Educator-Led Engineering

Software that works in the real world, not just in demos.

I design and ship systems informed by school leadership, operational pressure, and a privacy-first approach to architecture.

Matt Hurley mark
Education systems Hardware tools Privacy-first delivery

Operating Principles

11+ years

Education leadership shaping design and delivery decisions

Privacy-first

Governance-aware systems with no default tracking

Built to last

Clear trade-offs, iterative releases, and maintainable codebases

What You Will Find Here

Featured Projects

Current work spans education, remote access, hardware control, network diagnostics, and media automation.

STARS

Student Tracking and Recording System

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A pastoral care platform built for school operations with role-based access, automated workflows, and complete audit visibility.

Azure Auth PB4L Workflow Audit Trails

BrightBound Adventures

Offline-first educational platform for children

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Curriculum-aligned literacy and numeracy experiences designed for classrooms and homes where reliable internet is not guaranteed.

Flutter Cross Platform No Tracking

OmenCore

v3.4.0 hardware control center for HP OMEN and Victus laptops

Dive Deeper

Now updated to v3.4.0 with fan-curve correctness fixes, safer defaults, improved update reliability, and broader model support.

v3.4.0 Fan Safety Released Apr 2026

RigMateAU

Australian rig planning and practical field setup toolkit

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A straightforward planning and deployment companion focused on making rig setup, gear choices, and on-site workflows easier to execute.

Live Web Toolkit Open Source

RelayDesk

Secure remote desktop and access platform

GitHub

A Tauri 2 + Rust monorepo with a unified desktop viewer/host app, web client, and Axum broker for device registry, session management, and WebSocket signaling.

Tauri 2 Rust + Axum In Development

Echoes of the Riftwar

Data-driven 3D action RPG currently in development

GitHub

A Babylon.js-powered action RPG focused on modular systems for combat, quests, inventory, and reactive world progression across a connected frontier.

Babylon.js 3D RPG In Development

PulseLAN

LAN diagnostics and local network toolkit

GitHub

A focused utility for fast local-network diagnostics with clear operator feedback, lightweight workflows, and practical troubleshooting output.

Diagnostics Network Toolkit Open Source

Slimarr

Automated Plex library compression via Usenet

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Scans your Plex library, finds smaller h265/AV1 releases on Usenet, and replaces bloated files overnight — automatically, without ever increasing file size.

Python + FastAPI Plex + SABnzbd *arr Ecosystem

Live Platform

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