Sam Hemelryk
Chief Technology Officer at Totara
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Hemelryk is a seasoned technology leader and current CTO at Totara with 14 years of hands-on development and architecture experience, focused on delivering enterprise open-source learning products. He progressed through engineering and product leadership roles at Totara and Moodle, blending deep technical practice with strategic oversight of delivery, ops, and technical leadership teams. Sam still codes regularly and enjoys rolling up his sleeves for architectural work, which helps him stay close to the systems his teams build. He’s passionate about nurturing high-performing teams and designing software that improves real-world learning environments, and he’s proud of steering Totara through turbulent times while keeping people front and center. Based in Wellington, New Zealand, he pairs a pragmatic development background with a track record of evolving open-source platforms at scale. An uncommon strength is his sustained developer practice as a CTO, ensuring decisions remain both strategic and implementation-aware.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma in Information and Communications Technology (Level 6) with Merit, Diploma in Information and Communications Technology (Level 6) with Merit at Nelson Marlborough Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Information and Communication Technologies, Bachelor of Information and Communication Technologies at Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology
Github Skills (20)
moodle10
learning-management-system10
elearning10
open-source10
lms10
mhealth10
portal10
edtech10
usability10
nette2
testing2
php-cs-fixer2
php2
windows1
machine-learning1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
samhemelryk/kaltura_plugin_suite
Jul 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
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