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Key Skills

Excellent academic performance in analytical subjects (coding, math, statistics, etc.)
Fast learner (example: learned fluent Portuguese in < 6 months)
High working capacity (example: MSc at NTNU was completed during full time job as engineer)

Technical skills

Languages: Python, JavaScript, C++
Databases: SQL, Snowflake
Frameworks: FastAPI, Panel(Holoviz)
Cloud computing: AWS, GCP Docker, Kubernetes
DevOps: CI/CD, GitHub

Languages

Norwegian: Native
English: Speak and write fluently
Portuguese: Speak and write fluently

Ivar Soares Urdalen

Currently working as a Data Engineer in the Alternative Data space for finance.

In addition to work, I am currently pursuing a MSc in Financial Engineering from World Quant University while also taking courses/certifications and developing my own coding projects in intersection of data engineering and finance. Check out my website to learn more about me and connect.

Work

Current \| 2023	Data Engineer \| Exabel \| Oslo, Norway 1. Developing and maintaining data pipelines. 2. Python backend development Tech: GCP, Kubernetes, Python, SQL, Snowflake, etc.
2022 \| 2017	Senior Consulting Civil Engineer \| Ramboll \| Drammen, Norway 1. Leading consulting projects for water engineering (pipelines, pumping stations, treatment plants, stormwater design, etc.) 2. Typically having the Discipline Lead role in projects 3. Tasks: Producing tender documents, reports, design review, project management, BIM/CAD design. 4. Example of IT project: Assisting in deploying prototype for project QA with Python web app (Flask framework)
2017 \| 2015	Project Manager \| Aqua Unique Norway \| Drammen, Norway 1. Tasks: Technical design in project, project management, contracts, supplier negotiations, marketing, strategy and recruitment. 2. Development of Excel spreadsheets for project budgets, pricing models, supplier comparison, technical design, etc. 3. Assisting with operation of IT infrastructure (website, email, file server, backup, wiki, CRM system, etc)
2015 \| 2014	Consulting Civil Engineer \| Asplan Viak \| Oslo, Norway Tasks: Water and wastewater treatment plant design and BIM/CAD modelling. Material takeoff, P&ID, tender documents.
2012	Engineering Intern \| COWI \| Oslo, Norway Design of water distribution systems, and CAD modelling.
2009	Developer Intern \| Silicon Labs formerly Energy Micro \| Oslo, Norway C programming for development kit for energy efficient microcontroller.

Personal Projects

Current
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2022

Stock Analysis Dashboard
Technology: Python, Plotly/Dash, SQlite
Created a dashboard for statistical and technical analysis of stocks.

Education

Current \| 2022	MSc in Financial Engineering \| World Quant University Courses: Financial Markets, Financial Data, Financial Econometrics, Derivative Pricing, Stochastic Modeling, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Portfolio Management, Risk Management Heavy focus on using Python for data analysis
2015 \| 2010	MSc in Civil and Environmental Engineering \| Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) \| Trondheim, Norway Average Grade: A Additional courses: Algorithms and Data Structures, Finance, Business Economics, C++ Programming
2014	MSc Student exchange - Civil Engineering \| Federal University of Santa Catarina \| Florianopolis, Brazil All student work and lectures in Portuguese
2013	Spanish and Portuguese Language Studies \| Independent learning \| South America Web apps, audio courses, etc
2009 \| 2008	1st year - MSc in Cybernetics and Robotics \| Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) \| Trondheim, Norway Grade (1st yr): A

Awards

2007	Winner of Informatics Olympiad for High School Students \| Norwegian Informatics Olympiad \| Trondheim, Norway Algorithmic Programming Competition for High School Students (C++ Programming) Participated in Baltic Informatics Olympiad (BOI) and International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI).

