Nick Hall
About Nick Hall
Nick Hall is a Senior Data Engineer at Thomson Reuters in London, United Kingdom, where he has worked since 2018. He specializes in developing tools for data management and has a background in IT and data engineering spanning over two decades.
Work at Thomson Reuters
Nick Hall has been employed at Thomson Reuters since 2018, serving as a Senior Data Engineer in London, United Kingdom. In this role, he developed a self-serve tool that enables analysts and developers to set up feeds into development and test environments. This tool was further enhanced to simplify production releases. Prior to his current position, he worked as a Data Engineer at Thomson Reuters from 2014 to 2018, where he contributed to various data engineering projects.
Education and Expertise
Nick Hall completed his BSc in Business Information Technology at Bournemouth University from 2000 to 2004. He also studied at The Sixth Form College, Farnborough, where he achieved A-Levels in Maths, IT, and Business Studies from 1998 to 2000. Additionally, he obtained GCSEs in Maths, Science, and English at Yateley from 1993 to 1998. Currently, he is pursuing the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner course, learning PowerBI on LinkedIn Learning, and starting to learn Python on OpenEDG.
Professional Background
Before joining Thomson Reuters, Nick Hall held several positions in the IT and data sectors. He worked as an IT Student Placement at Avis Europe PLC from 2002 to 2003 and as a Data Administrator at ntl:Telewest Business for five months in 2006. He also served as an IT Support Technician at PRACTICAL LAW COMPANY LIMITED from 2006 to 2010. His early career included a temporary role at Hays from 2004 to 2005.
Achievements in Data Engineering
Nick Hall has made significant contributions to data engineering processes. He assisted in creating a Dependency Tool that improved the orchestration of loads, reducing usage load time by two hours. He also decreased the core ELT process by five hours through SQL tuning, data structure refactoring, and implementing parallel processing. Additionally, he created daily email reports and PowerBI dashboards to monitor ELT performance and validation at all pipeline steps.
Community Involvement
Nick Hall actively participates in the analytics community. He attends steering group meetings, maintains the group intranet site, and promotes speaker sessions. He has also created a workflow in Alteryx to track attendance and feedback for analytics community speaker sessions, which is presented in PowerBI dashboards.