Thomas Pickup

Senior Network Engineer @RIEDEL Communications

Wuppertal, DE

As a Senior Network Engineer with RIEDEL, I’m permanently assigned to the Motorsport Project, working directly with the FIA to design, deploy, and maintain paddock and event-based networking systems across global race sites.I collaborate closely with our support teams across the Pitlane, serving as a point of escalation for complex network and compute issues to ensure reliability and performance during critical live operations.My current role involves working across a diverse technology stack, including Aruba, Fortinet, pfSense, Mellanox, and Cisco networking equipment. I’m also deeply involved in building and maintaining the observability stack, helping to improve visibility, monitoring, and proactive incident response. Beyond networking, I have hands-on expertise with HPE and VMware infrastructure.I’m passionate about operational excellence, emerging network technologies, and continuously enhancing system observability and resilience in fast-paced, mission-critical environments.

St Mary's College Blackburn

A Levels, Electronics, Computing, Maths

St Bede's RC High School

GCSE's

Queen's University Belfast

Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science