Guillermo Arias
Software Developer at Catalyst IT Canada | Moodle Certified Partner
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolGuillermo Arias is a software developer with over a decade of experience and eight years in professional engineering roles, currently building back-end solutions at Catalyst IT Canada. He brings deep Moodle expertise, contributing practical testing and email configuration improvements to the widely used open-source Moodle platform and adding features like question export and categorization. His background blends hands-on PHP development with e-learning product and project management from roles at universities and consultancy shops across Canada and Australia. With an MBA and a systems engineering foundation, he bridges technical implementation and educational technology strategy, often improving developer and admin workflows that support large-scale learning deployments. An uncommon strength is his combination of academic teaching experience and production-grade open-source contributions, which helps him translate user needs into robust, maintainable code.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master in Business Administration, Master in Business Administration at Universidad ICESIDiplôme Universitaire de Langue et de Culture Françaises, Langue et de Culture Françaises, B1, Diplôme Universitaire de Langue et de Culture Françaises, Langue et de Culture Françaises, B1 at Université catholique de Lyon
Spanish, English, French
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Github Skills (6)
php10
moodle10
web-development10
mysql9
database-design8
api-design7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
moodle/moodle
May 2021 - Aug 2021
Moodle - the world's open source learning platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Guillermo primarily contributed to improving the testing configuration for outgoing emails within the Moodle platform. Their work involved modifying the admin page to include timestamps in the subject and message body, adding an option to specify a "from" email address, and validating the input. These changes enhance the testing process by providing more informative feedback and improving the usability of the email configuration interface. The user also implemented code changes to allow for exporting questions, and adding categories to the questions.
usabilitylearning-management-systemlearning-platformmhealthportal
guillogo/moodle
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Moodle - the world's open source learning platform
Contributions:1 PR, 44 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 9 months
learning-platformjavascriptweb-development-toolslmsmoodle
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