Matthew Hilton
E-learning Developer at Catalyst IT Australia | E-learning Technology Services
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolMatthew Hilton is an E-learning Developer with a decade of hands-on experience building and maintaining PHP-based LMS platforms like Moodle and Totara, currently contributing backend improvements to Moodle’s core backup, restore and competency features. He pairs that niche LMS expertise with full-stack web skills—React, Svelte, Node.js—and growing DevOps fluency in Docker, CI/CD and major cloud providers (AWS/Azure/GCP). At Catalyst IT he focuses on reliable, production-ready learning systems, bringing an eye for robustness evidenced by his work on asynchronous tasks and override validation in Moodle. Outside work he explores blockchain, Raspberry Pi home automation, robotics and 3D printing, reflecting a practical tinkerer’s approach to emerging tech. Based in Queensland, Australia, he combines academic training in computer science with customer-facing, operational experience from early roles that sharpen his attention to usability and maintainability.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Information Technology, Computer Science, Bachelor of Information Technology, Computer Science at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
Github Skills (7)
php10
moodle-api10
learning-management-system10
mysql10
webservice9
database-management9
testing8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
moodle/moodle
Dec 2021 - Oct 2022
Moodle - the world's open source learning platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the back-end of the Moodle platform, focusing on enhancements to the backup and restore processes. Their work includes fixing user ID issues, adding backup IDs to logging, and improving asynchronous task handling. Additionally, the user implemented changes related to course module competency settings, specifically the override grade functionality. They made updates to ensure module completion correctly reflects the competency grade, incorporating validation for the override data, and creating the override manager class.
usabilitylearning-management-systemlearning-platformmhealthportal
matthewhilton/moodle
Dec 2021 - Mar 2025
Moodle - the world's open source learning platform
Contributions:257 pushes, 39 branches in 3 years 3 months
moodlelearning-platform
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