Andrew Hancox
Fractional CTO at Open Source Learning
Hove, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndrew Hancox is a seasoned Fractional CTO and founder with 11+ years of experience designing and delivering large-scale learning management systems, currently advising mid-market clients through Freeman Clarke while running Open Source Learning. He combines hands-on back-end engineering (notably contributions to Moodle and the popular Iomad fork) with strategic leadership—helping organisations from UK government bodies to global enterprises deploy and scale Moodle-based LMS, e-commerce and reporting tools. His background spans product and delivery leadership at media and e-learning companies, delivering multi-tenant SaaS, data warehousing and high-throughput web platforms. Comfortable moving between code, architecture and commercial decision-making, he has a track record of rescuing troubled projects and embedding engineering discipline across teams. Unusually for a CTO, he remains an active open-source contributor to core Moodle modules, improving import/export, tagging and upgrade paths that benefit thousands of deployments. He holds postgraduate technology management training and an MSc in theoretical physics, reflecting a rigorous, analytical approach to technology strategy.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
PGCert, Technology Management, PGCert, Technology Management at The Open UniversityBSc, Physics, BSc, Physics at University of ExeterCCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate), Networking, CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate), Networking at Greensward AcademyMSc, Theoretical Physics, MSc, Theoretical Physics at University of SussexCardinal Newman School
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moodle10
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Github contributions (5)
moodle/moodle
Mar 2015 - Oct 2018
Moodle - the world's open source learning platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:79 commits in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on enhancing the `mod_data` module, refactoring the import functionality to utilize the `update_content` function within the `mod_data` module. The user's contributions also included implementing tagging features for the `mod_glossary`, `mod_forum`, and `mod_book` modules, improving data retrieval. Furthermore, the user made changes to the export functionality and fixed several bugs related to search capabilities and the handling of user details.
moodle
iomad/iomad
May 2019 - Jun 2019
Iomad
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 14 PRs, 4 comments in 23 days
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the Iomad system. Their work included fixing typos, correcting issues with company capabilities, addressing problems with email templates, and resolving issues with the company selector. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the database upgrade process.
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