Robin Neatherway
Research Engineer at XBOW
Greater Oxford Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRobin Neatherway is a research engineer with 13 years of experience building reliable, research-led developer tooling and large-scale code analysis systems. He has blended academic rigor (DPhil, postdoc at Oxford) with industry impact as a staff engineer at GitHub and Sanity and now leads research engineering at XBOW. His open-source contributions span language servers, build tooling and program analysis—ranging from FsAutoComplete and FAKE to the influential CodeQL action—demonstrating a focus on robustness, cross-platform compatibility and test infrastructure. Comfortable across backend and full-stack roles, he routinely fixes subtle correctness and interoperability issues that improve maintainability for broad developer audiences. Notably, he moves fluently between formal research and production CI/CD concerns, turning deep technical insight into dependable developer experiences.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of OxfordMaster of Engineering (M.Eng.) Computer Science, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Computer Science at University of York
Github Skills (45)
code-optimization10
computer-algebra10
github-ci10
javascript10
debug10
cms10
python10
sphinx10
headlessui10
testing10
mathematics10
typescript10
cil10
math10
headless-browser10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
ionide/FsAutoComplete
Nov 2012 - Nov 2017
F# language server using Language Server Protocol
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:37 releases, 439 commits, 122 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Robin implemented and refined the "quit" command within the F# language server, adding it to the program's command input and main loop to control program termination. They extended the compiler wrapper to incorporate "quit" functionality. Further modifications included typo corrections and the addition of new files.
coc-nvimatom-pluginvisual-studio-codevimkakoune
github/codeql-action
Jun 2020 - Jan 2022
Actions for running CodeQL analysis
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:4 releases, 33 reviews, 69 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Robin focused on improving the testing infrastructure and ensuring the robustness of the CodeQL action. Their contributions included correcting test descriptions, simplifying singleton tests, and modifying the codebase to improve testing capabilities. The user's work also involved addressing issues in the build and deployment process, such as handling environment variables. They also contributed to the CI/CD pipeline by addressing incorrect configurations to ensure stability.
code-scanningsemmle-qladvanced-securitycodeqlci
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