Roy White
Head Of Academy at Aga Khan Academy Maputo
Maputo, Mozambique
Summary
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SeniorRoy White is an educational leader and Head of Academy with 12 years of senior international experience building distinctive, arts-focused IB schools and shaping whole-school vision across Europe, Asia and Africa. He combines a practitioner’s love of the arts with strategic school leadership—centering creativity, wellbeing and future-ready mindsets—to help students “think like artists” while preparing them for a technology-driven world. Roy has led startups and established institutions alike, serving as Head of School, Executive Principal and consultant, and he enjoys translating research into classroom practice and staff development. Unusually for a school leader, he also contributes to open-source school management software (Gibbon), applying back-end PHP fixes to behaviour and attendance modules—an indicator of his hands-on problem-solving and systems-minded approach. Based in Maputo, he is known for creating supportive cultures that push students and staff to exceed expectations and for seeking collaborative, internationally minded partners.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (6)
php10
backend10
object-oriented-programming10
back-end-development10
mysql10
database-design9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
GibbonEdu/core
Sep 2013 - Sep 2022
Gibbon is a flexible, open source school management platform designed to make life better for teachers, students, parents and leaders.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 50 reviews, 1901 commits in 9 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Roy implemented new features and performed bug fixes related to the behavior module. This involved making post-OOification tweaks to the pattern finder, including changes to the behaviour_pattern.php and behaviour_manage_add.php files, indicating work with the system's core logic and data flow. Additional commits show work with the attendance module, including features such as the ability to self-register as Absent when offsite and fixing issues. The user's focus lies in the PHP back-end development, specifically in modules related to behavior and attendance functionality.
pythondjangophpleaderslife
GibbonEdu/module-queryBuilder
Aug 2015 - Feb 2025
A Gibbon module to provide, add, edit and run SQL statements, and export the results to Excel.
Contributions:52 releases, 3 reviews, 17 PRs in 9 years 8 months
exportsql-statementssqlstatementsvba
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