Thomas Daykin-woodberry
Lead Infrastructure Consultant at BigHand
Southampton, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolThomas Daykin-woodberry is a Lead Infrastructure Consultant based in Southampton with a decade of hands-on experience in server administration, SQL performance, and Windows/Linux web stacks. He has progressed from frontline support and network engineering to leading infrastructure work at BigHand, with prior roles spanning data engineering, solutions consulting, and escalated application/database support. Thomas blends technical troubleshooting with process improvement and knowledge sharing—he’s regularly created documentation, training materials, and operational processes to boost team automation and reliability. An active backend contributor to the Antistasi Arma 3 mod, he applies disciplined logging, AI behavior tweaks, and verbose debugging practices to complex codebases outside of work. He also runs a gaming community (FTL Gaming), demonstrating practical experience in managing live services, vendor relationships, and community-facing web infrastructure. Willing to relocate, he pairs customer-focused consulting with a pragmatic, systems-first approach to reducing incidents and improving performance.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BTEC Extended Diploma, I.T Practitioners (Network Pathway), Distinction Distinction Merit, BTEC Extended Diploma, I.T Practitioners (Network Pathway), Distinction Distinction Merit at South Essex CollegeNVQ Level 2 Multi-Skilled Hospitality Service, Hospitality Administration/Management, Pass, NVQ Level 2 Multi-Skilled Hospitality Service, Hospitality Administration/Management, Pass at McDonald's ApprenticeshipLevel 3, ICT Systems and Principles, Diploma, Level 3, ICT Systems and Principles, Diploma at QA Limited
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Github Skills (11)
logging10
game-development10
iis6
ms-access6
asp-net6
active-directory6
datagridview6
oracle6
sql6
datasets6
oledb6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
official-antistasi-community/A3-Antistasi
Mar 2020 - Apr 2021
Antistasi Community Version - work in progress - Discord https://discord.com/invite/TYDwCRKnKX
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 18 commits, 56 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to backend logic and logging within the Antistasi mod for Arma 3. Their work included reordering code to improve the logical flow and adjusting the positioning of log messages. They added a verbose log level for enhanced debugging and modified crate functionality to adjust the available item types. They also worked on AI and postmortem behavior, potentially including cleanup tasks.
sourcemodsteamworksantistasidiscordin-progress
Toakan-Network/SimplePersist
Jul 2023 - Dec 2024
Contributions:4 PRs, 35 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 5 months
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