Electronic Engineering at University of Southampton, and reflects on her two month internship.

Amy Shaw

Amy Shaw

Intern

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Amy was a student at the University of Reading studying Biomedical Engineering.

She loves all things tech and hopes to work as a Software Engineer post-graduation. She loves the problem solving aspects of programming and feeling like she's constantly learning new things.

Outside of academics and work, Amy is passionate about art and enjoys painting in her spare time. She also enjoys languages and is learning Spanish in addition to her native languages English and Khmer.

Amy's summer as an intern endjineer

Amy's summer as an intern endjineer

Amy Shaw

Amy is studying Biomedical Engineering University of Reading, and reflects on her two month summer internship at endjin learning C# and Python, and working on a data science project.

Alumni - gone, but not forgotten!