Summary
Brandon Muramatsu is a senior education-technology leader with 14 years at MIT and over three decades of involvement in open education, designing and scaling multimillion-dollar learning initiatives across nine countries. He specializes in product and project management for digital credentials, open-courseware, and curriculum technologies, having led projects from K-12 scale deployments in India to a STEAM academy in Belize. At MIT he managed commercial partnerships and licensing that generated significant revenue while stewarding open-source efforts like the Learner Credential Wallet. Known for combining technical fluency with strategic negotiation, he has secured and administered multi-year grants and fee-for-service agreements with international universities and consortia. Brandon’s background in mechanical engineering (UC Berkeley) and early work building national STEM digital libraries gives him a rare blend of systems thinking and practical implementation experience. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic connector who delivers complex, multi-partner programs by influencing across institutional boundaries.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering, Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley