Nigel Stewart
Embedded Software Engineer at Biamp
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolNigel Stewart is an embedded software engineer with 22 years of C++ and systems experience, specialising in high-performance data processing, concurrency and 3D graphics. He has shipped production embedded Linux and networking systems and worked on GPU and rendering toolchains at Nvidia and in technical applications for remote sensing and streaming. Nigel is a pragmatic architect who blends deep language expertise (C++11–20, Python) with hands-on performance tuning, bug triage and automation across build/test/release pipelines. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved cross-platform graphics projects (FreeGLUT, GLEW, apitrace) and added precision and sensor input support to the widely used fluent-bit logging project. He holds advanced computer graphics training (PhD-level work at RMIT) and often focuses on subtle portability and type-safety fixes that prevent platform-specific failures.
22 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Graphics, PhD Computer Graphics at RMIT University
Japanese
Github Skills (33)
c-language10
data-collection10
compiler-errors10
multiplatform10
windows10
linux10
build-system10
cross-platform10
c1110
collector10
c1710
directives10
direct3d10
warnings10
compiler10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
nigels-com/glew
Jan 2011 - Apr 2022
The OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 7 reviews, 528 commits in 11 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Nigel primarily worked on the OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library (GLEW), a library for OpenGL extension handling. Their contributions focused on fixing compiler warnings, addressing build paths for specific operating systems (CentOS), and fixing function declarations and prototypes, including handling of different calling conventions and symbol visibility across various compilers (gcc, SunPro). The user also added support for EGL (Embedded Graphics Library) to the project.
openglwranglerglewcwgl
jarro2783/cxxopts
Mar 2023 - Dec 2025
Lightweight C++ command line option parser
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 6 PRs, 16 comments in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Nigel contributed to the cxxopts library by implementing and extending its core functionality. Their work included fixing exception messages, maintaining group order, and adding support for the `as_optional` functionality. They also added support for the `std::filesystem::path` type within the library. Further, they also refined the test coverage and included features to correctly handle optional values.
command-linecppoption-parserc-plus-pluspositional-arguments
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