Kristina Hoeppner
Mahara Project Lead, Product Manager, And Community Facilitator
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolKristina Hoeppner is an experienced product and community leader with 14+ years specialising in Mahara open-source e-portfolio systems, currently shaping strategy and product roadmaps at Catalyst IT from Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. As Mahara Project Lead she combines product management, stakeholder and partner programme oversight, and hands-on community facilitation—running training, editing the user manual, and hosting the Create. Share. Engage. podcast. Her background in learning technology and university-level digital media projects gives her a rare mix of educational practice, technical liaison, and project budgeting skills. A frequent conference speaker and long-time Mahara contributor, she excels at translating classroom needs into pragmatic open-source features and integrations. Notably, she has sustained a decade-long relationship with Mahara development and community support, bridging academic users and developers to keep the platform relevant and usable.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
American Cultural Studies, Native American Studies, African American Studies, American Cultural Studies, Native American Studies, African American Studies at University of California, DavisM.A., American Cultural Studies, German as Foreign Language, Political Science, M.A., American Cultural Studies, German as Foreign Language, Political Science at Technische Universität Dresden
German, English, French
Github Skills (84)
phonegap10
logos10
branding10
iconic10
twitter10
git-repository10
fonts10
mahara10
font-awesome10
svg-font10
woff10
google-fonts10
css10
svg9
cordova9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
anitsirk/git-achievements
Feb 2015 - Aug 2020
Contributions:42 pushes in 5 years 7 months
catalyst/myportfolio-school-docs
Feb 2015 - Mar 2020
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
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