Jonathon Fowler
Solution Architect at University of Southern Queensland
Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolJonathon Fowler is a Solution Architect with 21 years of software engineering experience, currently leading architecture and delivery at the University of Southern Queensland. He blends deep back-end expertise in PHP, C/C++ and Java with strong skills in web standards (HTML, CSS, XML/XSL) and Unix-like systems, and has a track record of shipping public web applications and university-grade systems. An active open-source contributor, he has made practical stability and media-playback fixes to the widely used Moodle platform, showing a focus on reliability and real-world interoperability. Based in Toowoomba, he pairs academic training in software engineering with long-term institutional experience, and brings a hands-on, systems-first approach that spans from low-level code to campus-wide solutions.
21 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BITS, Software engineering, BITS, Software engineering at University of Southern Queensland
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Github Skills (7)
php10
moodle10
web-development10
mysql9
http8
apidoc7
api7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
moodle/moodle
Mar 2011 - May 2021
Moodle - the world's open source learning platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:76 commits in 10 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jonathon contributed to the Moodle learning platform by implementing and modifying back-end code. Their work included fixing HTTP error handling for iOS video playback, adding file type restrictions for assignment submissions, and addressing issues related to URL handling and cron job execution. They also made changes to the forum digest functionality to correctly update post read statuses. These changes suggest a focus on improving the core functionality and stability of the Moodle platform.
usabilitylearning-management-systemlearning-platformmhealthportal
jonof/moodle
Mar 2015 - Feb 2025
Contributions:205 pushes, 162 branches in 10 years
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