Toby Horne

Alteryx | Tableau | SQL | Snowflake | GCP | Azure

Toby graduated from Cardiff University with a BSc in Banking and Finance with French. During his previous roles in finance and recruitment, he witnessed businesses leveraging data to automate processes and drive performance, inspiring him to pursue a career in data.

Toby’s Data School placements have allowed him to work on significant projects for clients ranging from multi-billion-pound defence corporations to the Football Association. Throughout this time, Toby’s highlights include:

  • Architecting secure embedded analytics solutions for a royalty audit web portal, integrating Tableau dashboards with Snowflake using the Tableau Embedding API.

  • Engineering Row-Level Security (RLS) protocols within Snowflake and Tableau to ensure multi-tenant data isolation, critical for sensitive compliance.

  • Snowflake environment setup and cost management strategies, including the configuration of resource monitors, warehouse auto-suspend policies, and credit usage tracking to prevent budget overruns.

  • Automating data orchestration and preparation using Alteryx and Power Automate to bridge the gap between raw inputs and Snowflake, ensuring the timely delivery of key data products for C-suite dashboards.

  • Optimising SQL queries to reduce dashboard load time and improve warehouse resource efficiency in Google BigQuery.

  • Redesigning legacy workflows for server-based automation in Alteryx, improving data accuracy and efficiency.

  • Building and optimising Tableau dashboards for various business needs, such as recruitment analysis and performance tracking for the Men’s National England team.

  • Leading advanced Alteryx training sessions for large groups of colleagues focused on best practices and building automated solutions for deployment on Alteryx Server.

  • Extracting and cleaning data from APIs using Alteryx and Python.

  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams in an Agile environment to deliver solutions for large multinational organisations.

Outside the office, he enjoys cooking, music and wondering if he'll ever break 90 on the golf course.

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