He is the designer and architect of the F# programming language, described by a reporter as being regarded as "the most original new face in computer languages since Bjarne Stroustrup developed C++ in the early 1980s.
"[1] Earlier, Syme created generics in the .NET Common Language Runtime, including the initial design of generics for the C# programming language, along with others including Andrew Kennedy[1][2] and later Anders Hejlsberg.
Kennedy, Syme and Dachuan Yu also formalized this widely used system.
[3] He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge,[1] and is a member of the IFIP working group on functional programming.
[5] In 2015, he was honored with a Silver Medal from the Royal Academy of Engineering.