Toby Thain

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• My Company
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Toby Thain’s Summary

My interests and skills range from networking, protocols, concurrency, clustering and high availability, databases and data integrity, languages and tool building, and non-imperative problem solving paradigms.

My ideal position will leverage my strengths in creative thinking, architecture and design, description and implementation - at all levels from highly abstracted languages down to low level efficiency on modern hardware platforms.

Experience
- 20 years of portable C programming
- some Java OO design & client/server applications, ORM
- experience with bash, Perl, Erlang, C++, Lua
- approx 8 years of MySQL usage & admin; medium-advanced SQL
- several years using & admin Subversion with teams
- 10 years of Linux/UNIX sysadmin (Solaris, Debian, RedHat, Gentoo) on colocated servers
- admin DNS, SMTP servers (sendmail, Postfix), Apache, PHP+Perl applications, OpenVPN
- solid networking, SSL, security, and operating system concepts
- effective written and spoken communicator
- experienced with wikis & issue tracking (Twiki, Trac, Bugzilla)
- led successful international development team

Toby Thain’s Specialties:

C programming; Linux and UNIX system administration (Apache, mail servers, RDBMS, DNS, Subversion, Bugzilla); Assembly language programming (various platforms including Microchip PIC18); Scripting (shell, Perl, PHP, PostScript); SQL.

Additional Information

Toby Thain’s Websites:

• My Company
• Flickr