Matthias Opitz
PHP Developer at UCL
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthias Opitz is a seasoned PHP developer based in London with over eight years of recent hands-on experience building and maintaining web and e-learning systems for leading universities and research institutions. His career spans back to the early web era and a prior specialty in Apple-based electronic publishing, giving him rare depth in content workflows, CMS platforms and frontend/backend integration. He routinely works with PHP, JavaScript, SQL and Git, and has applied agile practices across projects at UCL, Queen Mary, LSE and Oxford. Comfortable moving between legacy systems and modern stacks, he excels at extending platforms like Moodle and crafting internal database-driven applications. Multilingual, globe-trotting and curious, he brings a civilised balance of technical rigor and real-world practicality—still keen to learn after decades in the field. A former head of publishing technology, he uniquely combines editorial tooling insight with robust software engineering.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Abitur, History, German, Physics, Chemistry, Abitur, History, German, Physics, Chemistry at Ludwig-Meyn-Schule, Uetersenumm... none., Physics, Philosophy, umm... none., Physics, Philosophy at Universität Hamburg
German, English, French, Italian
Github Skills (43)
moodle10
learning-management-system10
microsoft-graph-api10
h5p9
azure-active-directory9
accessibility9
integrations9
office3659
lms9
to-do9
forum8
zoom-meeting8
microsoft7
collapsable7
s3-bucket6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
opitz/moodle-report_myfeedback
Dec 2022 - Oct 2025
A Moodle Report that shows all user feedback on one page.
Contributions:95 pushes, 13 branches in 2 years 10 months
user-feedbackreportfeedbackone-pagemoodle
opitz/moodle-block_modlib
Jul 2019 - Nov 2023
Contributions:102 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 5 months
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