Stuart Marsden
Business Owner at HubbyCraft Studio
Greater Preston Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolStuart Marsden is a Chartered Engineer and PhD-trained bio-engineer turned product leader and entrepreneur, with over a decade delivering assistive technology and medical devices that genuinely meet user needs. He combines hands-on technical experience—from biomechanical research and clinical science to software contributions such as improving Kivy’s clipboard support on Linux—with product leadership roles at Texthelp and Claro overseeing accessibility-focused products. Known for listening to users and turning complex clinical and regulatory constraints into practical solutions, he has led innovation pathways within the NHS and new product development in industry. Now running his own venture, he remains committed to levelling the playing field by empowering overlooked users and turning anxiety and overwhelm into manageable, creative outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MEng, Mechanical Engineering, 1st Class (Honours), MEng, Mechanical Engineering, 1st Class (Honours) at Newcastle UniversityMSc, Medical Physics, MSc, Medical Physics at University of LeedsPhD, Biomechanical modelling and musculoskeletal mechanics, PhD, Biomechanical modelling and musculoskeletal mechanics at University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Github Skills (9)
linux10
clipboard10
python10
kivy10
ui-design9
macos4
ios4
windows4
android4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kivy/kivy
Mar 2015 - Jun 2015
Open source UI framework written in Python, running on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and iOS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 2 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Stuart primarily contributed to the Kivy framework's clipboard functionality. Their work focused on integrating and improving clipboard support on Linux systems by adding and refining the use of `xsel`. They fixed issues related to retrieving clipboard data and expanded the clipboard feature with more robust support for copy-paste interactions between applications. Furthermore, they improved control selection behavior on Linux.
pythonlinux-windowswindowsui-frameworklinux
stuartmarsden/dockerCoreEmu
Sep 2014 - Oct 2015
Contributions:3 releases, 7 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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