Software engineer & builder of stuff
Since the early web

A modern home for a long-running digital life.

I am Stuart Angel. I have spent decades building software across web, desktop, internal systems, specialist platforms, and independent experiments. This is my place on the web for work, projects, interests, and the parts of life that never fit neatly into a resume.

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About

I am a software engineer first, but not only that. I am also interested in music, games, electronics, cars, prospecting, outdoor life, and the technical details behind how things actually work.

  • Software engineer with decades of commercial experience
  • Worked across web, desktop, internal systems, and specialist platforms
  • Built for government, enterprise, media, and independent ventures
  • Still interested in side projects, experiments, and strange ideas worth testing
Early years

Learning by building

From old platforms and low-level languages through to the modern web, a lot of my technical background came from making things, breaking them, and understanding the machinery underneath.

Career

Commercial engineering across very different domains

Government, enterprise, publishing, utilities, recruitment, media, and specialist systems all demand different kinds of discipline. I have worked across that spread and value practical, dependable engineering over fashionable noise.

Now

Still building, still paying attention

I still enjoy shipping useful things, exploring side projects, and keeping a place on the web that reflects more than just a list of technologies. AI is becoming a larger part of what I do these days as well, alongside the software, systems, and practical engineering type thing that has always interested me.

Work

The range of work matters as much as the years behind it. Here are a few names from across that history, with a much longer list sitting behind them.

Selected organisations

Part of a broader mix of commercial, public sector, media, legal, utilities, insurance, and specialist engineering work across the years.

  • Department of Justice
  • EnergyAustralia
  • Emergency Services Telecommunications Authority (a.k.a. 000)
  • Insurance Australia Group
  • National Stroke Foundation
  • Supreme Court
  • Victorian Law Reform Commission
  • Yamaha Music Corporation
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This list currently includes 114 entries across publishing, legal, insurance, utilities, councils, media, tourism, government, technology, and independent work.

  • Advanced Media Solutions
  • AMP
  • ANYWebcam.com
  • Apollo Music Group
  • Ashdown-Ingram
  • Ausnet services
  • Austin Group (Beach Crew Clothing)
  • Australian Capital Tourism Corporation Canberra
  • Australian Dairy Herd Improvement Scheme (ADHIS)
  • Aviation Trader Online
  • Baird Publishing
  • Berri Limited
  • Birds Eye
  • Business Channel (State Government)
  • Central Goldfields Council
  • Chiko
  • Cycletorque
  • Department Industry Innovation & Regional Development
  • Department of Justice
  • Department of Premier and Cabinet
  • Department of State Development
  • Department of Treasury and Finance
  • Department Sport and Recreation
  • Ebsworth & Ebsworth Law
  • Edgell
  • Emergency Services Telecommunications Authority (a.k.a. 000)
  • EnergyAustralia
  • EyeMedia Australia
  • Ezlex
  • First Communications
  • Food Industry Training Board
  • Foodservices Australia
  • Food Victoria - (State Government)
  • Four' N Twenty
  • Freehills Legal
  • Garland Cables
  • Gippsland Water Authority
  • GlaxoSmithKline
  • GoAutoMedia
  • Government International Investment Site
  • GPC Asia Pacific
  • Grape Expectations
  • Great Car Rentals
  • Health Insurance Commission
  • Ideas Australia
  • Imageworks
  • Impaq
  • Insurance Australia Group
  • IPA Recruitment
  • IT Warehouse
  • Jan Juc Surf Life Saving Club
  • laanecoorie.com
  • Land Channel
  • Leadership Management Aust
  • Leggos
  • Linfox
  • LINK Recruitment
  • Lonsdale Group Securities
  • Manningham City Council
  • Maroondah City Council
  • Marsh consumer
  • McMillian Publishing
  • Mitchell & Partners
  • Mobile Cities
  • Moorabool Council
  • Motospecs
  • Multimedia Victoria
  • Nanna's Foods
  • National Can Industries Ltd
  • National Serology Reference Laboratory
  • National Stroke Foundation
  • NORMA Group
  • Ombudsman Victoria
  • Pacific Dunlop
  • PC Australia
  • Performance Profiling Aust
  • Pink Soup
  • Platypus Conservancy
  • Precise Background Services
  • RAFT Church
  • Regional Hospitals Network
  • Repco Group Limited
  • Rip Curl
  • Rural City of Wangaratta
  • Sausage Software
  • Scania
  • Sedgwick / Marsh Mclennan Corporate Insurance Group
  • Simplot Corporation
  • Simplot Foodservice
  • Simply Great Meals
  • Singapore Power International
  • Smorgon ARC
  • SNL Superannuation & Employee Benefits
  • Southern Cross Telco
  • Spotless Group Limited
  • Standards Assoc of Australia
  • State Emergency Services
  • State Revenue Office
  • Supreme Court
  • Synergy Solutions Website
  • Texas Utilities (TXU)/Tenix
  • The Natural Source
  • The Sands - Torquay
  • The Windsor Hotel
  • Tintern Schools
  • Trader Systems International
  • Victorian Employers Chamber of Commerce and Industry
  • Victorian Law Reform Commission
  • Wageguard
  • Wangaatta City Council
  • Wangaratta Tourism
  • Xenon Systems
  • Yamaha Music Corporation
  • Z-Tek Computers

