Marco Morales
Founder at Schema Education
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolMarco Morales is an EdTech founder and product leader with 13 years of experience designing and shipping education software, most notably as an early product and design leader on the Open edX platform and as Head of Product at K-12 startup Stepmojo. He blends hands-on full-stack contributions to widely used open-source projects like the Open edX LMS with strategic product leadership across mobile, authoring, analytics, and teaching-and-learning domains. Marco repeatedly moves between startup building, platform stewardship, and hands-on design work—founding BrightLoop and Schema Education while also teaching UX and entrepreneurship at Olin College for over seven years. He is skilled at turning classroom problems into scalable product solutions, from tools that capture qualitative K–5 student notes to hybrid virtual/in-person learning labs. Less obvious: he pairs product strategy with technical writing and release documentation, having authored release notes and UX-focused code changes that improved global education deployments. Based in San Diego, he focuses now on apprenticeship-style pathways for early PMs and designers while continuing to support the Open edX ecosystem.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science Engineering: Product Design and Development, Bachelors of Science Engineering: Product Design and Development at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
English, Spanish, French
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Github Skills (12)
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javascript9
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
openedx/openedx-platform
Apr 2013 - Oct 2021
The Open edX LMS & Studio, powering education sites around the world!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:24 reviews, 197 commits, 119 PRs in 8 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Marco contributed to the Open edX platform by implementing new features and making styling changes across both front-end and back-end components. Their work included the creation of a courseware preview menu with staff view toggles, updates to discussion forum icons and functionality, and a redesign of the dashboard's styling and course listing layout. Additionally, they added social sharing features and updated copyright information and the LMS footer.
lmsopenedxbackend-service
openedx-unsupported/edx-documentation
Feb 2017 - Oct 2021
[DEPRECATED] documentation for Open edX; please see docs.openedx.org
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:11 reviews, 27 commits, 26 PRs in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Marco primarily contributed to the edx-documentation repository by creating and updating release notes. The commits involved adding summaries of changes, particularly improvements related to LMS, analytics, and mobile applications, to weekly release note documents. Additionally, the user organized the release notes by date and included updates related to website and studio changes.
openedx
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