Julian Stirling
Chief Executive at OpenFlexure
Bath, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJulian Stirling is a physicist-turned-engineer and CEO with 11+ years building precision scientific instruments and open-source hardware for global impact. He has led projects from rebuilding the NIST milligram-level force standard to co-designing the OpenFlexure Microscope—a 3D-printable, motorised lab microscope now used in over 50 countries and being trialled for malaria diagnostics and local production in Tanzania. As a project maintainer and back-end contributor to notable open-source tools, he blends hands-on hardware design, firmware/software upgrades, and documentation-driven community building. His background includes precision metrology at NIST and gravity measurements at the University of Maryland, and he even maintains a 200-year-old Grade I listed waterwheel, illustrating a practical knack for long-lived mechanical systems. Based in Bath, UK, he combines academic rigour with entrepreneurial experience in distributed manufacturing and pragmatic solutions for resource-constrained settings.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at University of Nottingham
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Github Skills (9)
file-handling10
data-export10
exports10
python10
exporter10
html9
command-line-interface8
front-end-development8
gtk6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
giuspen/cherrytree
Jun 2015 - Aug 2015
cherrytree
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 2 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Julian primarily focused on enhancing the HTML export functionality of the cherrytree application. Their contributions include the addition of embedded file support, implementing command-line HTML output, and refining the HTML folder naming convention. They also addressed issues related to D-Bus integration for command-line exports, and enhanced HTML page presentation by including node titles, and fixing unclosed tags.
richtexthighlightingsyntax-highlighting
julianstirling/openscad_docsgen
Apr 2021 - Jan 2025
A processor for generating Mardown code documentation from comments in OpenSCAD source files.
Contributions:9 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 9 months
mardownopenscadcode-documentationcommentssource-files
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