Tim Hunt
Leading Technical Developer at Moodle Community
Peterborough, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTim Hunt is a seasoned Leading Technical Developer with 19 years of experience building and maintaining Moodle-based learning systems for the Open University. He combines deep back-end expertise in PHP, SQL and web technologies with a long-standing role as maintainer of Moodle's quiz and question bank, triaging and fixing the toughest assessment bugs across the community. Tim spent a formative year at Moodle HQ in Perth where he rewrote large parts of Moodle’s output/themes/blocks for the 2.0 release, evidence of his skill in evolving large open-source platforms. His contributions on GitHub span core Moodle improvements and stabilizing contributed modules such as a questionnaire plugin, often addressing subtle regex, session and context-loading issues. With a PhD in mathematics from Cambridge and a postgraduate diploma in computing, he brings rigorous analytical thinking to test-driven development and complex assessment workflows. Based in Peterborough, he thrives at the intersection of academic needs and open-source engineering, quietly stewarding critical assessment infrastructure used by millions of learners.
19 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate diploma, Computing for Commerce and Industry, Distinction, Postgraduate diploma, Computing for Commerce and Industry, Distinction at The Open UniversityPhD, Low dimensional dynamics: bifurcations of cantori and realisations of uniform hyperbolicity, PhD, Low dimensional dynamics: bifurcations of cantori and realisations of uniform hyperbolicity at University of Cambridge
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regular-expression10
debug10
php10
moodle10
back-end-development10
javascript9
version-control9
css9
git9
performance-optimization8
database-design7
debugging6
sql6
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Github contributions (5)
moodle/moodle
Oct 2009 - Jan 2023
Moodle - the world's open source learning platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3881 commits, 6 comments in 13 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily worked on improvements to the Moodle's core and related functionality. The user contributed to the styling of quizzes, the fixing of buttons in the "requires grading" state, fixing a bug in the badge capability check, handling multi-choice questions, improving the performance of the course context loader, resolving issues in the quiz report, adding a feature to prevent session timeouts, and addressing other minor issues. They implemented changes in a variety of files including PHP, CSS and Javascript.
usabilitylearning-management-systemlearning-platformmhealthportal
PoetOS/moodle-mod_questionnaire
Oct 2014 - Apr 2015
Questionnaire module for Moodle - Contributed module
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 5 PRs, 5 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Tim's commits primarily focused on fixing issues and improving the codebase of a Moodle questionnaire module. They addressed problems related to regular expression usage, specifically `preg_quote` and other `preg_replace` functions. Further contributions involved fixing errors stemming from orphaned surveys and removing hard-coded prefixes, ensuring the module's stability and maintainability within the Moodle environment.
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