Trevor Fountain
Founder at QuailHQ
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTrevor Fountain is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 17 years of experience building production systems, from machine-learning research to customer-facing SaaS. He co-founded Quail, growing a niche point-of-sale and reporting platform for antique malls to a $600k+ ARR product used daily by hundreds of small businesses. Previously he led engineering teams at Palantir across multiple regions, shipped indie games and engines at Blazing Griffin, and published ML and cognitive-science research from a PhD in Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Trevor moves fluidly between roles as solo developer, small-team lead, and enterprise contributor, with hands-on experience in real-time alerting, fraud detection, and high-performance text-processing tools. He combines academic depth in computational linguistics with practical product instincts—having also built digital publishing and iOS apps—and is equally at home designing APIs or tuning large-scale data systems. Based in Edinburgh, he’s open to technical leadership or co-founder roles and enjoys translating research ideas into reliable shipped software.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Informatics at The University of EdinburghBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (76)
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javascript9
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swift9
ruby9
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
doches/shownotes-theme
Oct 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:19 commits, 1 push, 2 branches in 1 month
doches/Komet
Sep 2016 - Mar 2022
Contributions:14 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 7 months
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