2degrees
Jaryd Thornton is a Senior Data Engineer at 2degrees, with previous experience at Vocus New Zealand in various roles including Data Engineer and Insights Analyst. Prior to that, Jaryd worked at CallPlus as a Sales Consultant. In addition, Jaryd was the Co-Founder of Rain City, a Tattoo and Apparel Studio. Jaryd also has experience as the Managing Director of JCT PROPERTIES LIMITED, providing investment solutions to first home buyers and property investors. Jaryd holds a degree in Data Science and Machine Learning from General Assembly and a degree in Industrial and Product Design from Auckland University of Technology.
2degrees
2degrees is a full service telecommunications provider. We launched in 2009, significantly lowering the cost of mobile for Kiwis, but we've actually been around a little while longer. Back in the 90s a visionary group of Maori challenged the crown through the Treaty of Waitangi and won the rights to 3G spectrum. Despite financial and regulatory adversity a Maori Trust (Hautaki) was established with the challenge of launching New Zealand’s third mobile network. Since then, we’ve been busy. We have built a brand new mobile network, helping us to cover 98.5% of the places Kiwis live and work. In March 2015 we also acquired NZ's fourth largest ISP (Snap), and now offer internet services as well as mobile to Kiwis across the country. We all really believe in what we are trying to accomplish for our customers and New Zealand. We’ve even been lucky enough to be recognised for it along the way, with a number of awards for our customer service over the years.