Heena Agheda
Team Lead at Catalyst IT Australia | E-learning Technology Services
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolHeena Agheda is a seasoned software leader and team lead based in Sydney with 10 years of experience delivering scalable PHP and Laravel applications across enterprise and mid-market environments. She has driven large migrations from legacy Zend to modern Laravel architectures, decoupled monoliths into APIs, and integrated WordPress, React and third-party services to enable responsive, cross-platform experiences. Known for pragmatic cost optimization—migrating messaging to AWS SNS, automating RDS schedules, and replacing costly tools with DocuSign—she balances engineering rigor with operational savings. Her background includes technical leadership in real estate and retail tech, building business-critical automation like dynamic pay-rate engines and automated payment verifications that removed manual bottlenecks. A former web development trainer, she brings strong mentorship and documentation practices that improve onboarding and team quality. Outside of work she highlights the personal roles of mum and wife, reflecting a grounded approach to leadership and time management.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
ICA50611 Diploma of Website Development, Website Development, ICA50611 Diploma of Website Development, Website Development at Evocca collegeM.Sc.(I.T.), Information Technology, M.Sc.(I.T.), Information Technology at South Gujarat UniversityLNB Dalia high school
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Github Skills (116)
moodle10
simplesamlphp10
edtech10
lms10
openam10
single-sign-on10
portal10
learning-management-system10
elearning10
identity-provider10
idp10
mhealth10
usability10
saml9
pam9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hdagheda/moodle
Feb 2020 - Jul 2022
Moodle - the world's open source learning platform
Contributions:2 PRs, 77 pushes, 31 branches in 2 years 5 months
moodlelearning-platformmachine-learningedtech
hdagheda/smartmaid
May 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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