Philipp Schmidt
VP Technology Innovation
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilipp Schmidt is a seasoned technology and education leader with 14 years of experience building programs and products that expand access to learning at scale. As VP Technology Innovation at Axim Collaborative and former Director of Digital Learning at the MIT Media Lab, he builds partnerships, funds market-ready edtech, and pilots generative AI tools that tangibly improve learner outcomes—especially for community colleges and broad-access institutions. He founded Peer2Peer University and launched OpenCourseWare initiatives in Africa, demonstrating a long-standing commitment to open education and scalable, community-driven learning models. Philipp blends hands-on program design with strategic technology stewardship, guiding teams of designers, engineers, and researchers from prototype to deployment. Less obvious: his career traces back through research on global knowledge ecosystems (including a major Wikipedia contributor study) and early-stage tech ventures, giving him rare depth across policy, product, and operational execution.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at MIT Sloan School of ManagementBSc Computer Science and Media, BSc Computer Science and Media at Hochschule Furtwangen
German, French, English, Spanish
Github Skills (26)
jekyll6
react5
nodejs5
javascript4
django3
simultaneous3
large-scale3
nextjs2
machine-learning2
watson2
kotlin2
google-hangouts2
gatsby2
android-app2
scale2
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
1l2p/1l2p.github.com
Apr 2015 - Aug 2024
Contributions:184 pushes in 9 years 5 months
ml-learning/wayfinder
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
temporary website for LEGO wayfinder project
Contributions:2 PRs, 52 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
lego
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