Liam Quin
Troublemaker at Delightful Computing
Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolLiam Quin is an experienced XML and web standards specialist with over three decades working on SGML/HTML/XML tooling, standards development, and accessibility, including a long tenure as XML Activity Lead at the W3C. He combines deep technical skills in XSLT, XQuery, XML vocabularies and typographic design with a practitioner's experience delivering consulting, training, and professional services. Liam has led cross-group coordination at the W3C (CSS, SVG, Verifiable Claims) and headed initiatives like Improving Web Advertising, showing a talent for building consensus around complex technical standards. Now based in Ontario and running Delightful Computing, he is available for consulting while continuing focused XSLT and transformation work. A detail-oriented troublemaker by title, he brings both historical perspective from early SGML days and modern expertise in web architecture and accessibility.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BSc. (Hons.), Computer Science, BSc. (Hons.), Computer Science at University of WarwickSamuel Whitbread Upper School and Community College
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Github Skills (176)
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javascript10
safari10
browser10
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microsoft-edge10
morph10
firefox10
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
liamquin/boring-expansion-spec
Jul 2023 - Jan 2024
Forked from Better-Engineered Font Formats; Part 1. Boring Expansion
Contributions:24 pushes, 8 branches in 6 months
liamquin/qt4specs
Feb 2025 - Mar 2025
fork of QT4 specifications for editing
Contributions:3 pushes in 13 days
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