Tobias Neil

Tobias joined the NCR frigate in late January 2015 and became part of the proud mobile banking rowboat shortly thereafter. He’s a software engineer fresh out of university and as such is very excited to finally get to do “you know, real stuff. I mean, not REAL real stuff, like carpentry or… ah, you know what I mean.”. He is at any rate enjoying his current position tremendously, relishing in the novelty of its challenges and the great atmosphere of the Edinburgh office.

While some people may find the rapid changes of the 21st century alarming, for Tobias change cannot come quick enough: He silently bides his time until parallelisation will make functional programming ubiquitous, at which point he will spring from the shadows shouting incoherently about Erlang and pure Haskell functions. In the meantime he’s happy working with Java and C (if the opportunity arises), and has since joining NCR rediscovered a fascination for the flexibility of JavaScript, a language he hasn’t touched since his days programming games in the Unity engine, way back when iPods still had click-wheels.

Tobias’ great passion outside of modern technology is choral music. From renaissance to contemporary composers his love for the art form knows no bounds, and will at the merest hint of interest (or completely unsolicitedly) start preaching about this composer or that era, holding musical snobbery and haughty exclusion as the gravest of cardinal sins. Once at a party he was put in charge of the Spotify playlists; thirty minutes of Brahms later the decision was publicly announced to have been a mistake all along and he is for ever after relieved of the office of DJ.