Rhys Buckton
London
Summary
Data Engineer with 5 years of experience designing, building, and operating production-grade data platforms and pipelines. Proven record of producing robust, scalable and maintainable technical solutions that adhere to best engineering principles. Driven by intellectual curiosity and a strong desire to contribute to the advancement of biomedical science.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Data Engineer
BP
London
2021.06 - Current
- Core member of DevOps-led Data Platform team responsible for building and operating a cloud-native data platform used by 300+ commodity traders, analysts, and data scientists.
- Designed, built, and operated scalable, production-grade data pipelines using Python, T-SQL, and Databricks and Kubernetes.
- Built relational data models and optimised query performance across complex analytical workloads, enabling fast, discoverable, and highly queryable datasets for downstream analytics and reporting.
- Served as principal T-SQL Database Engineer, owning performance tuning, capacity planning, security, incident investigation, and optimisation strategies across mission-critical data systems.
- Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins to automate build, test, and deployment of data pipelines, infrastructure components and custom tools.
- Led the design of enterprise Power BI semantic models and reporting layers, enabling consistent, governed access to curated datasets across the organisation.
- Acted as a technical mentor and reviewer for junior engineers, driving best practices in data engineering, testing, platform reliability, and software development.
- Champion of DevOps and DataOps best practices, embedding monitoring, observability, and reliability into all production data pipelines.
Data Engineering Consultant Trainee
Kubrick Group
London
2021.03 - 2021.06
- Received training in concepts such as data modelling, version control, Agile methodology and cloud technology.
- Received technical training in use of T-SQL and Python.
Research Intern
NeuroInformatics Group, University of Vienna
Vienna
2020.03 - 2020.11
- Awarded funding from Erasmus.
- Explored novel methods to identify temporal windows for optimal BCI (brain computer interface) communication with a patient with late-stage ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis).
- Taught myself to code in Python while working remotely during the Covid-19 lockdown.
- Created pipelines and statistical toolkits for EEG data analysis.
Research Intern
Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences
Amsterdam
2019.01 - 2019.07
- Investigated how different brain regions communicate during multi-sensory processing.
- Developed data pipelines in MATLAB to process, analyse and visualise electrophysiological data.
- Co-authored a paper published in the Cerebral Cortex journal.
Education
Master of Science - Cognitive Neurobiology & Clinical Neurophysiology
University of Amsterdam
Netherlands 2018.09 - 2020.11
Bachelor of Science - Neuroscience
University of Bristol
Bristol 2013.09 - 2016.06
A-Levels - Maths, Biology, Chemistry, Physics
Gillingham Comprehensive Sixth Form
Dorset 2011.09 - 2013.06
GCSEs -
Gillingham Comprehensive
Dorset 2009.09 - 2011.06
Skills
- Python (Pandas, NumPy, SQLAlchemy)
- T-SQL
- Databricks
- Kubernetes (EKS)
- ETL
- Unit testing
- E2E testing
- PostgreSQL
- Groovy
- Jenkins
- CI/CD
- Git
- MATLAB
- Power BI
- Copilot
- Azure DevOps
Affiliations
- Plays football, both 5-a-side and in a competitive 11-a-side league.
- Enjoys keeping fit and physical challenges. Completed the Bournemouth marathon and Leiden half marathon. Summited Huayna Potosi (6088m), Mount Kazbek (5054m) and Illiniza Norte (5248m).
- Appreciates reading, cooking and relaxing with friends/family.
Languages
English
Native
Spanish
Upper intermediate (B2)
Timeline
Data Engineer
BP
2021.06 - Current
Data Engineering Consultant Trainee
Kubrick Group
2021.03 - 2021.06
Research Intern
NeuroInformatics Group, University of Vienna
2020.03 - 2020.11
Research Intern
Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences
2019.01 - 2019.07
Master of Science - Cognitive Neurobiology & Clinical Neurophysiology
University of Amsterdam
2018.09 - 2020.11
Bachelor of Science - Neuroscience
University of Bristol
2013.09 - 2016.06
A-Levels - Maths, Biology, Chemistry, Physics
Gillingham Comprehensive Sixth Form
2011.09 - 2013.06
GCSEs -
Gillingham Comprehensive
2009.09 - 2011.06