Ferdi Alimadhi

Ferdi Alimadhi

Chief Technology Officer, Open Learning
Leadership
Engineering and Products
600 Technology Square, NE49-2nd Floor
Biography

Ferdi Alimadhi is the Chief Technology Officer at MIT Open Learning where he defines and drives the long-term technology vision and strategy for Open Learning, ensuring alignment with MIT's mission and objectives.

At MIT, he has spearheaded the ideation, design, and development of several educational products and platforms for different learning environments. From residential teaching to professional education and MOOCs, these products and platforms — including MITx Residential, MITx Online, MITx MicroMasters, MIT xPro, the next generation of MIT OpenCourseWare, and MIT Bootcamps — have reached millions of learners around the world. He is the founding member and lead of the MIT Learn platform, an institute-wide initiative to create a unified interface for all of MIT's non-degree offerings.

Before joining MIT, Ferdi worked at Harvard University. He is the original creator and project lead of OpenScholar project, an open-source SAAS platform for building academic websites designed specifically for higher education and used by hundreds of institutions worldwide.  

Ferdi is a member of Open Edx Technical Oversight Committee as the MIT representative. He has also worked as a product and engineering consultant for companies of different types and sizes. As an educator at The University of New York Tirana, the first private university in Albania, he was the founding member of the computer science department and taught different subjects.

Ferdi holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Tirana, a master's degree in computer science from the University of Amsterdam, and a master's in software engineering from Harvard University.