Sample Projects

Not everything worth making belongs inside client work. Here are a handful of examples, most of them starting as a curiosity, a practical need, or a technical idea I wanted to chase properly.

YouTube Streamer Chat Poll

A live polling idea for YouTube streamers, built around real-time audience interaction rather than passive chat scroll.

See on YouTube

Voice Activated Macros

A practical tool for triggering actions by voice, originally aimed at making control easier while in virtual reality.

Visit site

S2Analog for Watchy

A custom watch face for the open source Watchy platform, published publicly and linked from the official gallery.

View gallery

JavaScript Billiards

A browser billiards simulation with AI players, written without leaning on prebuilt game engines or image-heavy tricks.

JavaScript Donkey Kong

A reconstruction of the classic platform feel with the girders and movement treated as calculation rather than static artwork.

Try it out

MySQL File System

An old experiment asking whether a virtual hard drive could be modelled through a database-backed storage approach.

See on YouTube

Car Computer

A project built around replacing a car radio with a computer and turning the dashboard into something more capable.

See on YouTube

Fishing Bot Proof of Concept

An OCR and filtering experiment with input simulation, built as a technical exercise rather than a polished product.

See on YouTube

Virtual Pirate Ship

A virtual reality game concept exploring immersion, interaction, and the fun side of technical experimentation.

See on YouTube

Interests

A personal site should feel personal. In my case that includes both software and everything I disappear into when I am not being paid to write it.

Specialisation

Interests are one thing. The work itself is another. These are the areas I keep returning to, either because I am good at them, enjoy them, or have spent enough time in them for patterns to become obvious.

Web applications and custom platforms

From public-facing websites to custom systems and internal tools, I have spent a long time building software that had to be practical, reliable, and fit for purpose.

PHP, JavaScript, MySQL

These have been recurring tools across a lot of my work, whether the job called for fast delivery, bespoke functionality, or long-lived maintainable systems.

Problem solving and performance-minded thinking

I enjoy untangling awkward technical problems, improving efficiency, and working through logic at a level where structure and execution both matter.

Systems, data, and tooling

A lot of the more serious work has involved internal workflows, data-heavy tasks, specialist tools, and the sort of engineering that sits behind the visible interface.

Video, streaming, and media-related work

Parts of my background sit around media, streaming, delivery, and the technical considerations that come with moving rich content through real systems.

AI, experimentation, and practical prototyping

More recently AI has become a bigger part of what I do, alongside the same hands-on habit of building, testing, and seeing where a useful idea can actually go.

Contact

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