Stephen Marquard
Software Engineer at University of Cape Town
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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RockstarStephen Marquard is a seasoned software engineer with 20 years of experience based in the Western Cape, South Africa, who blends practical development with education technology insight. He contributes to open-source learning platforms such as Sakai and Opencast and applies that domain knowledge to help institutions adopt and extend digital learning tools. Comfortable across the stack, he brings long-term product stewardship and a pragmatic approach to integrating community-driven software into real-world workflows. His affiliation with CILT at UCT signals a focus on pedagogy-informed technology, making him adept at translating educational needs into maintainable technical solutions.
20 years of coding experience
Github Skills (90)
period10
collaboration10
opencl10
video-processing10
lms10
recording10
tomcat10
camera10
scale10
video-management10
computer-vision10
rating10
sakai10
ffmpeg10
java10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
cilt-uct/Galicaster
Apr 2017 - Apr 2019
The Galicaster Project is an open initiative to provide flexible, state-of-the-art solutions for recording educational multimedia contents like lectures and conferences
Contributions:23 pushes, 3 comments in 2 years
artbrain-computer-interfacecommunicationsinitiativestate-of-the-art
cilt-uct/Brightspace-migrate-from-sakai
May 2023 - Mar 2025
Set of scripts that run the appropriate workflows to take the sites indicated by the "Migrate to Brightspace" [LTI : tsugi-migrate-to-brightspace] tool and import it into Brightspace.
Contributions:36 reviews, 35 PRs, 226 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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