Thomas originally studied Physics to Masters level at the University of Durham, UK, before completing a second Masters in Computer Speech, Text and Internet Technology at the University of Cambridge in 2008. He has been working in machine learning and natural language processing for more than 10 years across a number of industries including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and recruitment. He has provided consulting services to the NHS, Tesco, Boehringer Ingelheim, and CV-Library. Besides his consulting work with Fast Data Science, he retains some academic links, where he gives a yearly talk in the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School at Oxford University.