Summary
Robert Spencer is a Chief Scientist and founder with over two decades of hands-on experience experimenting with Virtual Reality across Australia and the US, and 11 years of formal industry experience guiding product and company strategy. Since founding Stirling Labs in 2017 he has developed world-leading VR tools that help engineers, architects and designers visualize and interrogate complex marine and offshore structures, commercialized through a partnership with Danish naval architects Knud E. Hansen. His background spans entrepreneurial leadership roles from creative director to CEO and adjunct academia, giving him a rare blend of technical R&D, product commercialization and business development skills. Based in Greater Perth, he is particularly skilled at translating spatial, domain-specific engineering problems into immersive, practical VR solutions that accelerate design understanding and decision-making.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer