📍 Malta ↔ Carlisle, UK | 🎓 Educator | 🛠️ Builder | 🐧 Open-Source Enthusiast
I build things, break things, and teach others to do the same. 20+ years of code, classrooms, and open source — always with a laugh.
Head of Technology @ ICE Campus · AWS Authorised Instructor · Published Researcher
- 💬 Loft (repo) — Desktop integration for WhatsApp, Messenger, Slack & Telegram on Linux — voice/video calling, tray icons, badge counts
- 📦 FriendlyHub (repo) — Flatpak app store & repository manager for Linux
- 🤝 Friendly Manifesto (repo) — A set of principles for building friendly open-source communities
- 🍎 iCloudBridge (repo) — Sync Apple Notes, Reminders, Photos & Passwords with Nextcloud, Bitwarden & more
- 📋 ClusterCut (repo) — Cross-device clipboard sync without the cloud — Windows, macOS & Linux on your local network
- 🔤 spelling.mt (repo) — Online Maltese spell checker
- 🔔 Status Tray (repo) — Better system tray icons for GNOME with per-app customisation
- 🖥️ WebFruitOS — Responsive website template mimicking a certain fruit-themed OS
- 📖 WordLeech — Extract words from documents to grow the Maltese spell checker dictionary
- 🇲🇹 Maltese Spelling Dictionary (repo) — Open-source spell checking for the Maltese language across all major platforms
- Teach — AI, Python, AWS, DevOps, and full-stack web development to the next generation of developers
- Build — Desktop, mobile and web tools that are powerful, but also friendly and inclusive
- Champion Maltese — Building open-source language tools so Maltese thrives in the digital age
- Write & publish — Academic papers on VR-based learning, cross-platform development, and mobile language learning
- 2019 — Contemporary Technologies and Methods for Cross-Platform Application Development — J. Comput. Theor. Nanosci.
- 2017 — A Framework for Measuring VR-Based Instruction Effectiveness — INTED, Valencia
- 2016 — Cross-Platform Development Frameworks — ICCCM
- 2016 — Mobile Language Learning — ICCCM
A few more things about me
- 🎓 M.Sc. in ICT with Computer Information Systems (University of Malta) — dissertation on VR-based learning
- 🏆 IADCS Europe & Rest of World High Achiever Award
- 🇲🇹 Maltese, living in the UK — on a mission to keep Maltese alive in the digital world
- 📺 Former YouTube tech channel operator
- ☕ Powered by curiosity, coffee, and the occasional terrible pun