Summary
Harry Toigo is an experienced IT manager and software developer with a multi-decade relationship to coding that began in 1979 and a recent nine-year span of professional experience refreshed aggressively since 2020. He blends hands-on expertise in database design, desktop and web development with practical IT operations—having built resilient multi-site networks, VoIP systems, and Windows domain infrastructures for nonprofit organizations. Comfortable with functional programming and languages like Haskell and Lisp, he is passionate about clear, correct code and has retooled his stack to include modern frontend and backend web technologies. Harry pairs technical depth with operational leadership, having led teams in high-volume clinical and shelter environments and driven measurable improvements such as a 35% reliability boost and 40% vendor cost reductions. He holds strong academic credentials across multiple universities in computer science and mathematics and brings an uncommon combination of long-term self-taught practice, formal study, and nonprofit-focused systems thinking. Based in California, he’s a pragmatic problem-solver who equally values elegant code and durable, user-centered IT solutions.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, 4.0, Computer Science, 4.0 at University of California, Berkeley
Computer Science / Artificial Intelligence, 3.9, Computer Science / Artificial Intelligence, 3.9 at University of Chicago
Bachelor's degree, ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE/LETTERS, 3.8, Bachelor's degree, ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE/LETTERS, 3.8 at Boston University
Computer Science, 4.0, Computer Science, 4.0 at University of Pennsylvania
Mathematics and Computer Science, 4.0, Mathematics and Computer Science, 4.0 at California State University - East Bay