Courses

Current \| 2023	Cloud Data Engineer Professional Certificate \| Google (Coursera) Dataflow (Apache Beam), Dataproc (Spark/Hadoop), Data Fusion, Cloud Composer (Airflow), BigQuery, Streaming (Kafka). Preparation for taking the certification exam.
Current \| 2022	Applied Data Science Lab \| World Quant University Practical application of Python for Data Science (pandas, scikit-learn, model building, etc)
2022	Data Engineering Foundations - Certificate \| LinkedIn Learning ETL pipelines, Hive, Hadoop, Spark, and Airflow
2014	Data Analysis and Statistical Inference - Certificate \| Duke University (Coursera) Statistics, Inference of Numerical and Categorical variables, Multiple Linear Regression
2013	Computing for Data Analysis - Certificate \| Johns Hopkins (Coursera) Intro course for R
2012	Machine Learning - Certificate \| Stanford (Coursera) Logistic Regression, Neural Networks, Support Vector Machines, K-means clustering, Principal Component Analysis

This data driven CV is made with Quarto and Google Sheets. Last updated on feb. 10, 2024.
Code available on GitHub.

Current \| 2023	Data Engineer \| Exabel \| Oslo, Norway 1. Developing and maintaining data pipelines. 2. Python backend development Tech: GCP, Kubernetes, Python, SQL, Snowflake, etc.
2022 \| 2017	Senior Consulting Civil Engineer \| Ramboll \| Drammen, Norway 1. Leading consulting projects for water engineering (pipelines, pumping stations, treatment plants, stormwater design, etc.) 2. Typically having the Discipline Lead role in projects 3. Tasks: Producing tender documents, reports, design review, project management, BIM/CAD design. 4. Example of IT project: Assisting in deploying prototype for project QA with Python web app (Flask framework)
2017 \| 2015	Project Manager \| Aqua Unique Norway \| Drammen, Norway 1. Tasks: Technical design in project, project management, contracts, supplier negotiations, marketing, strategy and recruitment. 2. Development of Excel spreadsheets for project budgets, pricing models, supplier comparison, technical design, etc. 3. Assisting with operation of IT infrastructure (website, email, file server, backup, wiki, CRM system, etc)
2015 \| 2014	Consulting Civil Engineer \| Asplan Viak \| Oslo, Norway Tasks: Water and wastewater treatment plant design and BIM/CAD modelling. Material takeoff, P&ID, tender documents.
2012	Engineering Intern \| COWI \| Oslo, Norway Design of water distribution systems, and CAD modelling.
2009	Developer Intern \| Silicon Labs formerly Energy Micro \| Oslo, Norway C programming for development kit for energy efficient microcontroller.

Current \| 2022	MSc in Financial Engineering \| World Quant University Courses: Financial Markets, Financial Data, Financial Econometrics, Derivative Pricing, Stochastic Modeling, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Portfolio Management, Risk Management Heavy focus on using Python for data analysis
2015 \| 2010	MSc in Civil and Environmental Engineering \| Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) \| Trondheim, Norway Average Grade: A Additional courses: Algorithms and Data Structures, Finance, Business Economics, C++ Programming
2014	MSc Student exchange - Civil Engineering \| Federal University of Santa Catarina \| Florianopolis, Brazil All student work and lectures in Portuguese
2013	Spanish and Portuguese Language Studies \| Independent learning \| South America Web apps, audio courses, etc
2009 \| 2008	1st year - MSc in Cybernetics and Robotics \| Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) \| Trondheim, Norway Grade (1st yr): A

Current \| 2023	Cloud Data Engineer Professional Certificate \| Google (Coursera) Dataflow (Apache Beam), Dataproc (Spark/Hadoop), Data Fusion, Cloud Composer (Airflow), BigQuery, Streaming (Kafka). Preparation for taking the certification exam.
Current \| 2022	Applied Data Science Lab \| World Quant University Practical application of Python for Data Science (pandas, scikit-learn, model building, etc)
2022	Data Engineering Foundations - Certificate \| LinkedIn Learning ETL pipelines, Hive, Hadoop, Spark, and Airflow
2014	Data Analysis and Statistical Inference - Certificate \| Duke University (Coursera) Statistics, Inference of Numerical and Categorical variables, Multiple Linear Regression
2013	Computing for Data Analysis - Certificate \| Johns Hopkins (Coursera) Intro course for R
2012	Machine Learning - Certificate \| Stanford (Coursera) Logistic Regression, Neural Networks, Support Vector Machines, K-means clustering, Principal Component Analysis