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Austin, Texas · Since 2003

Custom Software

Developing custom applications for over twenty-three years: concept and design, integration, build, maintenance and support.

Services

Custom Software Development

Applications built around how your business actually works. We take on the whole path — architecture, build, integration with the systems you already run, and the long-term maintenance most shops hand back to you.

Cloud Infrastructure

The environments your applications live in, designed and operated properly. Provisioning, deployment pipelines, monitoring, backup and recovery, and the security and compliance work that comes with them.

Managed SaaS Operations

Day-to-day ownership of the platforms your business runs on. Licensing, configuration, integration between tools, user access and audit — and one point of accountability when something breaks.

History

Through every version of the internet.

  1. 1995–2002

    Before Stella

    Before founding Stella, James Hudson and Andy Sharp built integration systems and early web applications at Ernst & Young, BP, British Telecom, and Reebok — first in London, then Austin.

    EDI · C++ · HTML · VBScript · ASP · SQL Server · Flash

  2. 2003

    Stella International is formed

    A custom development shop building static sites and database-driven systems for hospitals, insurance, government, and private sector clients.

    PHP/MySQL · ASP/.NET · SQL Server

  3. 2005–2006

    Working distributed

    Graphic designers in Austin and Dallas in 2005, then the first overseas development teams a year later. Stella has worked with distributed teams ever since.

  4. 2008

    From projects to platforms

    Custom development evolves into framework building and integration work with accounting systems, alongside CRM development. Stella begins managing physical servers for clients in an Austin colocation facility.

    .NET/SQL Server · PHP/MySQL · WordPress

  5. 2012

    Product work

    With investment partners, Stella builds what becomes Simplified Lending Solutions, a software platform for real estate banking. Stella still builds and supports the platform today.

    CakePHP · .NET MVC

  6. 2016

    Mobile

    An iPhone application integrated into the Simplified platform, handling real estate financial transactions.

    iOS · .NET MVC

  7. 2020

    Scale and compliance

    A statewide platform rebuilt from a single-tenant application into a multi-tenant system serving government agencies. Compliance automation with centralized audit and oversight, and HIPAA-protected healthcare systems.

    ASP.NET MVC Core · SAML · SSAE16 / SOC reporting

  8. 2023

    AI practice

    A dedicated AI department, building OCR, document processing at scale, and logistics tooling into client systems. AI tooling rolled out across the whole development team — with experienced engineers directing the work.

    OCR · Document processing · Applied AI

Our team

Who we are

We have managed distributed teams since 2006 — in India and Pakistan, and across Europe and the UK. Today our development team is in Dhaka, Bangladesh: 25 engineers full time, with a partner bench of several hundred when a project needs to scale quickly. Ownership and client leadership are in Austin, Texas.

Many of our clients have been with us for over a decade.

Contact us

Tell us what you are building or what needs taking over. We read every message and reply ourselves.

Office
Stella International, Inc.
1924 Emma Long Street
Austin, Texas 78723
Text or SMS
(512) 636-2780
Email
sales@stellainternational.com

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