Neil Boyd
Senior Software Engineer (.Net Azure) at NIPO
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolNeil Boyd is a Senior Software Engineer with 13+ years of professional experience building .NET and Azure-based systems from Amsterdam, currently leading the architecture and delivery of a market-research platform at NIPO. He combines deep C#/.NET expertise with hands-on cloud practice—designing high-availability Azure services, implementing CI/CD pipelines, and overseeing Scrum and remote teams. Neil's background spans older, mission-critical Tandem systems through Java and mobile Xamarin work, giving him rare breadth across legacy and modern stacks. An active open-source contributor, he’s helped localize the widely used Humanizer library for Kurdish and improved touch interaction in the osmdroid project, showing attention to internationalization and UX details. He also hires and mentors engineers, blending technical stewardship with practical project and people management.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Mathematics, BSc, Mathematics at University of Salford
Github Skills (15)
net10
asp-net10
javas10
internationalization10
localization10
application-integration10
dotnet10
user-interface10
integrate10
csharp10
system-integration10
android-development10
java10
dotnet-core10
testing9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
osmdroid/osmdroid
Mar 2014 - Oct 2016
OpenStreetMap-Tools for Android
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 100 commits, 7 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Neil's primary contribution appears to be integrating the `MultiTouchController` library, focusing on touch input and interaction handling within the osmdroid project. They integrated this library into the existing codebase, with the intent of providing more advanced control and responsiveness to the user. The commits show code changes and integrations, which suggest a focus on improving user interaction.
osmandroidopenstreetmap
Humanizr/Humanizer
Feb 2022 - Feb 2022
Humanizer meets all your .NET needs for manipulating and displaying strings, enums, dates, times, timespans, numbers and quantities
Role in this project:Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:3 reviews, 13 commits, 8 PRs in 18 days
Contributions summary:Neil primarily focused on adapting the project for the Kurdish language. They unskipped tests related to Kurdish localization and updated the test files to ensure correct translations for dates and timespans. Additional commits addressed warnings and implemented test cases to ensure correct singularization of words in the Kurdish language.
dotnetstringstimeshumanizercsharp
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