Xander Moffatt
Staff Software Engineer at Instructure
Provo, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolXander Moffatt is a Staff Software Engineer with nine years of experience building backend services and platform tooling, currently helping Canvas scale and stay secure at Instructure. He designs and operates high-throughput systems that deliver millions of events daily and has a track record of shipping production features—from LTI integrations in the open-source Canvas LMS to a widely used resize feature in Microsoft Whiteboard. A pragmatic engineer and team enabler, he invests in documentation and developer tooling that reduces toil and accelerates delivery. His background spans DevOps, distributed services on AWS (Kinesis/S3), and full-stack work dating back to university projects, and he brings a consistent “leave it better than you found it” mentality. Outside tech he’s an avid reader, former BYU Men’s Chorus member, and once spent a semester teaching English in Russia—experience that surfaces in his collaborative, cross-cultural approach to problem solving.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Brigham Young University
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Github Skills (12)
activerecord10
lti10
api10
postgresql10
interoperability10
interop10
apidoc10
ruby10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
api-rest9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
instructure/canvas-lms
May 2017 - Jan 2023
The open LMS by Instructure, Inc.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:544 commits, 7 comments in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Xander primarily contributed to the Canvas LMS backend, focusing on enhancements to the LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability) integration. Their commits included the addition and modification of database columns, the creation of LTI-related models, and the modification of existing LTI APIs. The majority of the work involved implementing the LTI platform storage specification, which allows for the transfer and storage of data within Canvas, specifically in relation to assignments and resource links.
open-lmsinstructurecanvas-lmslmsinc
xandroxygen/lti_1p1_test_tool
Mar 2022 - Mar 2024
Contributions:5 PRs, 38 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 1 month
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