Neil Danson
Senior Principal Software Engineer at SimCorp
Chatham, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNeil Danson is a Solution Architect with 12 years of professional experience and over 30 years of hands-on coding passion across desktop, web, cloud and GPU domains. He specializes in pragmatic, high-performance systems using F#, Rust, Go and C#, and has led teams to modernize legacy platforms and deliver order-of-magnitude performance improvements using async, actor patterns and event stores. At SimCorp he championed F# and open-source tooling, designed a testable, high-throughput server infrastructure and helped shape the company’s cloud roadmap while working closely with clients and CTO-level stakeholders. His background spans low-latency trading UIs, large-scale content systems and cross-language integrations, evidencing a rare blend of deep implementation skills and architectural leadership. Based in Chatham, UK, he still delights in solving hard technical problems and fostering knowledge-sharing through tech talks and hackathons.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
University of Lancashire
English
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Github Skills (62)
core-library10
dotnet10
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micro-c10
visual-studio10
nuget-package10
nuget9
paket9
mono9
fsharp9
functional-programming9
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
neildanson/MicroCS
Dec 2013 - Jan 2021
Micro C# Compiler
Contributions:1 review, 45 commits, 1 PR in 7 years 2 months
compilermicro-c
neildanson/c_compiler
Oct 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:194 pushes, 7 branches, 1 issue in 2 months
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