Thomas Pickup
Senior Network Engineer at RIEDEL Communications
Cherwell District, England, United Kingdom
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolThomas Pickup is a Senior Network Engineer with 11 years’ experience designing and operating mission-critical IT and networking systems across motorsport and enterprise environments. Based in Oxfordshire and a Computer Science graduate from Queen’s University Belfast, he specialises in live-event networking for global race sites, collaborating directly with the FIA and supporting trackside operations where uptime is non-negotiable. His hands-on stack spans Aruba, Fortinet, pfSense, Mellanox, Cisco, HPE, and VMware, and he leads observability and incident-response improvements to boost resilience under pressure. Thomas blends deep Microsoft and Apple platform knowledge with automation skills in PowerShell and Python, informed by security-focused roles earlier in his career. Comfortable as both a field engineer and escalation point for complex compute and network issues, he thrives on solving unconventional problems in fast-moving, high-stakes settings. Outside pure networking, his background in hospitality and customer-facing roles gives him a pragmatic, service-oriented approach to team support and stakeholder communication.
11 years of coding experience
GCSE's, GCSE's at St Bede's RC High SchoolBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, 2:2, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, 2:2 at Queen's University BelfastA Levels, Electronics, Computing, Maths, A*, A, A, A Levels, Electronics, Computing, Maths, A*, A, A at St Mary's College Blackburn
English
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (11)
system-analysis6
cuckoo5
ios5
swift5
sandbox5
security4
malware4
smack3
chat-application2
chat2
slack1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
thomaspickup/udemy-ios11-course
Sep 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:206 commits, 84 PRs, 175 pushes in 1 year 2 months
swiftiosswift-4
thomaspickup/udemy-django-course
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:1 release, 18 commits, 8 pushes in 1 day
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.