Stu Taylor
Co-founder CTO at Dubious Design
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolStu Taylor is a pragmatic CTO and co-founder with 13 years of experience building dependable, production-grade systems across SRE and software engineering roles. He cut his teeth on reliability at Google, scaled distributed systems at Improbable, and spent time in high-performance trading software at Jane Street before launching Dubious Design. Trained in pure mathematics and computer science at the University of Edinburgh, he brings a rigorous, skeptical approach to engineering — famously uninterested in glorified CRUD — and focuses on robust, maintainable architecture over hype. Based in Edinburgh, he balances deep systems expertise with startup grit, turning hard problems into reliable, operational products.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Pure Mathematics, MSc Pure Mathematics at The University of Edinburgh
c++, weegie
Github Skills (138)
proto10
extensible10
microservices10
noise10
terrain-generation10
scalable10
protobuf10
grpc10
foundry10
java10
serialization10
rpc10
bazel-rules10
bazel10
cube10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
grandseiken/factorio-ultracube
Dec 2023 - Mar 2025
Factorio overhaul mod with a focus on logistic and automation challenges
Contributions:8 reviews, 34 PRs, 275 pushes in 1 year 3 months
cubefactoriofactorio-modluamod
grandseiken/dotfiles
May 2015 - Aug 2022
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 4 months
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