David Thompson
Senior Developer at Catalyst IT Limited
Canterbury, New Zealand
Summary
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SeniorDavid Thompson is a Senior Developer and PhD-trained software engineer based in Canterbury, New Zealand, who bridges academic research and commercial product delivery across a decade of experience. He combines web and CMS expertise (Django, Moodle/Tōtara, Drupal) with a strong background in educational technology, learning analytics, and computer vision-driven interaction design. Currently seconded as a senior developer/solution architect building flexible student enrolment systems, he focuses on API integration, ethical data stewardship, and extracting pedagogical insight from LMS platforms rather than treating them as black boxes. His past work spans multi-touch interfaces, game and narrative design for learning, and scalable production systems, and many contributions live under client repositories rather than public GitHub, reflecting a pragmatic, client-focused portfolio.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
English, German, Japanese
Github Skills (80)
camelcase10
textbook10
moodle10
snapcraft10
kanban10
portal10
docker-image10
jstree10
javascript9
lms9
touchscreen9
casperjs9
netsuite9
transifex9
elearning9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
DrCuriosity/moodle-mod_ratingallocate
Jun 2021 - Sep 2021
:pray: "Fair allocation" moodle activity
Contributions:3 PRs, 76 pushes, 6 branches in 3 months
neumorphismallocationdriftmoodlemoodle-activity
kayakr/parliament.nz
Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 12 pushes in 1 day
scraperparliamentscraping
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