Niall Quinn

Palermo, Sicily

Niall Quinn

Staff Engineer, builder, and motorsport technologist

I build reliable software systems, lead cross-platform engineering work, and still stay close to racing through data, simulation, and occasional driver coaching.

Niall Quinn portrait headshot

About

I am an Irish engineer based in Palermo, Sicily, where I live with my partner and our two daughters.

With 13+ years of experience, I started in Apple-platform engineering and now work comfortably across frontend, backend, and DevOps. I care deeply about architecture clarity, delivery confidence, and practical systems that hold up under pressure.

Engineering

Education

2017

BSc (Hons) in Computing

National College of Ireland

First Class Honours

Systems and Workflow

How I work

  • Neovim and terminal-first workflows
  • Unix philosophy and composable tooling
  • Automation-heavy CI/CD and test infrastructure
  • Architecture that optimizes for long-term change

Current stack

RustGoSwiftTypeScriptRuby on RailsPostgreSQLTailwind CSSAWSAzure DevOps

Motorsport

Racing shaped how I think about performance, feedback loops, and execution. I competed professionally in single-seaters and GT machinery, and I still stay active through sim racing and motorsport data work.

2005-2006

Red Bull Junior Team

Selected through the Red Bull Driver Search program.

2008-2009

A1GP Team Ireland

Test and reserve driver through the 2009 title-winning campaign.

2010

Indy Lights

Raced in the Firestone Indy Lights Series.

Today

Sim Racing and Coaching

Active iRacing competitor, motorsport fan, and occasional coach for developing drivers.

Legacy motorsport archive: niallquinn.com

Full racing career timelineExpand

2020

iRacing 12 Hours of Suzuka (Sim Racing)

  • 2nd position for ORLEN Team Targa alongside Robert Kubica, Pablo Araujo, and Marcin Skrzypczak.

2019

GT Cup

  • Raced for Team HARD in the GT Cup finale at Snetterton.
  • 2 races, 1 win, 1 second place.

Digital Motorsports GTE Cup (Sim Racing)

  • Champion.

2016

SEAT Supercup Ireland

  • SEAT Leon Supercopa with family-run Quinn Racing Team.
  • Part season: 2 wins, 8 podiums, 2 poles, 3 fastest laps.

2015

SEAT Supercup Ireland

  • SEAT Leon Supercopa with family-run Quinn Racing Team.
  • Part season: 4 wins, 6 podiums, 1 pole, 1 fastest lap.

2010

Firestone Indy Lights Series

  • 2 races with Palm Beach Indy Racing.
  • Qualified 7th on debut with no prior testing.
  • Firestone Hard Charger Award winner, Grand Prix of Long Beach.
  • P1 in official practice at Barber Motorsports Park (Grand Prix of Alabama).

2009

A1GP - World Cup of Motorsport

  • Test and reserve driver for Team Ireland.

Phoenix Park Races

  • Winner in Formula Libre driving a Reynard 92D F3000.

2008

A1GP - World Cup of Motorsport

  • Test and reserve driver for Team Ireland.

Formula Palmer Audi Autumn Trophy

  • Champion.
  • 6 starts, 2 wins, 4 podiums.

British F3 National Class

  • 3 starts, 1 podium.

Asian F3

  • 4 starts, 3 podiums (two second places), 1 fastest lap.

German F3

  • 1 start as stand-in for VW Motorsport.

2007

Dunlop Motorsport Ireland Young Racing Driver of the Year

  • Winner.

Formula BMW ADAC

  • 2 podiums.
  • 7th overall.

Formula BMW World Final

  • 10th (started P16 due to heat accident).
  • Heat results: P3, P6, DNF.

2006

Formula BMW UK

  • 3rd Rookie Cup.
  • 5 wins in Rookie Cup.

Formula BMW World Final

  • 12th.

Dunlop Motorsport Ireland Young Racing Driver of the Year

  • Runner-up.

2005

Red Bull Driver Search

  • Winner of the worldwide shootout, earning a Red Bull Junior Team contract.

Irish Senior Kart Champion

  • Champion in Formula A class.

Red Bull High King of Karting

  • Winner of the national shootout, qualifying for the Red Bull worldwide shootout.

2003

Irish Junior Kart Champion

  • Champion in JICA class.

All-Ireland Junior Champion

  • Winner of the IRL plate race.

Neil Shanahan Memorial Award

  • Winner.

2000

Irish Cadet Kart Champion

  • Champion in Cadet class.

Irish Grand Prix

  • Winner of the GP plate race.

5 Nations Challenge

  • 3rd place against top drivers in the UK and Ireland.

Inter Nations Challenge

  • Led the Irish national team.

Side Projects

2025 - Present

SafeLoadPass.com

Multi-tenant vehicle inspection SaaS with tenant isolation, pragmatic performance tuning, and reliability-first operations.

Ruby on RailsPostgreSQLSQLiteTailwind CSS

2022 - 2024

Endurostats

Motorsport analytics platform aggregating live and historical race data with interactive analysis workflows.

RailsPlotly.jsHotwireData ingestion pipelines

Selected Racing Media

Niall Quinn in GT Cup competition

2019: GT Cup.

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