Stuart King
CEO at Fierce Ventures
Townsville, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolStuart King is a seasoned technology founder and CEO with 13 years of experience designing and building products across Australia and the San Francisco Bay Area. He has repeatedly moved between hands-on engineering and executive leadership roles—founding startups, serving as CTO, and leading Fierce Ventures since 2014. His background spans software engineering at scale (Sky, Monitise) through to data science work for local government and chairing Smart Precinct NQ, demonstrating fluency from code to civic impact. As a founding engineer at Onton he brought startup-era product and platform experience to a Bay Area team, while maintaining a base in Townsville that informs his regional innovation focus. Stuart combines commercial training in management and international business with a technical diploma in programming, a mix that helps him translate strategy into shipped products. Offbeat personal notes—like a self-deprecating Github bio—hint at a down-to-earth leader who prefers building useful things over showmanship.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) Management Employment Relations and International Business, Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) Management Employment Relations and International Business at University of AucklandAdvanced Diploma Business Systems Programming, Advanced Diploma Business Systems Programming at Spherion Institute of Technology
English, Afrikaans
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (77)
pdfium10
graphicsmagick9
nifti9
image-processing9
heic9
webp9
tiff9
pdf9
png9
imagemagick9
low-memory9
jpeg9
openexr9
computer-vision8
openslide8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
stuartrexking/emacs.d
Jan 2017 - Mar 2022
Contributions:38 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
stuartrexking/dotfiles
Aug 2013 - Jun 2019
Contributions:130 commits, 115 pushes in 5 years 10 months
dotfilesvimzsh
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