Michael Verdi
Founder at Okay, maybe...
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Verdi is a product design leader and founder with 14 years of experience turning cross-disciplinary expertise—from naval nuclear training to theater and teaching—into measurable product impact. He led multi-year efforts at Mozilla that drove 4% user growth, a 10% revenue increase, and millions in additional organic downloads by redesigning search, onboarding, and retention flows. Michael combines hands-on design (Figma, prototyping, usability testing) with strategic initiatives like AI integration and search marketing to diversify revenue and reduce platform risk. He also builds tools and content—authoring localization tooling used by tens of millions monthly and improving learning materials in prominent open-source curriculum repositories. Based in Dallas, he now channels that blend of technical rigor and creative storytelling into his startup work on minimalist apps, VR video, and immersive film.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering at Nuclear Power School - Naval Nuclear Power Training Command (NNPTC)Education, Education at Texas State UniversityFine/Studio Arts General, Fine/Studio Arts General at San Antonio College
English
Github Skills (6)
user-manual10
learn-ruby-on-rails10
basics10
documentation10
javascript4
ruby4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
turingschool/curriculum
Jan 2012 - Jul 2012
Turing's main repository of tutorials and projects
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:54 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the documentation and instructional content within the repository. Their commits focused on correcting typos, refining wording, and adding clarifying notes to the tutorials. Notably, the user added reminders regarding the installation of external dependencies. These edits improved the clarity and usability of the learning materials.
turing
verdi327/parallel_test_tutorial
Jun 2013 - Dec 2013
Contributions:15 commits in 6 months
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