Toby Jacobs
Leader (Head of Desktop Data Solutions, Solution Engineering) @Aon
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WORK HISTORY
Leader (Head of Desktop Data Solutions, Solution Engineering) @Aon
London, GB
I am responsible for leading the development of the Aon HCS desktop platform, focusing on enhancing user experience and data interaction. • Oversaw the inception and delivery of Electron- and WPF- based desktop applications and Office VSTO add-ins. • Utilized a range of technologies including Aeron, RabbitMQ and SQL to ensure robust backend functionality. • Collaborated on extending cloud-agnostic report request handling capabilities (K8s, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Redis), exposing our advanced analytics capabilities to product owners for integration.
EDUCATION
The University of Edinburgh
MA Philosophy (2:1), Philosophy
The University of Edinburgh
MSc Evolution of Language and Cognition (Awaiting Result), Linguistics, Informatics, Philosophy, Biology, Statistics
SKILLS
ABOUT TOBY JACOBS
Thought-leader, passionate about driving forwards the capabilities of a broad range of users, with goals of radically changing the way colleagues work with and access data to deliver our products and services- Creative, ambitious and driven product developer, with particular expertise in C#, Rx, React/TS, SQL, WPF, VBA and COM Interop- Strong analytical skills, capable of analysing problems and optimizing processes, and presenting results and solutions to Senior Management- Track record in ideating and innovating solutions to problems across Business, Technical and Ux domains- Passionate about performant, scalable, extendable, and maintainable software- Additional expertise in HTML5/CSS, Python, XML languages (XML, XPath, XML Schema and XSLT) and Regular Expressions. Some limited experience with C, PHP, and Perl
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