Mike Verdone
Engineering Manager at Ableton
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Verdone is an experienced engineering manager and product owner with 18 years in software development, currently helping shape and ship Ableton Live from Berlin. He balances people leadership—ensuring developers have the resources, equitable compensation, and growth opportunities—with hands-on product work, having moved between product ownership and engineering management at Ableton since 2018. His background includes backend contributions to open-source projects like the Python Twitter API, where he implemented reply retrieval and improved POST and follow/leave behaviors, reflecting a pragmatic full-stack mindset. Mike blends agile product discovery with practical engineering chops, still writing code occasionally to stay close to the codebase and keep decisions grounded in technical reality. Trained with a BSc from the University of Calgary, he brings a steady mix of technical depth, product empathy, and operational focus to complex multimedia software.
18 years of coding experience
BSc, BSc at University of Calgary
English, German, French
Github Skills (9)
api10
apidoc10
python10
cli9
command-line9
command-line-interface9
api-design8
version-control7
git7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
python-twitter-tools/twitter
Jan 2009 - Oct 2017
Python Twitter API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:346 commits, 11 PRs, 12 pushes in 8 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Python Twitter API. They added a "replies" action to the command-line tool, enabling users to retrieve replies. Furthermore, they introduced changes related to the handling of POST requests and implemented fixes and improvements for the "follow" and "leave" features. Lastly, they updated the codebase to version 1.0 and made preparations for a future release.
apipythonpython-twittertwitter-apitwitter
sixohsix/tak
Aug 2012 - Jan 2013
Contributions:102 commits in 5 months
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