Toby Foord
Head Of Software Development at Sapphire Holidays
Truro, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolToby Foord is a Head of Software Development with 11 years of experience building and leading teams to deliver mission-critical web platforms for the holiday letting industry. He specialises in the Microsoft .NET stack and Azure-backed DevOps practices, translating business needs into sustainable, high-performance web applications. Based in Truro, he progressed from hands-on web development and IT infrastructure roles to managing and architecting multi-year product roadmaps at Classic Cottages and Sapphire Holidays. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technical lead who balances delivery velocity with maintainability, and he has a knack for turning intranet and tooling projects into new revenue-generating services. With a BEng in Electronic Engineering, he brings both hardware-aware systems thinking and deep software craft to the teams he coaches.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BEng Electronic Engineering Analog and digital electronic design communications software design networking, BEng Electronic Engineering Analog and digital electronic design communications software design networking at University of Exeter
Github Skills (35)
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home-automation5
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
idodev/pushboard
Oct 2014 - Jun 2015
Contributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 7 months
open-datadata-loggingconfigurablelogging
idodev/idodev.github.com
Apr 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:34 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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