Leon Du Toit
Section Leader at University of Oslo
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolLeon Du Toit is a data-focused technology leader with 13 years of experience building secure, research-grade data platforms and analytics tooling, currently leading the Services for Sensitive Data and Educloud at the University of Oslo. He combines a strong foundation in econometrics (MSc cum laude) with hands-on full-stack engineering, designing secure web APIs, encrypted data management, and services for long-term data integrity. As a member of the Architecture Review Board and IT security coordinator, he blends operational governance with pragmatic engineering to serve academic researchers at scale. Previously he applied open-source cloud analytics and data-science practices in industry and has led cross-border projects for authentication, authorization, and identity management across European research infrastructures. Notably, his background in macroeconomic modeling and policy consulting gives him an unusual ability to translate complex quantitative requirements into robust, auditable data systems.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Economics (cum laude), Economics, Econometrics, Political Science, Philosophy, Masters Economics (cum laude), Economics, Econometrics, Political Science, Philosophy at University of Stellenbosch
English, Afrikaans, Norwegian
Github Skills (74)
parser10
json-data10
http-api10
postgresql10
dbi10
data-transformation10
backup10
rest-api10
haskell10
pgsql10
r10
tsd10
s3cmd10
dplyr10
api10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
unioslo/tsd-api-docs
May 2022 - Feb 2025
documentation for the HTTP API
Contributions:14 reviews, 17 PRs, 65 pushes in 2 years 9 months
apihttp-api
leondutoit/shiny-server-on-ubuntu
Mar 2013 - Dec 2015
Contributions:11 commits, 1 push, 2 comments in 2 years 10 months
vagrantshiny-servershinyrstatson-server
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