Summary
James Mcneil is a Lead Software Engineer based in Vienna with nine years of experience bridging game development and enterprise software. Abertay University graduate in Computer Game Technology, he began his career shipping titles at Tag Games before transitioning to backend and systems work at SimCorp, where he progressed from Software Engineer to Lead in under four years. He combines low-level game programming instincts with pragmatic engineering for large-scale financial software, often translating performance-focused patterns into robust, maintainable services. Colleagues know him for rapidly iterating prototypes and then hardening them for production—an unusual blend of creative experimentation and disciplined delivery. Though primarily focused on commercial products, he maintains an active interest in game- and systems-related projects on GitHub, reflecting a continuous drive to learn and apply cross-domain techniques.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of science with honours, Computer Game Technology, Bachelors of science with honours, Computer Game Technology at Abertay University