Toby Thurston
Executive Information Technology Architect
Greater Oxford Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolToby Thurston is an Executive IT Architect based in the Greater Oxford Area with over 30 years’ experience designing and implementing large, complex application systems and their end-to-end infrastructure. He specializes in performance, throughput and reliability engineering, forensic analysis of legacy systems, predictive sizing and server platform strategy, delivering measurable improvements across banking, commerce and public-sector clients. At IBM he combines deep technical fluency with practical delivery, translating messy, mission-critical estates into quantifiable, resilient architectures. Unusually for a technologist, he pairs a classics MA from Oxford with a first-class BSc in Mathematics and Statistics, reflecting both analytical rigor and broad intellectual curiosity.
11 years of coding experience
BSc, MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS, First, BSc, MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS, First at The Open UniversityMaster of Arts - MA, Literae Humaniores (Classics), Master of Arts - MA, Literae Humaniores (Classics) at University of Oxford
Stackoverflow
1,497reputation
311kreached
9answers
4questions
python
top-5%
Github Skills (24)
python10
metapost10
programming-language9
drawing9
grids8
sarif7
grid7
latexmk7
latex6
tex6
unicode6
logarithm6
plot6
lattice6
tuples6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
thruston/tex-tristram
Apr 2022 - Dec 2024
Contributions:1 release, 134 pushes, 1 tag in 2 years 8 months
thruston/perl-agenda
Oct 2015 - Sep 2023
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 11 months
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